Overdrive Magazine | Trucking Business News & Owner Operator Info
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August 2015 | Overdrive | 17 Untitled-11 1 7/10/15 8:35 AM A PROPOSAL TO REQUIRE single-unit trucks to be equipped with energy-absorb- ing rear-impact or underride guards to help protect car occupants from death and injury in rear-impact crashes cleared the White House Office of Management and Budget last month. VOLVO TRUCKS OF NORTH AMERICA requested an exemp- tion from the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration to allow the placement of rain and ambient light detection sensors on its trucks lower in the windshield than currently permitted by regulations. The truck maker said the exemp- tion would allow it to add the sensors as an option. CATERPILLAR AND NAVISTAR are ending their on-highway truck production partnership. Caterpillar will venture out on its own, moving production of Cat C-series trucks to a facility in Victoria, Texas. Navistar announced it will launch a new line of premi- um PayStar vocational trucks in early 2016, using some of the shared technologies and intellectual property from its venture with Caterpillar. NAVISTAR AND VOLVO TRUCKS announced last month they will be sitting out the 2016 Mid-America Trucking Show and intend to return in 2017. The announcements came two months after Daimler Trucks announced the same thing. FOUR PEOPLE were indict- ed in U.S. District Court in Orlando, Fla., on conspiracy charges related to the unlawful production of Florida driver's licenses and commercial driv- ers' licenses.