It is very much truck industry award season and the latest brand to recognize its best-performing dealerships through 2017 is Volvo Trucks. The big-selling brand handed out its annual awards at a retail conference held […]
Volvo Trucks has been one of the leading proponents of the shift to heavy vehicle automation in recent years and now the Swedish manufacturer says we should be prepared to see the tech transform the […]
Look out Tesla and the other heavy-duty electric truck proponents, Mercedes-Benz will have an electric version of the Actros available to customers in coming weeks. That was the announcement just made by the German truck […]
The Chinese auto giants, Geely, have now taken a significant stake in Daimler AG, parent company of Mercedes-Benz Trucks, as well as Freightliner, Fuso and Western Star. Announced at the weekend, the investment by one […]
The Australian Trucking Association (ATA) and the National Heavy Vehicle Regulator (NHVR) have both welcomed the appointment of new Nationals leader Michael McCormack to the Federal Transport portfolio. The 53-year-old father of three from Wagga […]
Kenworth DAF Melbourne has added more silverware to the trophy cabinet with the 2017 DAF Dealer of the Year award. The dealership, which also took out the award in 2007 and 2012, was recognized for […]
The Australian Trucking Association (ATA) has confirmed it will hold two business and safety workshops at the Trucking Australia event in April. The ATA tell us the workshops have been designed to assist operators ahead […]
Often in the automotive industry you find that the products are only built to a certain standard, the new Hino 300 Series 4×4 however looks to have been engineered to go well beyond that point. […]
This week on our wrap of the latest Truck and Bus News we cover: Kenworth and Daimler Trucks name best-performing dealerships First Aussie-built Iveco Stralis trucks leave production line Bus and Coach sales slump in […]
A New Zealand dealership has thrown a spanner in the works…taking the title of the best Kenworth dealership in the Australasia region. The winning dealership, Southpac Trucks, has just been crowned Kenworth Dealer of the […]
The team at Daimler Trucks Perth have added another trophy to the collection with another Dealer of the Year Award from Daimler Truck and Bus. The outlet was named 2017 winner of the overall Dealer […]
Iveco’s recent decision to start manufacturing Stralis trucks in Australia looks to be paying off, not just for the famous brand, but for the wider community/economy. After years of importing the popular Stralis into Australia, […]
Peterbilt looks to have gone all-out with the design of the sleeper cab on their new Model 579 UltraLoft. Unveiled this week in North America, unfortunately we don’t get Peterbilt trucks in Australia and so […]
The bus and coach industry in the UK didn’t have a stellar year in 2017 with new data showing a more than 12% drop in sales. Across every quarter of 2017 UK bus and coach […]
Ease of use is one of the top priorities of truck purchasers and the Iveco Eurocargo certainly delivers in that regard. Iveco handed me the keys to an Iveco Eurocargo 160-280 fitted with a sleeper […]
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