Truck, Bus & Other Vehicle Manufacturing Industry Competitors

This venerable old MAN still shows considerable strength. MAN AG (founded in 1845) and its subsidiaries manufacture a variety of heavy equipment ranging from commercial vehicles to diesel engines for ships. MAN is one of Europe's largest truck makers as well as a leading supplier of equipment for newspaper printing presses and industrial compressors and turbines....

People can get a variety of food items by ordering à la carte, and mobile food vendors can get a variety of vehicles and equipment from All A Cart Manufacturing. The company builds and modifies carts, kiosks, step vans, and trailers to be used for food preparation and sales....

The flashing lights in your rear-view mirror just might be an American LaFrance product. The company manufactures a variety of emergency vehicle equipment, including fire trucks, tankers, ambulances, aerial ladders, fire pumps, and fire rescue boats. It serves markets in the US and Canada through six regional sales offices....

Ashok Leyland just keeps on trucking. Founded in 1948, the company is one of India's leading manufacturers of commercial vehicles such as trucks and buses, as well as defense and emergency vehicles. Operating six plants, Ashok Leyland also makes spare parts and engines for industrial or marine applications....

The company is Autocar, but its main product is a truck. Autocar makes heavy-duty low cab forward (LCF) trucks under the Xpeditor nameplate that are used primarily for garbage pickup. Typically, customers get an LCF truck that consists of a cab and a chassis and then add equipment from third-party manufacturers....

BT Industries manufactures and sells manually operated electric and counterbalanced warehouse trucks used for handling boxed goods and other materials. Its products include forklifts, pallet trucks, and stacker trucks. Other specialized machinery includes trucks designed to maneuver in narrow warehouse aisles....

Where there's smoke there's fire, and where there's fire there's E-ONE. E-ONE (also known as Emergency One) is a leading maker of fire and rescue vehicles. The company manufactures pumpers, tankers, aerial ladders and platforms, industrial trucks, and aircraft rescue firefighting equipment....

Stuff happens -- and the need to prevent, respond to, warn others about, and clean up that stuff means business for Federal Signal. The company makes a range of goods, divesting certain product lines since 2004 and narrowing its corporate organization from four groups to three....

Gillig makes heavy-duty buses for mass transit systems. The company offers two main models, the Phantom and the Low Floor, in multiple lengths and widths. Gillig produces mostly diesel-powered buses, but it also manufactures a variety of alternative-fuel models, including one that uses a hybrid diesel-electric engine made by General Motors....

GVW Group LLC (formerly Grand Vehicle Works Holdings) operates a diverse mix of four subsidiaries in the truck manufacturing, software and systems development, and engineering services sectors. GMW's Autocar unit makes Low Cab Forward trucks for use in the waste management, recycling, concrete mixer, and airport refueling markets....

If your company is on the go, it's probably using Iveco. The company is the UK arm of Iveco S.p.A., which is auto maker Fiat's commercial vehicles subsidiary. Products include distribution and construction vehicles, vans, and tractor units, as well as diesel engines for use in buses, boats, and trains....

Whether its beer from Bavaria or vino from Venice, European goods often get from point A to point B with a little help from Iveco S.p.A. A subsidiary of Italy's sprawling Fiat S.p.A. group of companies, Iveco is a manufacturer of commercial vehicles, fire and rescue vehicles, buses, specialty vehicles, and engines....

Leyland Trucks, which has laid claim to the roads in the UK and western Europe for more than 100 years, is also navigating into North America. Founded in 1896, the US-based PACCAR subsidiary (since 1998) makes about 17,000 heavy-duty trucks each year....

This M&M is more rugged than the candy coated confection that goes by the same name. Mahindra & Mahindra (M&M) is best known for utility vehicles and tractors in India, but the company is also active in both IT and financial services, steel processing, and infrastructure....

Talking trash is big business at McNeilus Companies. The company, which was founded in 1975, is a subsidiary of Oshkosh Truck that manufacturers garbage, concrete mixers, and other heavy duty construction vehicles. McNeilus also leases new vehicles and sells used ones as well through its Viking Truck & Equipment Sales unit....

A truckstop that serves sushi? The notion doesn't seem so odd to the folks at Mitsubishi Fuso Truck & Bus Corporation (MFTBC). The Japan-based company, a subsidiary of Daimler AG, is a leading manufacturer of light-, medium-, and heavy-duty trucks....

New Flyer Industries isn't just some token transit bus maker. The company is one of North America's largest bus manufacturers and its heavy-duty transit buses and shuttles (used by airports, car rental agencies, and universities) traverse roads from Vancouver to Miami....

If you believe in truth in advertising, then Nissan Diesel Motor is the real Titan when it comes to vehicles bearing the Nissan name. (But on the other hand, Nissan Diesel is controlled by AB Volvo and not the other Nissan.) Founded in 1935, Nissan Diesel manufactures buses and light, medium, and heavy-duty trucks....

In a unique arrangement of business services, Oakridge Holdings can offer customers support and service, whether they are flying high or lying low, above the ground or below it. Through two subsidiaries, (Oakridge Cemetery and Glen Oak Cemetery), it buries human remains, and through another (Stinar Corporation), it makes aviation ground support equipment (lifts, truck mounted stairways, water and catering trucks)....

The rubber meets the road at Obsidian Enterprises. The holding company's United Trailers and Classic Trailers subsidiaries make steel-framed trailers for hauling everything from race cars to ATVs. Obsidian's U.S. Rubber Reclaiming subsidiary reprocesses scrap tires and inner tubes to make reclaimed butyl rubber sheets that are used to make inner tubes and linings for tubeless tires....