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Industry Focus PEOPLE IN THE NEWS Following are personnel changes and announcements in the trucking industry: Meritor has made multiple staffi ng changes. The company has appointed Michael Boe to managing director, Aftermar- ket, Europe; Craig Cartmill to vice president, Aftermarket Americas; and Doug Wolma to general manager, Global Aftermarket Operations. Karmak, Inc. has named Duff Bell its new director of sales. Haldex has named Tim Shaw product manager for all remanufactured products produced in the Marion, N.C. remanufac- turing plant, and named Dan Dunkle- berger product manager for friction Bell products and remanufactured brake shoes for the company's network of friction centers. VIPAR Heavy Duty has named James McGuire director of business development with responsibility for stockholder development in the central U.S. Noregon Systems has added Mike Maxwell as sales man- ager – distribution, and George Farmer as sales solutions manager with a focus on customer retention. Phillips Industries has hired Perry Criscuolo as mid-Atlantic territory sales manager. BorgWarner has announced several staffi ng changes. It has appointed Ronald Hundzinski to chief fi nancial offi cer and James Verrier to the newly created posi- tion of president and chief operating offi - cer. Robin Adams also has been promoted to vice chairman of the board of directors. Bar's Products has named Max Douglas national sales manager, responsible for the U.S. and Canadian markets. Jacobs Vehicle Systems has appointed Thomas Howell as director of new technology. Howell Criscuolo ECONOMIC NEWS Th e following is economic news from the trucking industry: Th e American Trucking Associations announced its advanced seasonally adjusted For-Hire Truck Tonnage Index rose 0.5 percent in February aſt er falling 4.6 percent in January. Th e latest gain put the adjusted index at 119.3, up from January's level of 118.7. Compared with February 2011, the adjusted index was up 5.5 per- cent, better than January's 3.1 percent increase. and Mexico, was 11.5 percent higher in January 2012 than in January 2011, totaling $75.5 billion, accord- ing to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics. below February at 19,682 units for all major North American OEMs. March orders were 32 percent below the same month in 2011. Aſt er hiring about 20,000 new payroll employees in the past three months, trucking companies cut 1,900 jobs on a seasonally adjusted basis in March, according to the latest numbers released, by the Bureau of Labor Sta- tistics. Th e last time payroll employ- ment dropped month-to-month in for-hire trucking was August 2011. FTR's Trucking Conditions Index for February eased very slightly to a reading of 5.9. FTR says it is forecasting the February reading to be the low point for 2012 with strong month-over-month increases throughout the remainder of the year. Trade using surface transportation be- tween the United States and Canada 6 FTR Associates also has released pre- liminary data showing March Class 8 truck total net orders were 11 percent TRUCK PARTS & SERVICE | May 2012