Articles by Jon Thomson

Much admired and respected  vice president of sales for Volvo Trucks Australia and Oceania, Mitch Peden, has been promoted to an international role within the Volvo Group after being announced as the new managing director […]

A joint release by the Australian Road Transport Suppliers Association (ARTSA) and the National Heavy Vehicle Regulator (NHVR) has revealed that 17 per cent of all new heavy vehicles sold in Australia last year were PBS approved […]

With waiting lists at truck body builders getting longer and  more unwieldy and a need to manage customer expectionation for light truck delivery times Fuso has announced it has launched a range of ready to […]

Beer giant Anheuser-Busch has announced it  has ordered up to 800 of Nikola Motor Co.’s semi-trucks in the largest single deal on record for heavy-duty delivery trucks powered by hydrogen fuel cells. Anheuser-Busch stated that […]

Nikola Motor Company has filed a lawsuit  in Arizona alleging that Tesla’s all electric truckinfringes on the hydrogen truck start up’s patents. The lawsuit claims Tesla willfully copied these patents in creating its electric truck, […]

The truck sale boom continued in April with heavy-duty sales in particular leading the way. April truck sales totalled 2,757 for the month, 157 units less than the outstanding figures for March but well ahead […]

Daimler Truck and Bus has announced a new US recruit to its Australian operation with the announcement  that Matt Smedley will be joining the company’s down under team as the head of network development. Smedley […]

A German company plans to acquire 30 additional Mercedes-Benz Econic NGT (Natural Gas Technology) refuse trucks equipped with Allison  automatic transmissions. In December 2016, the municipally-owned company put into service the first of 10 Allison-equipped […]