One of New Zealand’s largest transport operators, Ritchies Transport Limited has been sold to major global venture capital company KKR after 86 years in the hands of the Ritchie family. The global investment firm, announced […]
Despite Covid interrupting events across most of the Eastern Seaboard the Road Transport Hall of Fame was fortunately able to hold the 2021 Shell Rimula National Road Transport Wall of Fame event in Alice Springs […]
The ATA has announced it has appointed Michael Deegan as its new CEO, following the departure of former boss Andrew McKellar, who resigned and left the Trucking organisation on the 6th August after just six […]
It hasn’t taken long for VW’s truck arm, Traton to impose its will on its latest acquisition, Navistar. Just over a month after Traton took 100 per cent ownership of Navistar, it has announced […]
European electric commercial vehicle start up, Volta Trucks, has announced it has started engineering evaluation and development testing of the first prototype Volta Zero, an all-electric commercial truck designed for inner city logistics, in the […]
A commitment by the Queensland Government’s to rollout more zero emissions vehicles on the state’s roads has been given a major boost with a plan to build 16 new electric buses at a facility on […]
Japanese Global automotive giant, Toyota, has announced it intends to manufacture fuel cell modules at its massive Kentucky auto-assembly plant for use in zero-emission trucks and heavy-duty commercial vehicles, a move that will directly benefit […]
Despite, or some might say as a result of the Covid crisis, you may have noticed there is a nationwide skills shortage and that is being felt in the transport industry particularly in terms of […]
A number of leading bus operators have introduced another layer of safety checks for drivers amid the ongoing Covid crisis, employing a cloud based system to instantly detect and read the body temperature of drivers […]
Just when we thought Volvo Group was positioning itself to buy Isuzu, the Swedish global truck and bus maker has stunned the industry by forking out just over $AUD175million to buy the heavy truck making […]
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