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VENCO VENTURO ANNOUNCES CHANGES TO LEADERSHIP TEAM

Several corporate roles filled at the 71-year-old company. Cincinnati, Ohio, June 22, 2023 – Venco Venturo®, an industry leader in the manufacturing, service and sales of work-ready service cranes, truck bodies, hoists and accessories since 1952, have made several changes to its leadership team.  The moves come as current President/Owner...

CVBSummit: The Time is NOW

CVBSummit: The Time is NOW

If you’ve been thinking about your commercial business and ways to improve it – increase your number of customers, boost your bottom line, add new products and services – that’s great. But if that’s the only step you’ve taken, then you might want to take heed of this quote: “You...

CVBSummit: Expanding Your Horizons

Imagine if your primary business was predicated on vehicles sustaining body damage that then required repairs. What would happen if suddenly these cars and trucks weren’t on the road, and therefore weren’t running into each other (or other objects)? While we frequently have short memories – and this can certainly...

AltFuel: The Song Remains The Same

By Ryan Day, Assistant Editor For all the hoopla surrounding EVs, self-driving vehicles, and other underlying technology that’s hitting the streets today, there really is “nothing new under the Sun.” Sayings like that and “The more things change, the more they stay the same”  have become cliches for a reason....

How to Think About Commercial Vehicles In Our Futurish World

When discussing how to think about the future of commercial vehicles, it’s pretty clear that whatever we thought about commercial vehicles in the past is about to change—dramatically. Whether we’re talking about new technologies, new powertrains, new fuels, or new legislation and regulations, everything is going through a drastic transformation....

THE ALWAYS APPEALING TREND OF BEST-IN-CLASS

Long after the first predictions were made of how solar or wind power or rechargeable batteries would replace fossil fuels, gasoline and diesel engines are still the predominant energy source in commercial work trucks. Those great ideas are coming but they are not here yet. First something becomes possible, then...

The Elementary School Entrepreneur

The 10-year journey of C+I Services, LLC – always doing more with less In 2013, Christian Schloegel was a fifth grader living in a small suburb of Chicago, IL. He reinvested the money he had earned from snow shoveling in prior winters and purchased a push mower to start cutting...

Coach Ken: The Perfect Storm

When climate conditions are at a certain point in tropical waters the weather is perfect for tropical cyclones, also called hurricanes, that are of such a destructive force that the storm destroys thousands of homes and structures, as well as human life. In the business world we have just experienced...

Commercial Propane Vehicle Outlook for 2023

In the article Commercial EV Outlook for 2023[1] , we explored  the demand for vehicles using fuels other than gas or diesel, otherwise known as alternative fuel (alt-fuel), and how the trend to create cleaner transportation systems is here to stay. In this article, we’ll look at the pros and cons...

FORD ANNOUNCES THREE-YEAR HYDROGEN FUEL CELL E-TRANSIT TRIAL

·Ford leads innovation consortium testing hydrogen fuel cell technology on all-electric E-Transit ·Delivery van operators to benefit from zero-emission vehicle’s extended range and quicker refuelling ·Small UK-based prototype fleet to run as part of wider alternative fuel research project ·Vehicle conversion by Ford Pro commercial experts Ford is spearheading research...