Volvo trucks have just taken two world speed records with its 2367bhp ‘Iron Knight’ truck. The custom-built racer has – pending final FIA verification – set new world truck speed records for the 0-500m and 0-1000m sprints. It dispatched the 0-500m run in 13.71sec, achieving an average of 82mph in the process. The 1000m run […]
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 […]
Volvo is the first manufacturer in the world to introduce a fully autonomous truck into an underground working environment. The company’s FMX tipper has begun full scale testing at the Boliden mine in Kristineberg, Sweden, where it will be tested inside the earth at a distance of up to four miles into the mine, and […]
First launched in the Europe region in May 2016, PETRONAS Urania with ViscGuard™ is now available in Malaysia. Regional Head of Asia, PETRONAS Lubricants International, Mohd Khalid Bin Mohamed Latiff said, “PETRONAS Urania with ViscGuard™ is the result of our global research efforts, conducted to understand our customers’ and the end consumers’ business and transportation […]
