DAF Trucks collected three prestigious awards at the 2016 Commercial Fleet Awards ceremony: next to DAF Trucks being awarded ‘Truck Fleet Manufacturer of the Year’, the DAF LF-series was voted ‘Best Urban Delivery Truck’ and the DAF CF-series won the ‘Best Distribution Truck’ Award. It is for the second year in a row DAF Trucks […]
Special Trucks division at Mercedes-Benz has loaned the mountain rescue services in Baden-Württemberg a Unimog U 4000 with a seven-seater double cab. With it, the mountain rescue crews have the possibility to put the Unimog extreme off-roader concept to the test on the Feldberg mountain in the Upper Black Forest region. Karsten Fuchs, Head of […]
The loveable FJ Cruiser has been discontinued, making the 2014 FJ Cruiser the last model year. This was the last of the rugged looking Toyota 4×4 ready to take you exploring. The 10-year-old design of the FJ Cruiser still looks very fresh and inviting and we think Toyota should keep producing this rugged 4×4. All […]
I am sure some of your reading this have ridden in the Coaster shuttle bus used by Jaya Jusco supermarket or your town council. More than 550,000 have been sold globally since the model name was adopted in 1969, doing service as hotel shuttles and private minibuses in more than 110 countries. Having clocked up […]
Toyota Motor Corporation will launch the completely redesigned Toyota Coaster at Toyota dealers (Osaka Toyopet dealers in the Osaka region) nationwide across Japan on January 23, 2017. Outstanding safety is enhanced with improved body rigidity through the use of a ringed body frame, the first use of Vehicle Stability Control (VSC) in the minibus segment […]
IAMSA Mexico carries around 350 million passengers per year with 9 600 buses and coaches in 22 Mexican states. To help them with this task, the company has now ordered new 181 chassis from MAN Latin America. “IAMSA is our main customer for coaches and double-decker buses. This set of 181 units comes to complement […]
Dayton is expanding its range of truck tyres with the launch of on/off-road tyres: Dayton D800M steer and D800D drive for mixed on- and off-road service. Made in Europe and subjected to the quality controls of Bridgestone, Dayton on/off-road tyres give truck operators the same no-nonsense “essential performance at the best price” as the Dayton […]
For customers of Shell Rimula heavy duty diesel engine oils, the annual global promotion is a much looked-forward-to affair as winners are rewarded with money-can’t-buy experiences to spectacular destinations. This year, eight lucky Malaysian Grand Prize winners of the Shell Rimula Global Promotion had a thrilling time in Cape Town, South Africa, where they had […]
MAN ProfiDrive has developed a training program together with timber transport managers at UPM, one of the largest paper producers in Europe, to meet the specific transportation requirements for cut-length logs. Loading crane manufacturer Palfinger and ExTe, specialist supplier of timber transport systems, also added their own expertise to the training modules. UPM GmbH, which […]
Renault Trucks has delivered its first Euro 6 D WIDE CNG with horizontal exhaust to food and refrigerated transport company STAF. This model which is specially designed for distribution and can operate on either natural gas or biogas will be released in early 2017. The Staf food and refrigerated transport company was the first to […]
