July, 2015

New Benz Vito Arrives on the Scene

T&TT LCV specialist Glenn Torrens gives us  his impressions of the new Vito following the recent Aussie launch SAFETY WITH ABILITY is the message from Mercedes about its new Vito van range. All-new, the VS20 series [...]

Volgren registers two significant milestones

Things are clearly percolating at leading bus builder Volgren with the company recently breaking a delivery record while also celebrating a major milestone with the 4000th bus rolling out of its Victorian facility at Dandenong. Volgren [...]

Cat and Navistar split in the US but stay married Down Under

Caterpillar has announced it will split with joint venture partner Navistar in the US and will start building its own on highway trucks from its plant in Victoria, Texas. But the divorce in  the US is [...]

Zero-Pollution Buses Emerge With Backing From Silicon Valley

Buses that don’t emit pollution or draw on coal power are starting to appear on the streets of US citiers with the support of Silicon Valley and a company backed by Warren Buffett according to reports by Bloomberg [...]

Perth Truck Show – small but impressive

The West Australian truck industry gets its chance to showcase the latest and greatest in road transport when Perth Truck and Trailer Show comes around and this year was no exception.  The city’s  Convention and Exhibition Centre [...]

Management shake up at Daimler Truck and Bus

Daimler Truck and Bus has  annouced a major shake-up in its management team at Clayton with the news that Richard Eyre will move out of the role of general manager of  Fuso to a new position entitled [...]

New N Series will tick all the safety boxes says Isuzu

Perennial Australian truck market leader Isuzu  says its new revised N Series light duty range, due for release next month, will take truck safety to a whole new level with a range of electronic systems to [...]

Isuzu backs telematics data dictionary

Isuzu,  one of the truck companies really leading the charge with truck telematics, has  welcomed the Transport Certification Australia’s recent ‘Telematics Data Dictionary’  which it says stands to act as a catalyst for the uptake of information [...]

AUSSIE ELECTRIC BUS UNVEILED IN MELBOURNE

Go ahead Gold Coast bus builder Bustech has revealed  the first ever Australian built and developed electric bus. The company chose the recent Bus Vic Expo in Melbourne to  unveil the Bustech ZDi  claiming it is [...]

Transport and Trucking Today Issue 103 Now out

In our new bigger Transport and Trucking Today June/July issue we feature a full rundown on the recent Brisbane Truck Show, the futuristic Freightliner Autonomous Truck, The US Supertruck program, new light commercial vans from Renault [...]