Hino’s US operation has announced it will be adding Wabco adaptive cruise control, brake control technology and advanced driver assistance to its trucks from next year. When and if this technology arrives down under is yet […]
It seems we are in the midst of Skills contest season at the moment with Isuzu staging its skills contest a couple of weeks ago and this has been followed in the past week by […]
It was one hell of a swan song, but Peter Voorhoeve’s parting gift to the country he has called home for the past five years is a $30 million national HQ for the Volvo Group […]
It was a big day at Bayswater yesterday as PACCAR rolled out the first Australian assembled DAF CF 85 and announced a $AUD30 million investment in doubling the size and capacity of the Australian production […]
Victorian premier Daniel Andrews has announced that his government has committed $4 million towards heavy vehicle driver training for 800 new drivers should they be re elected at the state election due in November. The Victorian […]
Volvo has delivered the first hybrid bus to what will be the first hybrid bus fleet in Australia with a hybrid Euro 6 Volvo B5Ls delivered to Latrobe Valley Bus Lines in Morwell last week. […]
Isuzu has again staged its National Technical Skills Competition the company’s nation-wide contest that pits the best of Australia’s Isuzu technicians against time, trickily faulty engines, and nerves with ten competing technicians from nine dealerships […]
Kenworth in the USA has announced it is focusing a large part of its research and development on figuring out how make cost-effective trucks that can use less-polluting alternative fuels to haul freight. Kenworth said […]
Iveco has announced that it is investing in its New Zealand commercial vehicle operations with works well underway on a new multimillion dollar facility in Auckland. Iveco says the new site will incorporate its New […]
While it seems the entire world is clamouring over electric and hydrogen fuel cell trucks, no matter what the real practicalities and economics surrounding those vehicles, the reality is that many of the world’s great […]
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