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TESLA ‘HYPER’ SEMI FINALLY UNVEILED

November 20, 2017 Jon Thomson

In usual Elon Musk style, the hype was supercharged as the technology entrepreneur finally took the wraps off his much vaunted Electric prime mover at a glitzy ceremony held at the company’s design centre in […]

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Volvo Group Australia celebrates its 60,000th Australian made truck

November 16, 2017 Jon Thomson

  Australia’s car manufacturing industry may have been shut down but truck manufacturing is surging along nicely with Volvo Group Australia rolling the 60,000th truck off its production line in Wacol today.  VGA is now […]

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ELECTRIC TRUCKS – MAYBE THE ANSWER IS ABOVE US

November 13, 2017 Jon Thomson

Electrical and electronics giant Siemens is trialling a way of powering electric trucks without the need to recharge at regular intervals Near the port of Long Beach, south of Los Angeles, a feeder road is […]

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TESLA TRUCK REVEAL COMING UP THIS WEEK

November 13, 2017 Jon Thomson

Tesla will finally unveil its prototype for an electric semi-trailer prime mover and founder and CEO Elon Musk is not letting the company’s recent stumbles dampen his enthusiasm for hype. The mercurial magnate made a […]

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ATECO Ushers in the LDV Ute

November 9, 2017 Jon Thomson

Ateco has launched the latest Chinese entrant into the local ute market and given it previous experience with Sino-utes, with both Great Wall and latterly Foton, the local independent distributors is looking for strong volume […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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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