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SCANIA SPONSORS HEAVY VEHICLE SAFETY AWARD

August 13, 2025 Jon Thomson

Scania has played a key role as a sponsor of the recent Australian Road Safety Foundation heavy vehicle safety award, which was presented to ‘Steering the Future’ at an annual awards event at Parliament House […]

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NATIONAL REGULATOR REJIGS ITS MASTER CODE

August 13, 2025 Jon Thomson

The NHVR has released a revised draft of its industry code of practice, which it dubs  as the ‘master code, opening it up for public consultation,  as well as inviting input from all stakeholders across […]

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HINO CLAIMS PIONEERING AUTONOMOUS DRIVE EXPERIMENTS

August 13, 2025 Jon Thomson

Hino has announced it has teamed up with a road construction company Taisei Rotec to commence the use of unmanned, autonomous vehicles in full-scale road surface durability tests. Hino claims the initiative will see five […]

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RURAL LIVESTOCK TRANSPORTERS SAYS VOLUNTARY ACCREDITATION COULD SAVE MORE THAN A BILLION PER YEAR

August 13, 2025 Jon Thomson

The Australian Livestock and Rural Transporters Association (ALRTA)  has advocated for a voluntary accreditation model, which it says was developed by Australia’s rural freight sector and claims it could could save the economy up to $1.1 […]

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BOUNCE BACK – AUSSIE TRUCK MARKET NUMBERS EDGE UP WITH STRONG JULY RESULT

August 13, 2025 Jon Thomson

Australian Truck and heavy commercial sales  seemed to have plateaued in the past month with sales figures for the month of July generally line ball with the same month in 2024. A total of 3630 […]

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HISTORIC RESTORATION HELPS MARK ISUZU’S LATEST MODEL LAUNCH

August 6, 2025 Jon Thomson

Isuzu Australia has  revealed it embarked on a very important and extensive historic restoration  of what it is describing as ‘heritage brand stalwart’ with a complete restoration of a 1976 Isuzu KS11 Elf 350 Tipper […]

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BRITISH COMPANY OPENS FIRST HYDROGEN REFUELLING NETWORK ON MAJOR ENGLISH FREIGHT ROUTE

August 1, 2025 Jon Thomson

A company in Britain has announced  that Britain’s first commercial hydrogen trucking corridor will open on theat country’s major North South motorway network, on the  M4 following its  investment into hydrogen refuelling stations that it […]

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CIAO IVECO – NAMASTE TATA – INDIAN GIANT BUYS IVECO IN MASSSIVE GLOBAL TRUCK MOVE

July 31, 2025 Jon Thomson

After years of struggle with underfunding and as Europe’s fifth tier truck maker, Iveco has announced it has sold the truck company to Indian vehicle maker Tata. In massive news today, the Italian owned brand […]

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OPERATION QUAY IS KEY TO SAFER TRUCK OPERATION AROUND THE WHARVES

July 31, 2025 Jon Thomson

The NHVR has announced it will be  conducting Operation Quay this month to ensure heavy vehicles travelling in and around port facilities are safe and compliant. The NHVR says that Operation Quay will run over […]

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VOLVO AND ISUZU INK 20 YEAR STRATEGIC AGREEMENT

July 31, 2025 Jon Thomson

Isuzu and Volvo Group  have announced this week  that thaw organisations have inked a new “strategic agreement” that they say will support the joint development by Isuzu and it subsidiary UD, of a common platform […]

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  • RURAL LIVESTOCK TRANSPORTERS SAYS VOLUNTARY ACCREDITATION COULD SAVE MORE THAN A BILLION PER YEAR
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