Wet and Icy Roads Pose Corrosive Threat to Chassis
Because of bad weather, the winter months are especially dangerous for truckers. With an abundance of roadside jackknifes and overturned trailers, motor carriers everywhere are ready to kiss the ice and snow goodbye. Read More
March 2020 Dispatch
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CIE Applies Innovation and Technology to the Intermodal Chassis Industry
When manufacturers cut costs, they might be tempted to sacrifice quality in their products. But CIE Manufacturing values quality in its chassis over cost, CEO Frank Sonzala insists. For example, when LED lights became popular in the trucking industry, “The first thing we did was change the chassis by putting in all the newest technology,” […]
CIMC Intermodal Equipment Rebranded to CIE Manufacturing
The intermodal industry in the US, much like CIE Manufacturing, is set to expand and flourish in the 2020 decade, according to President and CEO, Frank Sonzala. The skeletal trailer specialist sees the name change as a positive first step towards bringing manufacturing back to the Land of Opportunity. Read More
CIE Manufacturing Unveils New Chassis Line
CIE Manufacturing presented the Revere, a new line of chassis, Feb. 24 at American Trucking Associations’ Technology & Maintenance Council annual meeting. Read More
Trade War Reshapes CIE
The chief executive of a South Gate-based truck chassis manufacturer, he’s transferring about a third of his company’s production from China to the United States, a move he says will create about 275 local jobs. Read More
February 2020 Dispatch
CIMC Intermodal Making Changes
Company rebrands as CIE Manufacturing as it ramps up North American chassis production at two US facilities. Read More
CIE Manufacturing Brings Its Chassis Manufacturing To The U.S.
Courtesy of Jim Vinoski at Forbes.Com Entrepreneur Malcolm McLean, frustrated with the snail-like swiftness of cargo handling he witnessed when he first got into trucking in the 1930s, invented the shipping container in 1956. Little did he know back then that he would wind up changing the whole world. Today the biggest maker of chassis […]
We are the Champions!
A Day in the Park “Muchachos, se el magnifico campeon de hoy!” (Men, be the magnificent champion of today!) On December 15, 2019, the scene was seemingly that of any other Sunday at El Dorado Park in Long Beach California. The sun was shining, the children were playing, the music was coming through the speakers, […]