Articles by Jon Thomson

The battle of the big hitters in the truck rental and leasing market continues to heat up with Penske Truck Rental and the leasing arm of PACCAR Australia, PacLease Australia going blow for blow. PacLease […]

While Tesla is sprucing orders that may be filled several years from now Daimler has started delivering actual electric powered trucks to customers in the USA and Europe. Deutsche Post DHL, DB Schenker, Rhenus and Dachser […]

US soft drink and beer brewing companies have started making the running for Tesla with orders for its electric Semi. PepsiCo is the latest and so far the largest order with Reuters  reporting a 100-truck […]

FIRST INTER-VIEW At last, after a long gestation period, International has been reborn in Australia and T&TA was able to arrange the first drive of the new ProStar. Allan Whiting scored a drive in a […]

PACCAR Parts has announced the opening of a new parts distribution centre in Brisbane to increase parts availability for PACCAR Australian customers. “This demonstrates our standing commitment of being a world-class leader in aftermarket parts distribution and international […]

Scania Australia boss Mikael Jansson  has revealed the launch date  for the Swedish truck maker’s new generation truck, telling the Australian truck media. that the new Scania will be launched here on 14th March 2018. Speaking […]

Kenworth  has announced it has delivered the 60,000th Australian- built truck from its plant in Melbourne while at the same time revealing that it will commence assembly of trucks from PACCAR’s European subsidiary, DAF, at the Bayswater factory. […]

David Carson has been named president of Western Star Trucks, and chief diversity officer for Daimler Trucks North America (DTNA). He is currently president of Freightliner Custom Chassis Corp., and will replace Kelley Platt, who […]