Word: truck
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...country, responses varied greatly. New York State reported 100 inquiries a day and 27,400 registration forms already distributed. New England asked for an extra 5,000. Dallas has passed out 30,000, but Los Angeles only 500. New Orleans picked up two tons of weapons, Nashville a pickup truck full, Chicago, Detroit and the state of Montana none...
This year, there will be even more money to be divvied around, since makers of both light-panel and pickup trucks (55% of the 16 million on the road) and of the vastly more expensive behemoths of the highways will benefit from better sales. Trucking companies are pressing manufacturers for ever larger, more efficient, maintenance-free trucks and are willing to pay a higher initial cost to keep upkeep down. Last year, some 100,000 of the over-13-ton class were sold, mostly by Harvester, White Truck, Mack and CMC. The demand is such that their number is expected...
...truck manufacturers will produce a record 1,803,000 trucks and Jeeplike vehicles. Understandably, they are delighted about the present - a year of sales in excess of $4 billion-and see an even brighter future ahead. Said Ford President Semon Knudsen at the American Trucking Associations' convention last week: "We expect the total truck market to pass a 2,000,000 annual rate in the early 1970s and to reach...
Knudsen has good reason to gloat. For the first time since 1935, Ford trucks are expected to outsell the longtime leader, Chevrolet. By Nov. 10, Ford had sold 562,000 trucks, against Chevrolet's 548,000; it expects to reach an alltime record of 650,000 by Jan. 1. Yet Chevrolet should not feel too bad: its truck sales are expected to increase by 11% over last year...
More to Divide. The No. 1 producer of heavy-duty trucks, International Harvester, is likely to retain its third place in total volume (1967 sales: 167,000 units), ahead of Dodge (141,000), Kaiser Jeep (116,000), CMC (114,000), White Truck (24,000), Mack (16,000) and FWD (1,200). These nine manufacturers accounted for almost all of the 1,500,000 trucks sold in the U.S. last year, dividing a $3.6 billion market among themselves...