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• January Jobs Report: Hiring Ramps Up, Unemployment Falls
  Updated: 2/3/2012
  American employers substantially stepped up their hiring in January, bringing the unemployment rate down for the fifth month in a row. full story >
  
• PHH Arval Appoints Vice President, Truck Engineering
  Updated: 2/2/2012
  PHH Arval (Sparks, MD) named Lenny Pusdesris to the new position of vice president, truck engineering. full story >
  
• Gamber-Johnson Releases New Work Truck Console
  Updated: 2/2/2012
  Gamber-Johnson (Stevens Point, WI) announces a new work truck console that can be used in most trucks with bucket seats. full story >
  
• Crysteel Launches New Web Site
  Updated: 2/2/2012
  Dump body and hoist manufacturer Crysteel Manufacturing (Lake Crystal, MN) recently launched a new web site designed to maximize the interactive experience for end-users and distributors. full story >
  
• Johnson Refrigerated Truck Bodies Announces New Midwest Territory Sales Manager
  Updated: 2/1/2012
  Johnson Refrigerated Truck Bodies (Rice Lake, WI) welcomed Troy Guider, regional sales manager, to the sales department. full story >
  
• BAE Systems and Caterpillar Sign 20-Year Agreement
  Updated: 2/1/2012
  BAE Systems and Caterpillar, Inc. have signed a long-term supply agreement to collaborate on an energy-efficient parallel hybrid propulsion system for heavy-duty trucks. full story >
  
• Omaha Standard PALFINGER Announces New Quotation Specialist
  Updated: 2/1/2012
  Council Bluffs, IA-based Omaha Standard PALFINGER (OSP) announced that Tyler Lee has assumed the responsibilities of quotation specialist. full story >
  
• IMT Promotes Jim Hasty to Vice President - General Manager
  Updated: 2/1/2012
  Garner, IA-based Iowa Mold Tooling Co., Inc. (IMT), an Oshkosh Corporation company, promoted Jim Hasty to the position of vice president - general manager of IMT. full story >
  
• EPA Allows for Non-compliant 2012 and 2013 Engine Penalties
  Updated: 2/1/2012
  The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued an interim rule (IR) to make nonconformance penalties (NCP's) available to manufacturers of heavy-duty diesel engines in model years 2012 and 2013 for emissions of oxides of nitrogen (NOX). full story >
  
• Diesel Edges Up 0.2¢ to $3.85 a Gallon; Gasoline Gains a Nickel to $3.439
  Updated: 1/31/2012
  Diesel rose two-tenths of a cent to $3.85 a gallon, its third increase in four weeks, while gasoline gained a nickel, the Department of Energy said. full story >