A truck driver who pulled an injured motorist from a burning car has been named the 33rd Goodyear Highway Hero. Chosen from three finalists, Julian Kaczor of Utica, N.Y., recently accepted the 33rd Goodyear Highway Hero Award during the Mid-America Trucking Show. Kaczor was driving through Jacksonville, Fla., when a car drove past him at […]
Volvo Buses has delivered a new B11R coach to Andover-based Pikes Coaches in England. The new coach is fitted with a Jonckheere bodywork and has a 53-passenger seating capacity, and joins a fleet of 10 vehicles.
Iveco has received an order for six new Trakker tippers from excavation specialist Penfold Verral in West Sussex, United Kingdom, with the vehicles to be delivered over the next four months. The Trakker Hi-Road 8×4 tippers are being fitted with bodies by Thompsons, with one of the vehicles also being equipped with a Palfinger Epsilon […]
The Scania Report 2015 highlights the driving forces impacting the transport sector, describes Scania’s business model and value creation for the stakeholders “Increasing demand for transport services must be handled while emissions and the climate impact cannot continue to increase. Transport and mobility have to be part of the solution. Scania is well-prepared to assume […]
DAF Trucks has supplied five CF rigids to Martin Brower for their client McDonald’s. The CF 290 FAN rear-steer vehicles feature DAF’s Silent Mode which reduces noise levels to less than 72 dB(A) during night-time deliveries. The new vehicles join an all-DAF fleet of 157 vehicles.
Mercedes-Benz Trucks has delivered eight trucks to haulier Duncan Adams in Grangemouth, United Kingdom. Five units are Actros 2545 tractor units, one unit is an Actros 2443 tractor with small-wheeled mid-lift axle, and two units are 18-tonne Antos rigids for local delivery work. The new units join a mixed fleet of 110 vehicles.
Today marks the start of the Volvo Group’s participation in the European Truck Platooning Challenge. On the initiative of the Dutch Presidency of the EU, three Volvo trucks communicating wirelessly and driving closely behind one another, in a method known as platooning, will travel through Europe to Rotterdam. The aim is to move a step […]
Researchers at Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) in the Netherlands successfully engineered and installed a socket on a Hyundai ix35 Fuel Cell that serves as an electrical outlet. In close collaboration with Hyundai Motor and other commercial partners they converted the zero-emission fuel cell electric vehicle (FCEV) into a power plant on wheels; a […]
The Honda BR-V is destined to be a best seller in all markets when launched and its success can already be seen. With the cabin space larger than the popular HR-V and looks very much like a crossover, it will compete directly with the Nissan Livina when it comes to Malaysia. The BR-V’s dimensions are […]
Volvo Trucks North America today launched several new integrated powertrain solutions, offering increased fuel efficiency, productivity, reliability, comfort and uptime plus more efficient chassis packaging. Integral to the new powertrain are enhanced design features that were engineered to provide Volvo customers best-in-class performance, productivity, fuel efficiency and an improved total cost of ownership. Volvo’s new […]
