Sales of medium and heavy commercial vehicles (M&HCV) are expected to get a boost in December as pre-buying of trucks ahead of the January 1 deadline for rolling out commercial vehicles with air-conditioned cabins (or ventilation systems) is expected to kick in.

Increased truck sales, new models push Leyland's share to 34%, from 30.2% in the same quarter a year before. Among the top three commercial vehicle (CV) makers, only Ashok Leyland gained market share in the medium and heavy (M&HCV) segment during the December quarter. The other two, Tata Motors and Eicher, saw a dip.

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Homegrown auto major Tata Motors today launched its new pick-up vehicle Tata Xenon Yodha with price starting at Rs 6.05 lakh. The pick-up, which is endorsed by Bollywood star Akshay Kumar -- the company's brand ambassador for its commercial vehicles division -- is available in multiple variants of 4x2 and 4x4 and in single and double cab options, the company said in a statement. Powered by a 3 litre diesel engine, the new Tata Xenon Yodha is available in both BS III and BS IV compliant versions.

NEW DELHI: Tata MotorsBSE -0.24 % today roped in Bollywood star Akshay Kumar as brand ambassador for its commercial vehicle (CV) business unit. "Indian cinema's 'original Khiladi' will make his blockbuster entry in this new role at the launch of Tata Motors' latest offering in commercial vehicles, slated in January 2017," the company said in a statement.

Sales of medium and heavy commercial vehicles (MHCVs) are estimated to have declined by 10-15% to 16,000-17,000 units in November after the government demonetised high-value notes, with industry experts revising downwards the growth forecast for the segment for the entire financial year. According to estimates available with ratings agency CrisilBSE 1.44 %, overall sales in the commercial vehicle segment (MHCVs and light commercial vehicles or LCVs) was under the 40,000-mark in November.

The Hinduja Group's flagship firm Ashok LeylandBSE 0.97 % said on Friday that it has completed the acquisition of Nissan Motor Co.'s stake in three joint-ventures between the two companies — Ashok Leyland Nissan-Vehicles Ltd, Nissan-Ashok Leyland Powertrain Ltd and Nissan-Ashok Leyland Technologies Ltd. Ashok Leyland and Nissan had announced an arrangement under which Nissan would transfer its ownership in the three units to Ashok Leyland subject to statutory approvals in September. "With all necessary statutory approvals now in place the acquisition was completed for a consolidated consideration of Rs 3 paid by Ashok Leyland for all the shares of the three JVs," Ashok Leyland said in a statement.

Starting 1 April 2017, drivers of new Indian trucks won’t have to suffer the experience of driving in an open cabin, braving the intense cold of Ladakh or the extreme heat of Rajasthan. The government, through an amendment to the Motor Vehicle Act, 1988, has made it mandatory for manufacturers and the so-called truck body-builders to fit air-conditioners in the cabin in all new trucks sold from the start of the next financial year.

Sales of medium and heavy trucks picked up in October after three straight months of decline, suggesting an improvement in the macroeconomic scenario as demand in the segment is seen as a barometer of economic activity. Sales of these trucks with payload capacity of at least 7.5 tonnes are estimated to have increased 12.7% from a year earlier to 23,874 in the past month, said industry sources. Stable freight rates and increased load availability have helped push sales last month, with some replacement demand also kicking in, manufacturers said.

VE Commercial Vehicles today reported 14.43 per cent increase in total sales in October at 4,560 units as compared with 3,985 units in the same period last year. The company, a joint venture between Sweden's Volvo Group and Eicher Motors, said total sales of Eicher-branded trucks and buses increased by 15.44 per cent to 4,449 units in October compared with 3,854 units in the corresponding month last year.

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Magna International, Canada's giant auto parts supplier, expects to open 29 new plants in several countries including in India by 2019 as it races to meet the demand for new high-tech driver assistance technologies. Jim Tobin, Magna's chief marketing officer, said yesterday that Magna plans to build nine new plants in China. Four of them will open this year and five more are scheduled over the next two years.

In the first real-world commercial use of autonomous trucking, some 45,000 cans of Budweiser beer arrived late last week to a warehouse after traveling over 120 highway miles in a self-driving truck with no driver at the wheel, executives from Uber and Anheuser-Busch said. Otto, the self-driving truck subsidiary of Uber, shipped a truckload of Budweiser from Fort Collins, Colorado to Colorado Springs last Thursday with the driver monitoring from the truck's sleeper berth for the entire two-hour journey, Otto's co-founder Lior Ron and Anheuser-Busch's senior director of logistics strategy, James Sembrot, told Reuters on Friday.

Alarmed by the high incidence of accidents involving trucks, logistics firms are trying new ways of long haul transportation that will cut down the work load of drivers, a prime cause of accidents involving heavy vehicles. The idea is to prevent driver fatigue by fixing their work to covering a limited distance, 250 km in the case of many companies, using a new operational method called Truncheon, a truck pilot management system.

Alarmed by the high incidence of accidents involving trucks, logistics firms are trying new ways of long haul transportation that will cut down the work load of drivers, a prime cause of accidents involving heavy vehicles. The idea is to prevent driver fatigue by fixing their work to covering a limited distance, 250 km in the case of many companies, using a new operational method called Truncheon, a truck pilot management system.