Autocar

Founder shares the back story of what happened at Romeo Power

Michael Patterson is a serial entrepreneur who has an inscribed baseball bat for every company he starts, grows and sells. His latest move: taking over 76-year-old Crane Carrier Co. to introduce battery-electric refuse trucks under the name Battle Motors. He has a bat for it too.

Serial entrepreneur flips the script

Michael Patterson has little to prove in the world of entrepreneurship. He has started and sold four companies. For each, the 54-year-old Patterson has an inscribed baseball bat...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/serial-entrepreneur-tells-back-story-of-spac-sponsored-romeo-power

FreightWaves Classics/Fallen Flags: Crown Steel Products pioneered sleeper cabs and other innovations

A White tractor with a sleeper. (Photo: Historic Commercial Vehicle Club of Australia Inc.)

Overview

Between 1928 and 2001 the town of Orrville, Ohio, was the home of Crown Steel Products, which supplied day cabs, sleeper cabs and quad cabs to many of the nation’s truck manufacturers. It also manufactured “enclosed operator cabs for regional manufacturers of farm and construction equipment and also offered utility boxes and other types of truck equipment and accessories.”

Crown Steel Products was founded in 1940 by Julius Fejes (February 14, 1910 – March 24, 2001) to supply pressed...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/freightwaves-classicsfallen-flags-crown-steel-products-pioneered-sleeper-cabs-and-other-innovations

FreightWaves Classics: Autocar builds severe-duty trucks

A new Autocar tractor sits proudly, ready to go to work. (Photo: Autocar)

GVW Group LLC is an industrial holding company founded in 1993. It invests in, grows and provides strategic expertise for “scalable early stage, high growth and mid-sized businesses.”

The industries it currently has holdings in include manufacturing, distribution, technology, big data, engineering and energy efficiency.

The company bought Autocar and the Xpeditor truck model from Volvo Trucks North America in 2001 and formed Autocar, LLC, a company that began in Pittsburgh in 1897. Autocar’s...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/freightwaves-classics-autocar-builds-severe-duty-trucks

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