The U.S. Department of Agriculture estimates it will take roughly 2 million train carloads, 50 thousand barge loads and 20 million truck loads to move 20 billion gallons of ethanol to market.
The Department of Transportation took a hard look and recently eliminated over 32 million annual forms, thus saving tens of millions of dollars in costs annually while also eliminating 1.6 million hours that truck drivers spend on administrative work each year.
By 2004, 1 million units of North American light-truck capacity will be added, bringing the total to 10.4 million.
The growth momentum of the heavy-duty truck sector has been declining since 2010 when China surpassed the million-vehicle mark in terms of heavy-duty truck sales.
The country's central location is a major plus: 350 million people live within a day's truck drive of Slovakia.
Car-shopping website Edmunds.com forecasts that U.S. car and light truck sales in November totaled 1.1 million vehicles.
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Japanese auto and truck plants produced a grand total of 9.6 million vehicles in 2010, compared to 7.7 million vehicles assembled in the United States.
Now General Instrument has 1.5 million digital set-tops in use, while the Explorers are barely off the truck.
Around 2.2 million Transits have been made in Southampton since 1972 while the first vehicle, the Model AA truck, rolled off the Dagenham production line in October 1931.
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Auto and light truck production hit a new low in this expansion in July, at 10.2 million assemblies (annual rate).
The trend helped double the full-size pickup truck market in the U.S. in the past decade to 2.2 million vehicles a year--and means pickup trucks come with four big doors and family-friendly options.
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