Matt Crafton and the No. 88 Menards/Tarkett team head to sunny Homestead-Miami Speedway for the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series finale. Crafton has 10 previous starts at the 1.5-mile oval, with two top-five and five top-10 finishes and an average finish of 11.4. Crafton earned his best finish at the track when he was the runner up in the 2009 Homestead event, and he took the sixth spot in his last visit to the South Florida facility.
U.S. retail sales of 17,424 Class 8 trucks in October were up from the 15,937 sold in September and double the number sold a year ago, when only 8,714 Class 8 trucks were sold in October 2010.
Surrey-based Daly Plant Hire has taken delivery of a new Volvo A25F articulated hauler, bringing its mixed fleet of C, D , E and now F series haulers to a total of fifteen.
Canada’s military is planning to purchase thousands of new trucks in a deal estimated to be worth more than $750 million, even as an earlier announced truck program has fallen years behind schedule.
With demand for heavy-duty trucks expected to rise sharply through 2012, Navistar International Corp. (NAV) is coming under increasing pressure to resume production at an idled Canadian assembly plant.