Volkswagen controlled truck making conglomerate Traton has announced it has tapped into new capital markets in Australia, New Zealand to strengthen its global financing strategy. The use of Australian bond markets is apparently a first […]
Volkswagen controlled global truck group, Traton used its recent Annual General Meeting to approve some healthy dividend for the last financial year, improving on last year’s shareholder payout by 13.3 per cent. In addition to […]
Shares in Vokswagen’s heavy truck subsidiary, Traton have been hit badly n recent weeks following the company’s cautious sales outlook for the commercial vehicle market in 2025 and amid a weak global economy. The market […]
German based Traton subsidiary, MAN Truck and Bus s has revealed the introduction of a new SafeStop Assist program on its buses in Europe, which the company says detects driver inactivity and will add to […]
Australian MAN distributor, Penske, has announced a special MAN sale between now and the 31 July which the company has dubbed the ‘MANumental’ sale. The company says MANumental sale includes upfront factory rebates, driveline warranties, […]
Volkswagen Group has released its quarter-year sales and financial reports and while things were a little challenging for the automotive behemoth to start 2024 there are predictions for a much better short-term future. The division […]
We’ve been watching battery electric vehicles big and small dominate the headlines in the past decade, but what about hydrogen power as an alternative? The technology has almost been sneaking along in the background without […]
MAN has used the Australasian Bus and Coach Expo in Sydney to unveil its new fully electric low-floor Lion’s Chassis E LF bus chassis. Based on the MAN Lion’s City E, which was recently voted […]
The apparent problem child of the Traton family of truck brands, MAN declared at the IAA in Hannover this week, that the decarbonisation of freight transport, the digitalisation of logistics and the worsening shortage of […]
It’s not too often that you might quote a magician in an article about a truck, but I’m going to on this occasion. Tony Corinda is that magician, he said “Good timing is invisible, bad […]
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