A convoy of more than 200 trucks from as far away as Queensland and Victoria converged on Canberra ahead of the senate debating the abolition of the tribunal this week. Speaking alongside Deputy Prime Minister […]
Famed Italian tyre maker Pirelli, now owned by Chinese petro chemical giant ChemChina, has said it will be targeting the Australian truck tyre market and is aiming for an ambitious 10 per cent of the […]
It’s been revealed that Volvo’s interesting experiment to see just how much load its new i-Shift with crawler transmission can haul has seen an FH 16 pull a GVM of 750 tonnes. The experiment, staged […]
With the closure of Ford and many other manufacturing enterprises in the Geelong region the good burghers of the Corio Bay area have received a fillip with the news that a start up electric commercial […]
Renault is on the front-foot in the Australian light commercial vehicle market and is keeping the pedal to the metal in the run-up to the year’s busiest period for van and light truck sales. All […]
In the long running and laughable shambles that has been the RSRT over the past week, he ATA has come out in strong support for the Prime Minister’s announcement that a re-elected Coalition Government will […]
Two Australian dealer service teams have made Volvo’s global service competition finals in Sweden after qualifying at the recent Asia Pacific finals in Thailand. Two teams, one from VCV Chullora and the other from VCV […]
A dozen trucks utilising an autonomous driving system arrived in Rotterdam last week, after traveling across Europe in the European Truck Platooning Challenge. The Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment, along with […]
Australia’s largest data innovation group has displayed a world-first emergency service communications vehicle based around a Hino prime mover at its inaugural showcase event in Sydney recently. Data61 is the CSIRO’s new research unit and […]
Volvo Group Australia president Peter Voorhoeve has signaled that the Swedish maker will be announcing a major initiative to answer the growing shortage of quality truck drivers in Australia. In an extended interview with Voorhoeve, […]
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