Articles by Jon Thomson

Electric trucks are flavour of the month and as previously reported there’s no shortage of models on their way like the e-Canter or  Merc’s Urban eTruck. German campervan manufacturer Dethleffs has taken an innovative approach […]

Diesel giant Cummins has given us a glimpse of its future with the unveiling of its fully electric Class 7 truck. While the company is continuing to find efficiencies in its core engine offerings with […]

The American Truck market appears to be in recovery mode with Freightliner announcing a new logistics centre in Cleveland. Daimler has called back 50 staff that it initially let go due to a reduction in […]

Semi-autonomous trucks will be trialled on United Kingdom highways from 2018 following the recent successful trials elsewhere in Europe and in the USA. The UK government is tipping in AU$13.1 million to enable ‘Platooning’ trials, which […]

The UK’s mail service is commencing trials of a fully electric van with a range of 100 miles. Royal Mail is putting nine Arrival vans to the test across a range of sizes and will […]

There is no denying there is an increasing number of stories about automation within the transport and trucking industry – autonomous bus trials, trucks that don’t require driver intervention and even aspects of the supply […]

In this issue we farewell the urbane Roger McCarthy as managing director of Scania Australia and welcome his successor Mikael Jansson. We had a chat to him at the Brisbane Truck Show and it’s a […]

Cummins and Allison Transmission are hardly new brands, with both their histories spanning over a century, but they find themselves facing new-world problems and the need to adapt as the transport industry does. Manufacturers are […]