Fuso, the brand name of Mitsubishi Fuso Truck & Bus Corporation and Chevrolet, which is the brand name given to trucks sold in Ecuador imported from Isuzu Motors Ltd in Japan, have both announced investments upgrading their range of trucks in order to try and expand their respective market shares in the country and region.

Divemotor Peru Ltda and representative of Mercedes-Benz in the Peruvian market for the past 25 years, has introduced Euro V medium-duty trucks to the market despite there being no current requirement to do so.

Phillipp Schiemer, the president of Mercedes-Benz do Brasil Ltda and CEO of Latin America, ahead of the Fenatrans Show this month announced the New Actros truck, which is to be launched in 2020, would revolutionize the extra-heavy vehicle segment in Brazil and provide customers with the smartest, most secure, connected, and efficient model of all time.

Mitsubishi Fuso Truck and Bus Corporation introduced six new variants of its medium-duty Fighter truck at the Gaikindo Indonesia International Auto Show in Jakarta in July.

Scania Commercial Vehicles India Pvt Ltd - a wholly owned subsidiary of Scania AB - has launched its next generation XT range of mining and construction trucks in India.

Commercial vehicle manufacturer, VE Commercial Vehicles Limited - the commercial vehicle manufacturing joint venture and subsidiary of Sweden’s Volvo AB and Eicher Motors Ltd of Gurugram - has revealed a new range of BS VI Eicher Pro 2000 series light-duty trucks comprising the Eicher Pro 2049 and Eicher Pro 2095XP.

Tata Motors Ltd of Mumbai, has launched Ultra Business Utility Vehicles (BUV) range in Vietnam; the truck has been specially designed to meet changing customer needs in the light and intermediate commercial vehicle segments.

BMB Mode Center Ltda, the vehicle modification specialist for Volkswagen Trucks and Buses, has just completed 18 years of operations, manufacturing some 135,000 custom-built bodies in that timeframe.

Kennis, a brand of material handling specialist, Hyva BV, headquartered in Alphen aan den Rijn, introduced its Hyva Kennis e-Power rolloader crane at the Bauma event in Munich early this month.

Pailton Engineering, the steering system manufacturer, has invested in a low volume production cell specifically for small batch orders and pre-production sample manufacturing.