atHome Top Story (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
Sterling Trucks is eliminating one of its two remaining shifts and laying off another 720 workers as of November as the southwestern Ontario manufacturer joins the growing ranks of companies being squeezed by an economic slowdown in the U.S.
The Turner Report (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
Angry autoworkers confront MP Jeff Watson outside his office after Ottawa refused aid to the industry. While Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney was doing his best Thursday to talk up the economy, I was sitting on a TV set in Burlington with the Conservative MP for Windsor, where there’s as close to a depression as [...]
atHome Top Story (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
Canadians all over the country are profiting from the ongoing commodities boom and helping to rescue the economy from the throes of recession, says the Bank of Canada.
Fleet Owner RSS Feed (Free subscription) | 07/01/2008
Daimler Trucks North America (DTNA) has announced it will offer Cummins heavy- and medium-duty engines alongside its own Detroit Diesel and Mercedes-Benz engine lines, becoming the latest OEM to sell engines with both SCR and EGR technologies to meet 2010 EPA regulations
Fleet Owner RSS Feed (Free subscription) | 06/20/2008
Sterling Truck Corp. has manufactured its 250,000th truck, the company has announced
Straightline (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
Cummins Westport Inc. ("CWI") announced today that Sterling Trucks has launched a new Sterling® Set-Back 113, which is their first natural gas vehicle, and it uses the Cummins Westport ISL G engine. This engine, which displaces 8.9 liter, uses stoichiometric cooled-exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) technology. It offers the lowest emissions available in the industry without sacrificing top-level performance...
Autopia (Free subscription) | 05/08/2008
According the the U.S. Government's Energy Information Administration, diesel fuel is running $4.15 a gallon today. At that price, filling a semi truck's two fuel tanks (usually 150 gallons apiece) can cost more than $1200. And considering that a typical...
Fleet Owner RSS Feed (Free subscription) | 02/05/2008
Air disc brakes, collision warning and roll stability control (RSC) will be offered as new factory-installed options by Sterling Trucks, according to a company announcement here at the annual meeting of the Technology and Maintenance Council (TMC). The safety options will be available on the company's set-back axle models of the A-Line, and all L-Line and Acterra models
Fleet Owner RSS Feed (Free subscription) | 02/05/2008
Using the North American market to launch a new global engine platform, Sterling Trucks and Freightliner Trucks have begun taking orders for heavy-duty models powered by the 15-liter DD15 version of the new engine from Detroit Diesel
