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• Toyota teams with Hino to test Breathalyzer Interloc System

  BNET - 2009-09-01

  Tokyo—TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION TMC and Hino Motors, Ltd. Hino  announce that, as part of their efforts to eradicate drunk driving, they will jointly test a  breath-alcohol ignition-interlock system* under development by TMC. The system,  aimed to aid companies and organizations better manage their fleet-vehicle operations,  will be installed on selected...

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• Officials Hope to Rebound from Benson Closing

  - 2007-09-14

  Wood County officials soon should have a new tenant for Benson International's idled Mineral Wells plant.Development Director Keith Burdette said the sale of the property, still being finalized, had been in the works long before the Kentucky-based truck and trailer manufacturer announced it was terminating its West Virginia operation.Local leaders,...

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• Hino Motors to open assembly plant

  - 2007-09-01

  Hino Motors Manufacturing U.S.A. Inc. will assemble medium- and heavy-duty trucks in Williamstown, W. Va. The new operation will be the first assembly plant for Hino Motors in the U.S. The company said it will invest $8.6 million to upgrade a 194,000-sq.-ft. plant and install manufacturing equipment. Operations are expected...

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• Isuzu and Hino Reach Basic Agreement on Jointly Developing Exhaust Gas Aftertreatment System and Cabins of Heavy-Duty Trucks

  - 2007-08-28

  Tokyo, Japan, Aug 27, 2007 - JCN Newswire - Isuzu Motors Limited (TSE: 7202) and Hino Motors, Ltd. (TSE: 7205) today have come to a basic agreement regarding the joint development of exhaust gas aftertreatment system for diesel engines and cabins of heavy-duty trucks. This basic agreement will enable...

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• Hino Announces Truck Manufacturing JV in Columbia

  - 2007-08-01

  Tokyo, Aug 1, 2007 - JCN - Hino Motors, announced a joint- venture agreement with Mitsui & Co and Didacol., S.A. a distributor representing Hino in Colombia, to establish a truck manufacturing company in Colombia. The new joint venture, named Hino Motors Manufacturing Colombia, S.A., will have its...

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• Hino Plant Announcement Brings Hope to Williamstown

  - 2007-06-29

  WILLIAMSTOWN - For the past eight months, officials in Wood County have worked hard to bring an international company to their community.And now that Hino Motors Manufacturing U.S.A. Inc. has announced it will open an assembly plant in Williamstown, those public officials are not planning to rest on their laurels."We're...

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• Governor Announces Japan's Hino Motors to Open Truck Assembly Plant in Williamstown

  - 2007-06-25

  To: TRANSPORTATION EDITORSContact: Lara Ramsburg, +1-304-558-2000, for Toyota WILLIAMSTOWN, W.Va., June 25 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- At a ceremony today, Gov. Joe Manchin joined Hideichiro Chikahiro, president of Hino Motors Manufacturing U.S.A. Inc. HMMUSA, Sen. Jay Rockefeller and local officials to announce that the company will assemble medium and heavy-duty trucks here....

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• Hino U.S. Sales Up, but Corporate Profits Down

  - 2007-06-01

  Hino Trucks, the U.S.-based marketing arm of the Japanese truck maker, said it recorded 6,595 retail truck sales in its fiscal year that ended March 31, a 39% increase from the prior fiscal year and the highest sales yet, Bloomberg News reported. However, the parent company, Hino Motors Ltd., which...

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• Hino Truck Launch.(Brief article)

  - 2007-01-15

  Staff Hino Trucks, a Toyota Group company, introduced their 2008 model line to dealers and fleet managers from Texas and from as far away as Kansas City during a launch event at Texas Stadium in Irving this past November. ...

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• TruckMax Expands Into Ft. Pierce.

  - 2006-11-20

  Staff Miami-based TruckMax, a medium-duty commercial truck dealer and the country's No. 1 commercial truck dealer for HINO Motors, an affiliate of The Toyota Motor Corporation, has announced its expansion into Ft. Pierce, Fla. Led by automotive...

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