Last month, one of the biggest Polish bus companies, the Warsaw firm Raf Trans Sp. z o.o., took delivery of around 60 new Mercedes-Benz Tourismo coaches and three Setra ComfortClass 500 touring coaches. Antonio Cavotta, director of EvoBus Polska, handed Rafał Jańczuk, the owner of the firm Raf Trans, the symbolic key to his new fleet on the premises. At […]
Volkswagen Truck & Bus has sold around 42,000 trucks and buses in the first three months of 2016, up 6% on the prior-year level. Since May 2015, the activities of MAN Truck & Bus, MAN Latin America — which generates the major part of its sales under the brand Volkswagen Caminhões e Ônibus — and […]
On 29 March, three extra-long trucks embarked on a trip from Scania in Södertälje, Sweden, driving in a close convoy to Rotterdam, the Netherlands. The initiative was being driven by the Netherlands, which currently holds the EU Presidency, and aims to fast-track the development of truck convoys. These convoys have the potential for increasing safety, as well […]
Iveco participated in the world’s first cross-border initiative using semi-automated trucks in the European Truck Platooning Challenge. The initiative, organised by The Netherlands as part of its ongoing Presidency of the Council of the EU fosters European cooperation among transport stakeholders, including truck manufacturers, member states, logistics service providers, road operators, road and vehicle approval […]
On March 15 this year Volvo Trucks launched the new I-Shift with crawler gears. The new crawler ratios make it possible to start and drive with a gross combination weight of up to 325 tonnes – which is unique for a series-produced truck. But just how much weight can the transmission really handle? Volvo Trucks’ […]
Scania has been announced as winner of Sweden’s foremost prize for logistics, the PostNord Logistics Award. Scania received the prize in tough competition with three other nominees, including the leading bearing and seals manufacturing company, SKF. The prize is awarded to the company or organisation that has formed the most efficient, innovative and creative logistics […]
The latest Mercedes-Benz additions to the fleet of quarrying, civil engineering and construction group Leiths were specified to maximise payloads, with fuel efficiency and safety also high on the Scottish operator’s priority list. The five Actros 2442 StreamSpace tractor units arrived via the Aberdeen branch of Mercedes-Benz Commercial Vehicles, the manufacturer’s newly-crowned Truck Dealer of […]
Specialist manufacturer Instarmac in the UK has invested in a new MAN TGX as it looks to add an artic to its fleet. The British company has traditionally run MAN rigids relying on rentals or contractors for some deliveries. The MANs were their first choice for cab size and the feedback appears to be just […]
With the aim of reducing carbon emissions, internal transport operations with a gas-powered Scania tractor unit are now in service at the Audi manufacturing plant in Neckarsulm. To maximise load capacity, and thereby further reduce CO2 emissions, a higher “megatrailer” is being used. In order to comply with the German regulations of four metres maximum […]
Daimler Trucks is launching the first fleet test for emission-free, electric trucks in Germany today. The company handed over the five battery-powered Fuso Canter E-Cells to Stuttgart’s mayor, Fritz Kuhn, and the Hermes Logistics Company yesterday. Over the next twelve months, the Municipality of Stuttgart will test four 6-tonne Fuso Canter E-Cell in a tough everyday […]
