Articles by Jon Thomson

Scania has announced a record result for the first nine months of this year, a 15 per cent increase over the same period in 2016 with the Swedish Volkswagen subsidiary revealing net sales of the […]

Take a look at our latest video road test of the Iveco Eurocargo E6. Jon Thomson climbs behind the wheel for a  drive of Iveco’s medium duty truck, which brings a lot of good innovations, […]

Like Victor Kiam and the shaver company, Aussie bus operator, Transit Systems liked the US on demand bus operation Bridj so much it decided to buy it. Bridj originally was a US based company that […]

Isuzu has announced that Nic Topping will take on the role of product development manager for the company in Australia. Topping is a refugee from Ford Australia and moves to the role at Isuzu from […]

Well known truck industry identity, Peter Langworthy has announced he will be stepping down as managing director of Dana at the end of the year. It is fair to say that during his seven year […]

UD highlighted its heavy duty line-up at this year’s Tokyo Motor Show with its new Quon and Quester heavy-duty trucks, particularly launching the new Quon prime mover/tractor model. Like their counterparts at Hino UD also […]

Hino played a safe straight bat at this year’s Tokyo Motor Show with not even the hint of an electric truck anywhere in sight, although the Toyota owned commercial vehicle maker did have an electric […]

The theme of the 45th Tokyo Motor Show was ‘Beyond The Motor’ and in terms of motive force at the Show it was certainly ‘Beyond the internal combustion Motor!’ with the electricification of trucks and […]