Commercial Vehicles
Commercial Vehicles

Tata Delivers 51 Ace tippers in Jaipur, India

Tata Motors, India’s largest commercial vehicles manufacturer, announced yesterday that it has delivered 51 Ace tippers to Jaipur Nagar Nigam, for garbage collection vehicles in Jaipur. India’s Minister for Urban Development and Housing and Shri Rajpal Singh Shekhawat and the Mayor of Jaipur, Shri Nirmal Nahata, were present at a ceremonial flag-off of these garbage […]

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BUMA Indonesia Invests in 266 Scania Trucks

BUMA, one of Indonesia’s leading mining operators, has decided to invest in 266 Scania trucks over the next five years, at a value of approximately USD 30 million. The order includes parts and maintenance contracts and will be delivered by Scania’s partner United Tractors. In the face of tough competition from other manufacturers, Scania was […]

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Popular in Brazil, VW Constellation

VW Constellation 24.280 CNG The VW Constellation 24.280, the flagship and market-leading product in Brazil for eight years running, appeared at the trade fair with a CNG drive system, which is a sustainable addition to the conventional diesel engines on offer. Estimates for the prototype envisage a 20% reduction in nitrogen oxide and particulate emissions […]

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Scania Wins “International Truck of the Year”

Scania has once again won the prestigious “International Truck of the Year” award. The jury’s motivation emphasised the new truck generation’s driver comfort, safety aspects and its positive impact on haulers’ overall economy, among other factors. “The award is the leading recognition in the industry that all our engineers and in practice the entire Scania […]

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Trucks Driving Around Depots and Yards Without Drivers Could Soon Become Reality

Knorr-Bremse has built an autonomous semitrailer rig that can drive itself to the loading bay and back across the yard with no driver in the cab. The company is demonstrating this and other driver assistance systems from the future of highly automated commercial vehicles in a test truck in the New Mobility World LIVE arena […]

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MAN and Scania Joint Venture: Both Companies Come to Agreement About Roles

Under the umbrella of Volkswagen Truck & Bus, the MAN and Scania brands have determined clear principles for their joint development projects and have concluded a corresponding basic agreement. In future, teams consisting of engineers from both brands will develop core components of the drive train together. There will be common platforms for engines, gearboxes, […]

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Daimler is the Biggest Financer of Commercial Vehicles in the World

Daimler Financial Services is the world’s biggest financer of commercial vehicles: around 940,000 commercial vehicles, representing a business volume of around 34 billion euros, are on the road with a leasing, financing or rental contract from Daimler’s financial services division. This figure marks an increase of eight percent over the previous year. A good 50 […]

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IAA 2016: Foton launches new fuel efficient truck range

There’s a new player in the heavy truck market with the Chinese vehicle maker, Foton, teaming up with Daimler, Cummins and other major players to produce a new line of models. Known as the Foton Super Truck, the new trucks were launched at the IAA Commercial Vehicle Show in Germany and include the Auman Energy […]

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IAA 2016: MAN Reveals Anniversary Coach

Twenty years of business partnership between the coach company ‘Der Krostitzer’ and MAN/NEOPLAN have been marked with a special vehicle. Lars Tscheschke, Service Manager at ‘Der Krostitzer’, was ceremonially presented with the symbolic key to the 7500th MAN Lion’s Coach at this year’s IAA Commercial Vehicles. The owner of the company, Maik Eckinger, already opted […]

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IAA 2016: Bridgestone Demonstrates New Tirematics Tyre Monitoring System

Bridgestone is currently demonstrating its innovative ‘Tirematics’ tyre monitoring system at the ongoing IAA Commercial Vehicles 2016 trade fair, Hannover, 22nd to 29th September. Tirematics™ encompasses all Bridgestone’s connected tyre solutions: IT systems that use sensors to remotely monitor, transmit and analyse real-time information, such as the pressure and temperature of commercial truck and bus […]

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