tomorrow the new Scania Construction series will be launched. The new series is named XT.… Continue Reading
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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!
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
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!
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?
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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Volvo FMX 8×8 Triple wide spread
For the Dutch market Volvo Trucks is working with Terberg Techniek on an 8×8 version of the Volvo FMX Construction truck. The truck is equiped with hydraulic suspension on the three rear axles. The Volvo FMX 8×8 has the axles on a distance of more than 180 cm from each other and that makes them…… Continue Reading
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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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BIGtruck International Magazine
BIGtruck online magazine now also has an English version, and that makes it International! This year we will publish four magazines on our special, Englisch website: www.bigtruckmagazine.com. Click here for the website!http://magazine.bigtruckmagazine.com/01-2017… Continue Reading
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Iveco Strator Light 400
CFG, producer of the Iveco Strator bonneted Euro-6 trucks has build the first lightweight version of the Strator. The truck has the narrow Iveco sleepercab with high roof and the Cursor 9 engine with 400 Hp. With this Euro-6 engine the Strator weighs only 6.370 kilo, and that makes it an interesting alternative for tank-…… Continue Reading
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