Articles by Jon Thomson

In a ground breaking announcement that has taken the truck industry by surprise today, Hino and Volkswagen Truck and Bus have announced an agreement to work together on technologies including conventional drivelines, hybrids, electric drivetrains, […]

Volvo Group Australia has inked a deal to lease a new  $35 million company owned dealership and service centre at Prestons  on Sydney’s South West edge close to the M7/M5 interchange at the Prestons Logistics […]

Volvo has announced its first commercial use all – electric truck–the Volvo FL Electric aimed at urban distribution and refuse operations among other applications. Volvo says series production and sales of the new model will start […]

The controversial Takata airbag  problems have arisen again in the Australian truck industry with Hino announcing today that it has  issued a new  voluntary safety recall on certain 300 Series models produced between January 2013 […]

Mazda has announced it will launch a bold new look for its BT-50 with an on sale date of next month. In its second and claimed to be biggest update since launch in 2011, the […]

Hino Australia has been recognised by its global parent, Hino Motors as one of its leading Hino parts distributors for the tenth consecutive year, “The 2017 Parts Department of the Year award reinforces Hino Australia’s […]

While its trucks are all manufactured and assembled overseas Isuzu is claiming it is helping the local vehicle building industry by sourcing most of the bodies on its Ready to Work range of light trucks […]

While rival Nikola is refunding order deposits as a massive and expensive PR exercise, Tesla continues to spruik orders placed by prominent US operators and companies. Tesla’s latest conquest order for its planned semi electric truck […]