Commercial vehicle parts supplier Whites Diesels has been appointed as the new Daewoo bus distributor for Australia and the Asia-Pacific. The news was flagged to Truck and Bus News serveral months ago by the new […]
ZF has announced it will introduce an eight-speed automatic transmission for commercial vehicles in 2020. ZF says the new Powerline automatic transmission is designed for medium to heavy duty trucks the equivalent of the US […]
Volkswagen and Ford have confirmed that they are in talks about jointly developing and building a series of commercial vehicles including vans. A joint statement from Volkswagen and Ford said the two companies are thinking […]
At the same time if unveiled new electric truck technology to the world truck press Volvo has demonstrated three semi trailer combinations linked together as a wireless platoon with the third truck in the ‘chain’ operating […]
Volvo has hosted many of the worlds heavy transport media to an unveiling of some of the company’s electric truck technology in Sweden. However while at least one Australian truck journalist attended as a guest […]
Following on from the arduous, but highly successful testing regime for its Benz Actros range, Daimler Trucks has unveiled a similar campaign for its Freightliner brand and the Cascadia model it plans to launch in Australia […]
McColl’s Transport, has been sold and is now under new ownership. It is understood that former McColl’s CEO Simon Thornton teamed up with Australian investment group Friesian to purchase the 66-year-old business from private equity […]
Navistar announced that Allison TC10 and Allison 3000 Highway Series transmissions are now available on the International LT Series and RH Series trucks, respectively, when equipped with a Cummins X15 engine. The LT Series previously […]
In this issue we take a look at the Transport for NSW’s push into transport on demand systems to take you the last mile to your work place or home, there is a great story […]
There is a war of ideology being waged in the US truck industry at the moment, pivoting around environmental rules and the main protagonist is the secretary of the environment in the Trump administration, Scott […]
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