There were cheers at the Mercedes-Benz plant in Aksaray when the 200,000th truck built at the facility rolled off the assembly line. The plant’s employees celebrated the milestone together with Dr. Wolfgang Bernhard, member of the Daimler AG Board of Management with responsibility for Daimler Trucks & Buses, Stefan Buchner, Head of Mercedes-Benz Trucks, Gerald […]
Built to offer a solution for urban transport problems in busy cities, Mercedes-Benz launched the CapaCity L high-capacity articulated bus today. It is an imposing 21 m long and provides space for up to 191 passengers as standard. It consumes well below 0.5 l/100 km per passenger and has only minimal emissions: The CapaCity L […]
Scania Malaysia today announced the winner of the Scania Malaysia Top Team Competition 2014-2015 edition. The winning team successfully worked on and solved problems on five components presented as a set of challenges to them – Theory, Brake, Electrical, Suspension and Fuel. The competition was held last week at Scania Malaysia Bukit Jelutong. Gary Archer, […]
MAN is therefore expanding its range of CNG vehicles, adding trucks with CNG drives to its established range of natural gas city buses in 2016. At the IAA 2014, MAN is giving a preview of the CNG technology in trucks with a TGM distributor chassis. The 18-tonner is driven by a six-cylinder CNG engine with […]
DHL Freight has expanded its Eurapid service across Europe with nine new terminals joining the network in November. The day-definite service for less-than-truckload (LTL) shipments up to 2.5 tons is now available at 50 terminals in 17 countries and covers 80 percent of all business addresses in Europe. “Since the launch of this premium service […]
Mitsubishi Fuso and UD Trucks Corporation have announced that they have jointly developed a new truck for sale in Japan. Although no information on the truck was disclosed, we can expect the new model to be a light duty truck as Mitsubishi Fuso is currently supplying light-duty truck platforms to UD Trucks. is said that […]
The Volvo FL, Volvo Trucks’ specialist in city distribution, is about to become even more productive. The compact 5-litre engine for Euro 6 is offered to the 14 and 16 tonne variants and releases 200 kg extra payload. Additionally, Volvo Trucks’ fleet management system Dynafleet can now be ordered directly from the factory. “We want […]
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 […]
