International Truck and Engine Corporation, a Navistar company (Other OTC: NAVZ), recently hosted a group of International representatives, dealers and customers from Mexico for a team building and customer appreciation event at its engine plant in Huntsville, Ala., August 9 -11, 2007.
The event began Thursday, August 9, with a plant tour at International Diesel of Alabama, which manufactures the MaxxForce 5 and MaxxForce 7 diesel engines, and concluded on Saturday with a trip to Nashville Superspeedway to watch David Starr, driver of the #10 MaxxForce International Diesel Power truck, race. As a show of appreciation to the group from Mexico, the truck featured a special decal, the Mexican flag and a greeting in Spanish, for the race. The #10 MaxxForce International Diesel Power truck team took 4th in the race, their best finish of the 2007 season.
Elias Arenas (center), general manager Camiones Especiales, and Carols Martinez Centeno (right), ownet of TMC, shake hands with #10 MaxxForce International Diesel truck driver, David Starr, before the NCTS race in Nashville, Tenn., on August 11, 2007.
International representatives, dealers and customers from Mexico pose outside of International Diesel of Alabama on August 9, 2007. The group toured the plant as a part of a team building and customer appreciation event sponsored by International.
International representatives, dealers and customers from Mexico pose in front of the #10 MaxxForce International Diesel truck before the NCTS race in Nashville, Tenn., on August 11, 2007. The group was there as a part of a team building and customer appreciation event sponsored by International.
As a welcome to its representatives, dealers and customers from Mexico, International Truck and Engine displayed the Mexican flag with a greeting on its #10 MaxxForce International Diesel race truck for the NCTS race in Nashville, Tenn., on August 11, 2007
Joaquin Iniguez (left), marketing director, Arturo Gomez, national tractortruck manager, and Cecilia Merino, marketing and communications, International Mexicao, look at a section of the engine line during a plant tour at International Diesel of Alabama on August 9, 2007
Uriel Parra, regional manager-medium trucks, International Mexico, gets a pit crew experience as Bill Cahill, a #10 MaxxForce International Diesel pit crew member, looks on. Parra and a number of other representatives from dealers and customers in Mexico attended the NCTS race on August 11, 2007 as a part of a team building and customer appreciation event sponsored by International.