After 23 years Volvo has finaly got rid of the unit injectors for the D13 engine. Along with a whole package of novilties on aerodynamics, improved drivelines and the new i-Shift Crawler Volvo has now anounched the introduction of the next D13 engine series. Earlyer the D11 and D16 were adapted to Common Rail technologie,…… Continue Reading
On april 6 platoons of trucks from all over Europe were driving to the Maasvlakte in Rotterdam for the European Platooning Challenge 2016, the first ever cross border platooning project. Six of the seven truck manufactorers, organised in Acea gave an impressive demonstration with Truck Platooning. The audience from all over the world witnessed helicopter…… Continue Reading
A photo on Iepieleaks that I posted some time ago gave some discussions and reactions. One is from Günter Obst from Yachttransporte, Germany. He says the roof of the Scania of Börje Johnsson is not that high, but the cargo area is higher than we are used to. Another thing that caught his eye was the…… Continue Reading
Kamaz is taking of now with new, good looking 41 and 50 ton dump trucks. They have Mercedes-Benz cabs, Chinese MAN/Steyr licenced axles and Chinese Cummins 12 litres engines with 410 Hp. Option is also a Kamaz V8 engine with about the same output. The gearbox is a 16 speed ZF. These trucks are for offroad…… Continue Reading
Renault Trucks is improving the T-Series with new engine’s, less weight and optimised airodynamics. Also new is the introduction of a GPS based predictive cruise control system with the name Optivision. This Optivision is probably the Renault version of the Volvo I-See. The other way around is the expertation that the engine news that Renault…… Continue Reading
Now here is something special. Nima Transport from The Netherlands presents their new supertruck: Pink! The design and artworks of MWDesign are based on the portraits of the singer Pink. Normaly it is all about scoops here on Iepieleaks but this one is very special and deserves a place on Iepieleaks! Please check www.bigtruck.nl for more!…… Continue Reading
Renault Trucks has launched a special edition of the high-sleeper cab tractor. The ‘High-Edition’ is completely black with red and carbon-fiber accents. Not only the outside but also the interior has a black trim with red linings on the leather seats. … Continue Reading
Now here is a photo that was made by Dutch truck driver Marc van Nieuwenhoven. He shot this combination in Sala, Sweden. He is wondering about the roof hight of the Scania truck. This one seems to have a small engine tunnel in the cab and the roof seems to be somewhere in the middle…… Continue Reading
Volvo is introducing a new version of the I-Shift transmission with one- or two crawlers. With these new option the Volvo I-Shift is capable of pulling away with gross vehicle weights up to 325 ton under heavy conditions. Also this new technology alows to work with different rear axle ratio’s so extreme pulling power at…… Continue Reading
Now here is something special that was hidden for very long. One of my Russian Iepieleaks fans sent me this photo of a rather strange Scania prototype that was shot in 2010. It is a cab with a flat floor but it looks like Scania used a standard Highline cab that was rebuilt. When you…… Continue Reading
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