Scania has presented a new option for the new generation of trucks. Like the other Swedish truckbrand now Scania also offers an electric handbrake. This is not the standard brake, but an option. Another option is the ‘Clutch on demand.’ The clutch pedal can be ignored but when the driver decides he wants more control…… Continue Reading
Volkswagen has presented the new Delivery range in Brazil. This is the product for the 3,5 up to 13 tonnes for Latin America and other demanding markets. In the Volkswagen Truck Group we did espect to see more of a global platform but this Delivery small truck has nothing to do with the European products…… Continue Reading
Scania just launched the XT construction vehicles and that completes the Scania ‘nextgen’ programm. In the past years we had a lot of scoops with Scania fieldtest trucks and now Scania released some photo’s of these trucks during the official launch. It is always good to show again, these old iepieleaks friends, and it gives…… Continue Reading
Kamaz has introduced a complete new cab for the long distance trucks. As we can see on these photo’s the new Kamaz cab is the Actros cab of Mercedes. That is no suprise, because Daimler is one of the main shareholders of the Russian truckbrand Kamaz. The suprise is that the Russians now present this…… Continue Reading
tomorrow the new Scania Construction series will be launched. The new series is named XT.… Continue Reading
DAF Trucks will participate in a two year truck platooning trial in the UK, led by TRL, the UK’s Transport Research Laboratory. Together with its partners, TNO, Ricardo and logistics company DHL, DAF Trucks has been selected by the UK government’s Department for Transport, in conjunction with Highways England to gain experience with truck platooning…… Continue Reading
The GAZ Group has presented a new Ural truck for the oil- and gas industrie. The new Ural four- axled truck is capable of transporting 30 tonnes of payload. The truck is powered by a YaMZ-635 engine with 422 Hp and 2000 Nm of torque. This Euro-5 engine is mounted to a 16 speed gearbox…… Continue Reading
After the compact full electric ‘Streetscooter’ distribution van the new German producer of electric LCV’s now presents the Streetscooter Work XL. This bigger LCV is based on a Ford Transit van with a 20 cubic metres big body. Custumers can choose different batterypacks that make distances possible up to 120 km on one battey charge.…… Continue Reading
On this photo, made by Truckphoto Helsingborg, we see a Scania badged as a G500. The same truck was caught last year by a Dutch truckdriver and at that time it had camouflage prints over the cab. The only thing that is hidden is now the front bumper that looks like a construction bumper. It…… Continue Reading
The ‘nextgen’ Scania trucks of the P- model are not introduced, but the expertation is that we are going to see the complete programm later this year. Here we see two photo’s of prototype’s during fieldtesting. One is what we espect to be the new P-cab, with a sleeper cab and the standard roofhight. But…… Continue Reading
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