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CLEAN ENERGY FINANCE TEAMS UP WITH VOLVO TO ACCELERATE ELECTRIC TRUCK TAKE UP

The Commonwealth Government controlled Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) has revealed it is is working with o truck maker, the Volvo Group, in a bid to to accelerate the electrification of the Australia’s trucking fleet [...]
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DAIMLER LAUNCHES SEMI PUBLIC TRUCK CHARGING IN EUROPE

Daimler Truck has taken the next step in ‘normalising’. electric trucks in its home market of Europe, having launched a charging network which the truck giant describes as ‘semi private’, which will mean opening up [...]
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TRUCK SALES DOWN ALMOST 12 PER CENT IN 2025 BUT LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL SAYS COMPANY CEOS

The Australian truck market has finished 2025 down around 6000 units and 11.8 per cent on its record high at the end of 2024. Truck makers are not to perturbed about the steady decline across [...]
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SCANIA WINS OVER POLYFOAM

A Melbourne-based company which is one of Australia’s largest makers of food boxes for fresh produce has begun buying Scania rigid trucks to transport its expanded polystyrene food boxes, because its previous Japanese supplier ceased [...]
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R&J BATTERIES’ GETS A CHARGE OUT OF 30-YEAR PARTNERSHIP WITH ISUZU TRUCKS

Australia’s largest wholly locally owned importer and distributor of battery products in Australasia, R&J says it is fuelling its next chapter of growth with the latest truck technology from Isuzu. The company is celebrating its [...]

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 […]

JUNGHEINRICH RECKONS ELECTRIC VOLKSWAGEN VANS ARE ALL THE BUZZ

October 13, 2025

According to global provider of sustainable material handling solutions, Jungheinrich it has become one of the first companies in Australia to integrate Volkswagen’s new electric vans into its operations . Jungheinrich, is a German based […]

DAILY TALLY – IVECO’S VAN HITS 1.8 MILLION

October 23, 2024

Iveco has revealed it recently celebrated the unusual production milestone of 1.8 million Daily vehicles manufactured at the company’s Suzzara plant at Mantua in Italy. We say unusual because while it is a significant number, […]

WHAT’S THE BUZZ, TELL ME WHAT THE FUSS IS ABOUT? VW ANNOUNCES IMMINENT ARRIVAL OF ELECTRIC ‘KOMBI’

September 12, 2024

Volkswagen has confirmed the new-age electrified version of its venerable Kombi, the ID. Buzz range, will be launched in Australia before the end of the year and has published a list of prices for the […]

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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