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OPTARE OFFERS OPERATORS A READY TO GO DEMONSTRATOR FLEET

November 6, 2017 Jon Thomson

Bus Corp Oceania, the Australian and New Zealand distributor of Optare buses has announced that it has invested in a fleet of work-ready demonstrator vehicles to give operators the opportunity to try the technologically advanced […]

Features

MACK RECALLS ARE PURELY PRECAUTIONARY SAYS VGA

November 6, 2017 Jon Thomson

Mack has issued two precautionary recall notices, one for around 7,668 Metro-Liner, Trident, Titan, Granite and Super-Liner model trucks sold in Australia over the past 11 years and another for 463 Macks for a separate […]

Features

AUTONOMOUS WON’T QUELL DEMAND FOR PROFESSIONAL DRIVERS

November 6, 2017 Jon Thomson

The push for autonomous vehicles is gaining more traction as it is provides an easy solution to the worsening driver shortage. Greg Nichols, writing for ZDNet, says the obvious reason is that “millennials don’t want […]

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BOOM-BOOM, TRUCK MARKET SURGES IN OCTOBER

November 6, 2017 Jon Thomson

The Australian truck market continued to boom in October with some of the best sales figures seen since the GFC, eight years ago. In fact it was best October sales figures since the T-Mark system […]

Features

ONE MILLIONTH PETERBILT SET TO BE BUILT

October 30, 2017 Jon Thomson

Kenworth’s American sibling, Peterbilt is set to celebrate a significant milestone in mid-January 2018 with the production of its 1,000,000th truck. The first Peterbilt rolled off the production line in 1939 and while Paccar does […]

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FUSO SAVES THE QUEEN

October 30, 2017 Jon Thomson

While its electric e-Canter and Vision One trucks grabbed all the attention for Fuso at the Tokyo Show, sitting quietly in one corner of its stand was its new Aero Queen touring bus, which if […]

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PONCHO EV COULD SPARK INTEREST FOR HINO

October 30, 2017 Jon Thomson

While Fuso has hitched its future to electric trucks, or perhaps plugged into an electric future, Toyota owned truck brand, Hino had just one electric vehicle on display at its Tokyo Motor Show stand, its […]

Features

SCANIA POSTS RECORD GLOBAL RESULT FOR FIRST NINE MONTHS ON BACK OF NEW MODELS

October 30, 2017 Jon Thomson

Scania has announced a record result for the first nine months of this year, a 15 per cent increase over the same period in 2016 with the Swedish Volkswagen subsidiary revealing net sales of the […]

Road Tests

TRUCK AND BUS TV ROAD TESTS THE LATEST IVECO E6 EUROCARGO

October 30, 2017 Jon Thomson

Take a look at our latest video road test of the Iveco Eurocargo E6. Jon Thomson climbs behind the wheel for a  drive of Iveco’s medium duty truck, which brings a lot of good innovations, […]

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BRIDJ TRANSPLANTED DOWN UNDER AND READY FOR BUSINESS

October 26, 2017 Jon Thomson

Like Victor Kiam and the shaver company, Aussie bus operator, Transit Systems liked the US on demand bus operation Bridj so much it decided to buy it. Bridj originally was a US based company that […]

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