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 […]
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 […]
Isuzu says its new NLR 45-150 Servicepack ticks all the boxes for specialist tradespeople or contractors– and can be driven on a standard passenger car licence. The new NLR 45-150 Servicepack is part of what […]
Mercedes-Benz has launched its new dual-control Econic model range for the waste sector in Australia in what is becoming an increasingly attractive niche for truck makers. The Melbourne launch was in front of leading waste […]
There was a time when platooning was something that was best left to the military but in a truck environment, which is increasingly dominated by technology, platooning is the new buzz word in the world […]
The Annual Mid America Truck Show starts this week in Kentucky but for the first time since the show started in the 1970s there has been a mass boycott by major US truck brands with […]
According to reports in the Wall Street Journal the U.S. Department of Transportation has ordered thousands of Volvo heavy-duty trucks off US roads after the company announced a recall last week due to a potential […]
At its Hagerstown, Maryland assembly plant in the USA, Volvo Trucks North America has unveiled its new model 2017 Volvo engines, including improvements to its D11 and D13 engines as well as its new Volvo D13 […]
Volvo’s new global president Martin Lundstedt jetted into Brisbane this week for a whistle-stop 30 hour visit this week, overseeing the first sod turning at VGA’s new $30million headquarters in Wacol as well as meeting […]
Volvo has launched a new version of its I-Shift featuring crawler gears capable of starting from standstill with a load of 325 tonnes. Volvo claims that the new gears,which are added to the automated transmission,provide […]
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