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Month: April 2016

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PIRELLI GETS SET TO ATTACK AUSSIE TRUCK TYRE MARKET

April 18, 2016 Jon Thomson

Famed Italian tyre maker Pirelli, now owned by Chinese petro chemical giant ChemChina, has said it will be targeting the Australian truck tyre market and is aiming for an ambitious 10 per cent of the […]

Features

VOLVO FH16 HAULS 750 TONNES

April 18, 2016 Jon Thomson

It’s been revealed that Volvo’s interesting experiment to see just how much load its new i-Shift with crawler transmission can haul has seen an FH 16 pull a GVM of 750 tonnes. The experiment, staged […]

Features

FIRST EDITION OF T&TA’S NEW COFFEE WITH THE CEO NOW ONLINE

April 16, 2016 Jon Thomson

Volvo Group Australia president Peter Voorhoeve is our first guest on our new video series, COFFEE WITH THE CEOs which is now online for viewing. In a wide ranging interview Voorhoeve reveals his passions, Volvo […]

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AMBITIOUS NEW ELECTRIC BUS SET TO ROLL IN GEELONG

April 15, 2016 Jon Thomson

With the closure of Ford and many other manufacturing enterprises in the Geelong region the good burghers of the Corio Bay area have received a fillip with the news that a start up electric commercial […]

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RENAULT LCV ADDS DRIVE-AWAY PRICES

April 11, 2016 Jon Thomson

Renault is on the front-foot in the Australian light commercial vehicle market and is keeping the pedal to the metal in the run-up to the year’s busiest period for van and light truck sales. All […]

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ATA APPLAUDS PRIME MINISTER’S COMMITMENT TO ABOLISH RSRT

April 11, 2016 Jon Thomson

In the long running and laughable shambles that has been the RSRT over the past week, he ATA has come out in strong support for the Prime Minister’s announcement that a re-elected Coalition Government will […]

Features

TWO AUSSIE TEAMS MAKE GLOBAL FINAL

April 11, 2016 Jon Thomson

Two Australian dealer service teams have made Volvo’s global service competition finals in Sweden after qualifying at the recent Asia Pacific finals in Thailand. Two teams, one from VCV Chullora and the other from VCV […]

Features

FALL IN! – PLATOONING IS ON THE WAY

April 11, 2016 Jon Thomson

    A dozen trucks utilising an autonomous driving system arrived in Rotterdam last week, after traveling across Europe in the European Truck Platooning Challenge. The Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment, along with […]

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HINO POWERS ADVANCED EMERGENCY COMMUNICATIONS UNIT

April 11, 2016 Jon Thomson

Australia’s largest data innovation group has displayed a world-first emergency service communications vehicle based around a Hino prime mover at its inaugural showcase event in Sydney recently. Data61 is the CSIRO’s new research unit and […]

Features

WE HAVE A PROBLEM THAT NEEDS TO BE ADDRESSED SAYS VOORHOEVE

April 11, 2016 Jon Thomson

Volvo Group Australia president Peter Voorhoeve has signaled that the Swedish maker will be announcing a major initiative to answer the growing shortage of quality truck drivers in Australia. In an extended interview with Voorhoeve, […]

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