relocation. Caterpillar Inc., announced this week it would be moving its global headquarters to the Dallas-Fort Worth Area. Caterpillar is now the 2 nd large company to announce a move from theChicago area in the last 60 days. Back in May, Boeing announce it was moving its headquartersto Arlington, Virginia.Despite the moves, both companies have
With car makers constantly looking for new eco-friendly solutions to gas powered vehicles, Yamaha and Toyota teamed up to develop a new experimental Hydrogen fueled V8 engine. The two companies have teamed up before on other collaborations including a V10 engine used in the Lexus LFA. The performance of this new V8 engine looks to
The Cleveland Browns have the fifth most fourth down attempts in the NFL but are 26th out of 32 teams on fourth down conversions. The analytics, apparently, tell coach Stefanski to go for it on fourth down rather than punting. But doesn’t the team’s consistent failure on fourth down change the analytics? Or at least
Freight rates are down year over year for the last six months in the US. And because 2018 was such a strong year for the freight industry many new trucks were ordered and freight companies expanded capacity. So too much capacity and not enough freight has led to much lower prices.Read more from businessinsider.com
Total Lift Truck MarketThe global lift truck market grew by 10.2% in 2018 to 1.5 million units. All lift truck classes saw gains with the largest gains coming from Class III products – Electric Motor Hand or Hand-Rider Trucks.US factory shipments of forklift trucks rose 9.29% from 212,002 total units in 2017 to 231,696 total
Goldman’s 2019 Global Economic Outlook was recently published. Here are a few of the points and link to the full report: Goldman Sachs – Landing The Plane Global economic growth expected to slow to 3.5% in 2019 from 3.8% in 2018. Risk of a recession will grow after 2019. When 2018 is in the books
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