This month (August) Peterbilt Motors Company (a truck manufacturing subsidiary of Paccar Inc) celebrates its 40th year of operation and production at its site and headquarters in Denton, Texas.

Moving floor specialist, Cargo Floor NV is advising customers of a change to its pressure filter.

Volvo Trucks North America Inc has announced it is to collaborate with body fabrications specialist, Galfab LLC to make roll-off bodies available for installation at the Fontaine Modification facility next to Volvo Trucks’ Dublin, Virginia factory.

EvoBus Schweiz AG has moved to brand new premises in Winterthur, which bundles its entire know-how all together into one location.

Last month saw the California Air Resources Board adopt a new rule requiring truck manufacturers to transition from diesel trucks and vans to electric zero-emission trucks beginning in 2024.

Two concessions granted to Transdev-Connexxion are calling on electric charging provider, Heliox BV to provide fast charging infrastructure for its Haarlem-IJmond and Amstelland-Meerlanden operations.

Cummins Inc has agreed to form a joint venture with Dutch startup, NPROXX bv, a specialist in hydrogen storage and transportation, for hydrogen storage tanks with facilities in The Netherlands and Germany.

Following the formation of Marcopolo Next, a new division of bus and coach body builder, Marcopolo SA, set up at the start of the year to work start-up companies to develop new technologies, the company says its focus has been on developing biosafety solutions to make public transport safer from viral contamination.

Fontaine Modification Company, a division of Fontaine, in March opened a facility in Detroit for converting Ford medium-duty truck chassis to electric vehicles in addition to working on conventionally powered trucks, according to Fontaine truck and EV president, Pat Griffin.

Toyota Motor Corporation says it has developed a new world  first ‘stamp-type plating’ technology for metal coatings.

Solaris Bus & Coach SA is to supply the first electric school bus in Poland.

A project initiated by three Dutch companies some 18 months ago to meet increasing demand for full electric RCVs in urban areas has resulted development of the first 100% full electric Geesink RCV on GINAF E3123 chassis.