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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Cummins featured a 54-year-old London Routemaster double deck bus yesterday, in the line-up of Cummins-powered clean buses appearing at IAA Hannover ready to meet the Euro 6 (VI) Phase-C low emissions regulations taking effect 1 Jan., 2017. The iconic Routemaster RM1005, which first entered service with London Transport in 1962, now has the distinction of […]
The head-up display (HUD) has already conquered the mid-range cars, but it’s still new in the world of trucks. That said, Continental is one of the world’s first companies to develop a HUD for commercial vehicles and has installed the technology in its own InnovationTruck. Supplementing conventional instrument clusters, the display provides the driver with […]
MAN is presenting a strong future-proof portfolio of trucks at the IAA Commercial Vehicles 2016 (IAA 2016). For the 2017 range, MAN merges engines with new power levels of up to 640 HP and higher torque with finely tuned transmissions and switching functions into application-optimised drivetrains. This is accompanied by exterior and interior design innovations […]
