Heavy-duty truck OEM Navistar Inc. will now operate as International Motors LLC, maintaining Lisle, Ill. headquarters while expanding a North American market stake for parent company Traton SE, Munich. International Motors will focus on more than engineering and delivering truck and bus products, management notes. While vehicles remain the core of every customer interaction, a full International Motors solutions portfolio…
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McNeilus and Command Alkon delve, streamline in-cab telematics
Sources: McNeilus Truck & Manufacturing, Dodge Center; CP staff
Through a partnership formalized at ConExpo-Con/Agg 2017, concrete mixer and construction materials information technology market leaders McNeilus and Command Alkon seek to further integrate truck controls and fleet management software for North American ready mixed producers. Their initiative extends a FLEX Controls and TrackIt telematics platform integration the companies announced late last year at the Command Alkon User Conference.
Read MoreMack adds mixer truck data to fleet management service
Sources: Mack Trucks, Greensboro, N.C.; CP staff
A memorandum of understanding will see technology developer WheresMyConcrete program Mack Fleet Management Services options to improve ready mixed producers’ asset visibility and dispatch efficiency.
Read MoreFiveCubits measures up as newest Command Alkon division
Source: Command Alkon Inc., Birmingham, Ala.
Command Alkon has acquired Rosemont, Ill.-based FiveCubits, a [software as a service] SaaS-based fleet management and mobile computing solutions provider for ready mixed and bulk materials producers, trucking and hauling companies, and contractors.
Read MoreTwin Steers to Twin Shafts
Fleet management is one of the competencies positioning Raleigh, N.C., ready mixed, aggregate and asphalt producer Sunrock Group among the Carolinas’ stronger independent operators. A 2001 change to Allison 4600s in its rear discharge mixer truck specs made the group’s concrete brand, Carolina Sunrock, an early adopter of fleetwide automatic transmissions.
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