Articles by Jon Thomson

Uber Freight is now hauling cargo with self-driving trucks   Self-driving trucks are moving freight in Arizona using Uber Freight, the company announced on Tuesday. The truck helped transfer a load last month from the US Midwest to […]

Delivery vans do a lot of stop/start driving and spend plenty of that time with the engine idling, using fuel. That’s why they make an ideal platform for electrification and that’s why a new electric […]

Shell unveils hyper-fuel-efficient truck The Starship Project truck combines technologies available today for increased fuel economy benefits Shell and the AirFlow Company have designed and built a hyper-fuel-efficient  truck capable of reducing the energy usage […]

To coincide with its 30th consecutive year of truck market leadership, Isuzu has moved into a new purpose built headquarters facility in Melbourne’s west. The company moved into this purpose-built home at Truganina, in the […]

Truck sales in Australia continued to surge in February with more than 3000 new commercial vehicles hitting the nation’s roads for the first time during the month. That figure is up a huge 774 units […]

Hino has announced a new capped price service offering for all Euro 5 emission compliant Hinos promising its customers will pay less for service over the life of their vehicles. Hino’s general manager of product […]

Giant German based logistics and transport company DHL has said that the time taken to recoup the extra capital cost of electric delivery vehicles and trucks could be 25 per cent less than even the […]

The Tesla  Semi isn’t due to go into production until 2019, but there are already prototypes of the electric truck on the road in California. A recent report reveals the Semi has moved beyond brief […]