Trucks Will Be Ready, Builders Say

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HOENIX — Three of the top truck manufacturing executives in North America assured their customers that they would produce lower-emissions vehicles in plenty of time to meet new U.S. pollution rules, but didn’t agree on how they would do so.

The three, whose companies produce some 80% of the Class 8 trucks made in the United States, told the overflow crowd at the Diesel Engine Emissions Summit that they would supply trucks well before the new rules created by the Environmental Protection Agency go into effect for model year 2007.

“We will be ready,” said Michel Gigou, president of Volvo Trucks North America and chairman of its sister company Mack Trucks Inc., both of which are units of the Swedish truck maker Volvo AB.

“We are on pace for the 2006 launch,” said Daniel Ustian, chief executive officer of Navistar International Corp.

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