Articles by Jon Thomson

Bridgestone has announced the opening of a new tyre service centre in Port Hedland to service the mining port town and  the Pilbara region. The Bridgestone Service Centre Port Hedland is part of the company’s […]

Martin Toomey  has  resigned and left his role as sales director  for Scania Australia after just 10 months in the job. Toomey joined the company to take the role following the retirement of former CEO Roger […]

A British company which pioneered a special networking website for bus and coach operators in the UK has launched the program in Australia and is hoping to giver smaller operators in particular a way of […]

Torrens Transit, the Adelaide based subsidiary of bus giant Transit Systems has signed a contract to acquire Adelaide’s Light City Buses (LCB) from Broadspectrum. The transition will involve the transfer of more than 370 buses […]

Australian company Daysworth International, best known for its container terminal tractors, was one of the major news stories at the Megatrans expo in Melbourne last week with its bold initiative to breath life into the […]

In this issue we have the first local drive of Scania’s latest NTG truck range and we look at and drive Mack’s new Anthem model in the USA. While we were over there we visited […]

Isuzu has taken the industry by surprise announcing that its local Australian subsidiary is developing its own electric truck concept and could possibly build the truck here to answer what it say is strong demand […]

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 […]