Articles by Jon Thomson

Mack boss Dean Bestwick says the brand’s new Anthem will hit Australian roads around the third quarter of 2020 despite earlier expectations that it would be here in Q1 or Q2. He says it is […]

Volvo Group Australia’s new boss, Martin Merrick says he does not see the need to move to full Euro 6 compliance for the company’s truck range while Australia compliance legislation remains at Euro 5 level. […]

UD has given Australian Brisbane Truck Show attendees a sneak preview of  its new heavy medium truck, the Croner  which is set to arrive later this year. The Croner  will replace the UD PK and […]

Scania has registered another strong quarterly global financial result and appears to have overcome supply problems with net sales rising to $AUD 5.43 billion (SEK 36.1 billion) while earnings in the first quarter amounted to […]

Scania has announced  that it will supply the world’s first right-hand drive Generation II, K320 UB 4×2 Hybrid bus to long-time customer, McHarry’s Buslines of Geelong, Victoria.  The company said that discussions leading to the […]

The Brisbane Truck Show had another successful staging last  week with  bumper crowds and more manufacturers and industry suppliers clamouring to show their wares in the halls of the Brisbane Exhibition Centre. The Show was […]

In this issue of Transport & Trucking Australia we take a look at the new Kenworth T360 and T410 vocational range after a launch at Anglesea recently, we test drive Volvo’s new dual clutch I-Shift transmission as well as […]

Paccar Australia will again be the headline act at this year’s Brisbane Truck Show revealing it will have a massive 12 truck Kenworth and DAF display across its ‘Paccar World’ display at the biennial truck […]