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TALE OF TWO SCANIAS – SWEDISH BRAND’S STRENGTHENING LINE UP TELLS A SIMILAR STORY IN DIFFERENT WAYS

Swedish truck maker Scania is very serious about spreading its appeal and aspirations in the Australian heavy duty truck market, not just with its range of Super 11 ‘Vocational’ offerings but also with an expanded [...]
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TIRED OF FATIGUE OFFENCES – NHVR WARNS OPERATORS TO PAY MORE ATTENTION TO TIRED DRIVERS

The NHVR has made a pleat truck operators after it recorded a total of 5835 fatigue related offences nationally last financial year. The massive offence rate is an increase of almost 16 per cent on [...]
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PROVE IT ! – SCANIA OPENS ALL NEW R&D PROVING GROUND IN SWEDEN

Swedish based global truck maker Scania has opened a new $AUD140 million (SEK975 million) 85 hectare proving ground and R&D centre at Södertälje in Sweden which it says will strengthen the its parent Traton Group’s [...]
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ATA WINNERS – ASSOCIATION REVEALS NATIONAL TRUCKING INDUSTRY AWARD RECIPIENTS

The ATA has announced the winners of its National Trucking Industry Awards which were presented last week at its Technology and Maintenance Conference in Melbourne. The Trucking Association awarded the 2026 Craig Roseneder Award for technical [...]
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LAND OF THE LONG GREEN UNIMOGS – KIWI DEFENCE FORCE PLACES BIG ORDER FOR MERCEDES OFF ROADERS

Daimler Truck Defence has announced that it has been chosen to supply the New Zealand Ministry of Defence and the New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) with a contract for 61 of its Mercedes-Benz Unimogs as [...]

ON A CHARGE! FORD UNVEILS A CHINESE BUILT ONE TONNE EV VAN AND A 900KM RANGE SUPER HYBRID FOR OZ

September 15, 2026

Ford has announced it is about to set the cat among the pigeons when it comes to battery electric powered cargo vans with the news that it will launch a new pure battery electric one […]

PLUG ME IN – KIA BACK IN THE VAN MARKET WITH ALL ELECTRIC PV5

June 30, 2026

Kia has re-entered the light commercial van market and also entered the electric van market with the recent launch of its all-new PV5 Cargo. It is the Korean brand’s purpose-built battery-electric van and it comes […]

ARENA ROCK – RENEWABLE ENERGY AGENCY ACCELERATES HOME CHARGER PUSH

June 23, 2026

ARENA, the Australian Renewable Energy Agency has announced it has expanded support for vehicle-to-grid (V2G) technology, by committing an additional $13.6 million in order to grow Australia’s largest residential trial and potentially accelerate the integration […]

PUNCHIN’ DUTY ! FORD LAUNCHES NEW IMPRESSIVE HEAVY DUTY RANGER

November 26, 2025

Ford has launched what it believes will be a game changer in the of road working vehicle market with the new Ranger Super Duty making its debut to the transport media last week. The Ranger […]

VOLKSWAGEN LAUNCHES ELECTRIC ARSENAL AND UPDATED COMMERCIAL RANGE

November 11, 2025

Volkswagen has taken the covers off its latest generation T7 Transporter range including new battery electric models along with an updated Crafter large van and its electric ‘retro kombi’ ID.Buzz Cargo and the revised Caddy. […]

FORD PLUGS INTO ELECTIFICATION AND ALL WHEEL DRIVE WITH REVAMPED TRANSIT CUSTOM RANGE

November 10, 2025

The Transit name plate has been a constant for Ford for the past six decades and while the style and design philosophy has changed dramatically over those 60 years there are few other commercial nameplates […]

SOFT SELL – TRUCK SALES SOFTEN AGAIN IN JUNE

July 3, 2025

The Australian commercial vehicle market continued its ever so gentle softening in June, with registration figures showing a 5.2 per cent drop on the same month in 2024 as the long tail of trucks coming […]

SMOOTH OPERATOR – 780 GOOD REASONS WHY VOLVO’S BIG BANGER IS A MASTERPIECE

April 7, 2025

There is a strand of thinking in road transport today that looks at smaller engines, not bigger ones, another that looks at down speeding to reduce revs and decrease fuel consumption and another that combines […]

COMPANY CAR – ABARTH 500E – AN ELECTRIC CITY FUN CAR WITH A STING IN THE TAIL

March 2, 2025

When it comes to reading a review of a potential Company Car in a heavy vehicle publication then you couldn’t get anything more incongruous than a review of Fiat’s sexy little Abarth 500e, an electric […]

DAIMLER’S NEW ELECTRIC TRUCKS – TESTED

July 4, 2024

JOEL HELMES recently flew to Melbourne to drive the latest battery electric offerings from truck giant Daimler and posed the question: where are we at with the still most likely only partial electrification of the […]

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