In November Einride and DB Schenker – a global leading forwarder and logistics service provider – initiated the first installation of an autonomous, all-electric truck or “T-pod” at a DB Schenker facility in Jönköping, Sweden. It was the first commercial installation of its kind in the world. The T-pod is an electric autonomous driverless truck…… Continue Reading
DAF Trucks is working on the future models for the heavy truck series. There have been rumours for a long time about the new project but now one of the prototype trucks was spotted on the public roads in The Netherlands. The shape of the windscreen does look like the one we have seen the…… Continue Reading
And there is the first photo of the new Volvo FM scale model! These photo’s were sent in by one of our fans but the story does not tell if this is a factory product or the work of a scale model truck builder. The green FM looks good and this could well be the…… Continue Reading
The new Iveco cab we saw on www.iepieleaks.nl could be not as new as we think it is. One of our readers made a study of the photo’s and he found out some interesting details. He writes: ,,Obviously the cabin will still be pretty much the same as the one introduced in the last century…… Continue Reading
We published some photo’s of the new Volvo FM that is being tested at the moment. The new generation of the Volvo FM is espected to be launched later this year but there is more news coming up! On the website 40ton.net we now find even more photo’s of the FM, but also of the…… Continue Reading
Volvo is working on the next FM and we showed photo’s before where we see the side of the truck. Here is the first picture of the front end of the cab. The photo was sent in by one of our readers who wants to stay anonymous. Have you seen anything interesting on the road?…… Continue Reading
The pictures we published last week of the new, and heavy camouflaged Iveco trucks show a nice detail. We didn’t notice but one of our readers pointed at the LNG tank in combination with what seems to be a diesel tank on the chassis. That diesel tank is too big for the nightheater. Does this…… Continue Reading
We found these photo’s of what seems to be the first facelift of the Hyundai Xcient heavy truck. The first model of the Xcient was launched in 2013, and here you can find the story. We don’t know if there are technical changes on the new Hyundai but we do espect the ZF Traxon gearbox…… Continue Reading
In Veghel, the Netherlands Dutch rallydriver Eimbert Timmermans is working on a special rallytruck. What we see here is a bonneted DAF CF with the engine all the way in the rear of the frame. The engine is built in reverse, so with the cooler unit at the end of the truck. Eimbert believes that…… Continue Reading
BIGtruck online magazine is now available in Spanish language. Click here, its free! http://magazine.bigtruckmagazine.com/3-2018-espanol… Continue Reading
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