Author Archives: Iep van der Meer

New President DAF Trucks N.V.

New President DAF Trucks N.V.

PACCAR Inc, parent company of DAF Trucks N.V., announced that Preston Feight has been promoted to the position of president of DAF Trucks N.V, effective April 1, 2016. Preston Feight is succeeding Harrie Schippers, who has been promoted to PACCAR senior vice president with responsibility for DAF Trucks and PACCAR Parts at the corporate office…Continue Reading

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New: International HX series

New: International HX series

International just launched the new construction vehicles with the name HX series. They come with two different engines, the 13 liter MAN licenced ‘Navistar” engine and the 15 liter Cummins. Engine outputs are up to 430 HP for the Navistar N13 and up to 600 Hp for the Cummins ISX 15 liter engine. Depending on…Continue Reading

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Ural bonneted truck for Dakar 2017

Ural bonneted truck for Dakar 2017

On www.trucksplanet.com we found this information about a Ural rally truck. According to sports director of “GAS Raid Sport team, Vyacheslav Subbotin: “In the following year  we will present a race version of Ural Next with YaMZ-780 engine. This truck will allow us to race together with such teams as the “KAMAZ-Master” and teams of…Continue Reading

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Mercedes-Benz Zetros: More power!

Mercedes-Benz Zetros: More power!

The Mercedes-Benz Zetros is now available with more powerfull engines for not Euro-6 markets. At first the Zetros only was available with the small engines but now it also commes with the 12 liter six-pot from the previous Axor models. The power output for these engines is 326 or 428 Hp with max 2100 Nm of…Continue Reading

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Scania design still a secret

Scania design still a secret

Now everybody is speculating about the new Scania and this photo spreads like wildfire over Facebook. They do look good but this is not the new Scania design. These are ‘artist impressions’ that were well made but this can’t be for real. Take a close look at the one that was photographed under a camouflage…Continue Reading

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Kraz 8×4 with Renault cab

Kraz 8×4 with Renault cab

The Ukrainian truckbrand Kraz has presented the new 8×4 truck with the type Kraz 7233C4. The truck has a Renault Premium cab from the first generation. The engine is a Russian YAMZ 6501 engine, based on an old Renault design. Other options are Chinese Weichai and Turkish Ford engines. The gearbox is said to be…Continue Reading

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Scania Crown Edition

Scania Crown Edition

Scania seems to be launching the ‘Crown Edition’ of the Scania Streamline series. Seems to be, because the only thing we could find was this Youtube video. Now this could be the final version of the excisting model range before the launch of the new Scania. That launch is expected just before this summer. Fieldtest…Continue Reading

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Volvo ‘The Hook’ also for FH models

Volvo ‘The Hook’ also for FH models

Volvo Trucks made a lot of publicity about ‘The Hook’ on the Volvo FMX models. The central towing point in the FMX has a capacity of 32 tons and that was demonstrated in a nice Youtube movie. New is that Volvo is now working on a similar central towing hook for the FH and FH16…Continue Reading

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BIGtruck online magazine

Bigtruck magazine editie 11 2024

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