Author Archives: Iep van der Meer

Iveco Strator

The Iveco Strator looks like the Australian Powerstar but it is a Eurpean truck. Iveco dealer CFG in The Netherlands rebuilds Iveco Stralis trucks to bonneted trucks. This way the costumer gets the ‘Australian’ looks with a modern Euro5 or in the future even Euro6 engine! Click here for more information!          …Continue Reading

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DAF, big in Russia

DAF Trucks has increased its European market share last year to 15,1% but aims for 20% in the near future. For 2014 the plan is 16,5% and twenty percent is the goal in a few years. DAF is very succesvol in Russia where the marketshare went from 6 to 13% last year. Overall the Dutch…Continue Reading

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RAM Promaster Van

Now here is a photo of the RAM Promaster Van for the USA. Or is it not? And am i fooled by a photoshop artist? On november 30 of last year i posted an item about the RAM Promaster saying that this van was going to be based on the Fiat Ducato, and this is…Continue Reading

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Scania facelift comming up?

Some time ago I showed a drawing of what looked like the next Scania but now I have something that looks more official. It is a photo from some kind of presentation that was made by one of my Iepieleaks spies. It looks very realistic for the comming facelift of the existing cab. Roumours say…Continue Reading

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Xtra long double deck trailers

Dutch trailerbuilder Van Eck built this extra long double deck trailer for the Norwegian and Swedish post. This is one of the two trailers and both of them are going to be towed by one truck. With a dolly in between the two 17 meter long trailers make a roadtrain of 32 meters. The trailers…Continue Reading

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Jansen's DAF XT

And yes, the DAF XF in the previous post is one of the same company that had the two unique DAF XT trucks built. There are still only two of them and the question is if there ever will be more. On thet photo below you see the two bonneted DAF trucks together with the…Continue Reading

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