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Partsmart goes E-commerce

Navistar became the first heavy duty truck and bus manufacturer to sell parts online to customers via an e-commerce web site. The web site is integrated into www.partsmartparts.com and the online store, which debuted March 8th, features hundreds of popular parts from the PARTSMART line. Parts orders placed online will be filled by the customer’s local International or IC Bus dealer.

Michael Cancelliere, senior vice president and general manager for Navistar Parts in North America said, “Navistar is taking a leadership position in e-commerce for heavy duty truck and bus parts. With a customer-friendly interface and the ability to order online 24/7, our new web site allows our dealers to extend their customer reach and makes it easier for customers to do business with us.”

The e-commerce site features a full product catalog and allows the user to select vehicle and engine model to determine the correct part for their need. “This new approach will definitely appeal to today’s internet-savvy customer,” said Nate Jolliff, director of parts operations integration for Navistar.

“This is the customer who may not regularly patronize a dealership for service, but has the knowledge and ability to know what parts are needed and how to install them. We’re connecting the customer with their local International and IC Bus dealers [Rush Truck Centers] through a seamless online ordering system.”

Lake City Trucks Adds New General Manager

IDAHO FALLS, ID March 15, 2010 Rush Truck Centers Trucks, LLC, a local International® Truck dealership, is proud to introduce a new general manager, Andy Spellman.  Andy will begin his new role as general manager of the Idaho Falls location on March 15, 2010.

Andy Spellman comes from within Rush Truck Centers, where he started as the body shop manager in Salt Rush Truck Centers, Utah and was later promoted to body shop director.  Andy has been with Lake City for six years.

Rush Truck Centers has represented International® Trucks in Idaho Falls and surrounding areas for 14 years.  The dealership moved into its current facility in 2008 allowing Rush Truck Centers to provide expanded services to its customers.  These services include expanded parts availability and service bays, new and used truck sales, and a full-service body shop with paint booth. 

March 10, 2010
Navistar Unveils International TerraStar Class 4/5 Work Truck

ST. LOUIS, Mar 10, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- For those looking for a powerful, rugged and reliable work truck, the search is over.

At a press event at the National Truck Equipment Association (NTEA) Work Truck Show, Navistar (NYSE: NAV) today unveiled the International(R) TerraStar(TM) Class 4/5 commercial truck. With a wide range of commercial-duty features--from its commercial-duty MaxxForce(R) 7 V-8 diesel engine to the largest, roomiest cab available--the International TerraStar sets a new standard in the Class 4/5 truck market.

"The International TerraStar comes from the same blood lines as the rest of our commercial truck line-up," said Jack Allen, president, Navistar's North American Truck Group. "Its commercial-duty design will change the game in the work truck market by offering one of the most capable, most versatile and most drivable trucks in its class."

At the heart of the new International TerraStar is its all-new 300 horsepower, 6.4-liter MaxxForce 7 V-8 engine, delivering 660 lb.-ft. torque. This engine features a compacted graphite iron (CGI) block which offers high strength without added weight. The MaxxForce 7 will be matched with a commercial-duty Allison 1000 transmission to optimize its power output.

The TerraStar features MaxxForce Advanced EGR emissions technology, the only no-hassle emissions technology in its class. With MaxxForce Advanced EGR, customers won't have the worry or inconvenience of finding or filling liquid urea. And, with no added SCR aftertreatment equipment, the TerraStar provides a clean and clear chassis for easy body and equipment mounting, not to mention less added weight.
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March 9,2010
GE and Navistar Announce U.S. Financing Alliance
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March 8, 2010
Navistar unveils E-commerce Web site with PARTSMART Line

Navistar became the first heavy duty truck and bus manufacturer to sell parts online to customers via an e-commerce website.  The website is integrated into www.partsmartparts.com and the online store, which debuted March 8th, features hundreds of popular parts from the PARTSMART line.  Parts orders placed online will be filled by the customer’s local International or IC Bus dealer.
Michael Cancelliere, senior vice president and general manager for Navistar Parts in North America said, “Navistar is taking a leadership osition in e-commerce for heavy duty truck and bus parts.  With a customer-friendly interface and the ability to order online 24/7, our new website allows our dealers to extend their customer reach and makes it easier for customers to do business with us.”
The e-commerce site features a full product catalog and allows the user to select vehicle and engine model to determine the correct part for their need.  “This new approach will definitely appeal to today’s internet-savvy customer,” said Nate Jolliff, director of parts operations integration for Navistar.  “This is the customer who may not regularly patronize a dealership for service, but has the knowledge and ability to know what parts are needed and how to install them.  We’re connecting the customer with their local International and IC Bus dealers through a seamless online ordering system.”

CNET News- February 16, 2010

Devices under testing at NASA may save trucking billions
by Daniel Terdiman

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--The American trucking industry could save as much as $10 billion, or 3.4 billion gallons of diesel fuel, a year if devices being tested in a joint public-private initiative at the world's-largest wind tunnel here are rolled out nationally.

Over the last few weeks, a partnership between the Lawrence Livermore National Lab, the U.S. Air Force, the NASA Ames Research Center, and the conglomerate, Navistar, has been conducting tests on the aerodynamics of tractor-trailer trucks. The findings indicate that new devices could be added onto the nation's thousands of trucks that could increase fuel efficiency on the vehicles by 12 percent.

The physical tests were conducted at the National Full-Scale Aerodynamics Complex--the world's largest wind tunnel--at NASA's Ames Research Center here, as well as on supercomputers at the Lawrence Livermore National Lab. The idea behind the partnership was to find a way to help the trucking industry--and by extension, almost every other segment of the economy--cut costs on fuel, and at the same time, reduce carbon-dioxide emissions.

The impact on the environment of the 12 percent increase in fuel efficiency, explained Lawrence Livermore National Lab (LLNL) Director George Miller, would be an annual reduction of carbon-dioxide emissions of 36 million tons.

The efficiency gains will come as a result of a series of novel devices, effectively skirts that protrude off the rear or drop below a trailer that are designed to reduce the wake size of a trailer, said LLNL senior scientist Kambiz Salari. The tests have been conducted to find the most efficient combination of the devices.

According to Salari, the U.S. Department of Energy will take the results of the wind-tunnel tests and apply them to a series of road tests and other experiments to ensure that the findings are applicable to industry. If so, the devices could be made available to private trucking companies within two and a half to three years, he said.

All told, Salari added, the findings are based on 15 years of research.

"Think of a trailer as a box," Salari said. "We're trying to trick the (air) flow into thinking the box is more aerodynamic."

The idea, he said, was to figure out how best to reduce drag that comes when air hits different parts of a truck as it speeds down a highway. By covering certain parts of the truck, drag can be reduced, Salari explained.

And while much of the flow physics research into finding the efficiencies was conducted on LLNL's Linux cluster supercomputers, the wind tunnel tests were necessary for a "sanity check" for the researchers, Salari said.

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Navistar and Clean Air Power team on dual-fuel MaxxForce 13

February 12, 2010 - Navistar Inc. has signed an agreement with Clean Air Power to provide a duel-fuel Navistar MaxxForce 13 big bore engine that will run on natural gas and clean diesel fuel. “This agreement supports Navistar’s strategy of product leadership, offering our customers differentiated products merging the unique skills of Clean Air Power in natural gas combustion and the knowledge Navistar has in diesel combustion,” said Jack Allen, president of Navistar’s North American Truck Group.

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