Author Archives: Iep van der Meer

New cab for Kamaz long distance trucks

New cab for Kamaz long distance trucks

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

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DAF Trucks participates in UK Truck Platooning trail

DAF Trucks participates in UK Truck Platooning trail

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

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New Ural, familiar cab!

New Ural, familiar cab!

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

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Electric Transit ‘Streetscooter’ for Deutsche Post DHL

Electric Transit ‘Streetscooter’ for Deutsche Post DHL

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

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Scania G ready for launch!

Scania G ready for launch!

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

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Scania: How low can you go?

Scania: How low can you go?

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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Mercedes-Benz X-Class presented

Mercedes-Benz X-Class presented

Mercedes-Benz has revealed the new X-Class pickup. With this car Mercedes steps into a new segment. Mercedes-Benz thinks this segment will grow from the current 2,2 million vehicles worldwide to about 3,2 million in 2026. Mid-size pickups are already part of a normal cityscape in many countries, especially in the southern hemisphere. In Argentina and Australia, for example,…Continue Reading

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