With the recent purchase of 200 Scania luxury coaches by Boshen bus bodybuilder in Taiwan, the Swedish manufacturer has further strengthened its top position in the Taiwanese coach market. “This year, 2014, marks a record since Scania entered the Taiwanese bus and coach market in 1982,” says Managing Director Per Lilljequist, Scania Taiwan. “During 2014, […]
In an effort to “redefine” motorsports, Lotus F1 team did something that pretty much took the whole world by storm. The team got their Renault tractor-trailer to actually jump over a moving Lotus Formula 1 car, setting the record for the longest jump by a truck. Both vehicles were driven by professionals with experience as […]
Tata Motors celebrated 60 years of truck manufacturing at its first manufacturing and engineering facility in Jamshedpur, India. Set up in 1945, Tata Motors Jamshedpur started with manufacturing steam locomotives, later foraying into truck manufacturing, bringing global trucking technology to India in 1954. Since then, Tata Motors’ Jamshedpur plant has been modernised consistently, with a […]
Hino Motors will be teaming up with Team Sugawara, led by Yoshimasa Sugawara, to enter two 500 Series trucks in the Trucks category of Dakar Rally 2015 as HINO TEAM SUGAWARA. The rally is scheduled to start on January 3rd, 2015, in Buenos Aires, Argentina.In response to what has become an increasingly speed-oriented race, the […]
GKN Land Systems is ramping up production of a new hybrid technology for buses that will enable operators to save fuel, reduce fares and make some routes more viable. Demand for the company’s Gyrodrive electric flywheel hybrid is growing following successful trials in London and the start of UK production. The Gyrodrive system is a […]
MAN ranks among the most sustainable vehicle and engineering companies worldwide. This has been confirmed by the internationally recognized rating agencies, oekom research AG and RobecoSAM. Oekom research reviewed 146 companies in this sector worldwide to assess their compliance with social and ecological stands in the areas of corporate governance and their value chain. The […]
Scania Malaysia has just delivered the first two units of Scania P410 CB 8×4 HHZtipper truck with Scania Opticruiseto construction industry veteran Sin Thow Joo Brick Works Sdn Bhd, based in Chemor, Perak. These vehicles also come with financing and insurance coverage from Scania Credit Malaysia.Another five units are to be delivered to the brick […]
The first of the new Unimog generation was handed over to Sasol Germany GmbH in Brunsbüttel. The company with a workforce of approximately 600 does the bulk of its logistics by rail. The U 423 Unimog will manoeuvre tank wagons, alongside the road-rail Unimog U 400 which Sasol has been using for the last ten […]
DHL Global Forwarding has announced the launch of a multimodal service linking Japan to its existing rail solution from China to Europe. Using a combination of trucking, sea and rail solutions, the seamless, scheduled service offers customers in Japan access to DGF China’s rail freight solution which reduces the delivery time by up to half […]
For the MAN Group, the third quarter of the current fiscal year was again overshadowed by the difficult situation in the international commercial vehicles markets. In particular, the situation in Europe and South America — important sales markets for MAN — remains tense on the back of the economic downturn in these regions. In Europe, […]
