Articles by Jon Thomson

Despite the fact that Paccar has temporarily shut down its Bayswater plant in Melbourne and the Volvo Group plant at Wacol in Brisbane will shut down  for around a month on the 13th April, Australia’s […]

The Australian truck market continued to slow in March, a situation partly affected by the Codiv 19 crisis, with overall figures down 18.2 per cent on March 2019. The true effect of the crisis is […]

Leading public transport operator, Transit Systems has revealed it has overhauled its cloud and telecommunications environment with a system it commissioned Macquarie Telecom to build with an artificial intelligence capability powered by real-time data. The […]

In what is a continuing shake up in the bus market in Australia, the once dominant Mercedes-Benz bus brand, which in the past had a lion’s share of the public transport route bus business, has […]

ATA  chair Geoff Crouch says the National Cabinet’s decision that truck stops can stay open recognises that truck drivers are essential workers and deserve support. The Australian Health Protection Principal Committee and the National Cabinet […]

US Self-driving truck startup TuSimple  and German based global automotive supplier ZF, have announced that they will work together on a commercial scale to develop and produce autonomous vehicle technology, including sensors,. The TuSimnple/ZFpartnership, is set […]

Volvo has announced the appointment of  Robyn Thomson to the role of director, corporate affairs for Volvo Bus Asia Pacific (APAC). In her new role, Robyn Thomson will support all markets in Asia Pacific (APAC), […]

Truck plants around the world are slowly grinding to a halt as a result of the Covid 19 crisis, with Australia’s truck plants not being immune. Volvo Group Australia announced today that it would shut […]