Mercedes-benz has stopped the production of the bonneted trucks in Brazil. After Scania and Volvo Mercedes was the last to produce bonneted trucks in a country that was build by trucks of that type. The last Atron trucks had a Euro-5 engine under the hood. The cab was an evolution of the European Ecoliner cab.…… Continue Reading
Volkswagen has introduced a CNG version of the VW Constellation 24.280. This biggest VW truck ever, introduced six years ago was presented now with a CNG system. Estimates for the prototype is a 20% reduction in nitrogen oxide and particulate emissions compared with certifiable diesel engines in Brazil. The CNG system should be compliant with…… Continue Reading
In The Netherlands Scania celebrated the 125th birthday with a classic truckrun. 125 classic Scania trucks made a convoi trip to Zwolle. BIGtruck and Iepieleaks made this movie to remember this great event. … Continue Reading
Navistarannounched their SuperTruck demonstration vehicle, CatalIST last wednesday. This truck achieved a freight efficiency improvement of 104 percent and that is more than double the 50 percent goal set by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) for its SuperTruck program. Against a 2009 base line model truck, the CatalIST Supertruck achieved a fuel economy of 13 miles…… Continue Reading
The new Scania R- and S- series are only just introduced but already the Dutch company Van Winkoop is offering a longer version. With this new ‘Longline’ design Van Winkoop is announcing a 90 cm longer cab. Van Winkoop is also the company who produced the longer versions of the Volvo FH and DAF XF…… Continue Reading
Now here are some photo’s that were teken by Erik-Jan Moes. The interesting thing is that this is a 10×4 truck and that means the Construction models are coming. The cab seems to be the R- cab that was introduced but the mirrors are new to us. Is this the more basic construction type of…… Continue Reading
At the IAA 2016 in Hannover German trailerproducer Kögel and the Russian truckbuilder Kamaz announced a long-term cooperation. The cooperation includes the delivery of components freom Kögel to Kamaz and the development and production of semi-trailers and trailer bodies in Russia. Kögel is present in Russia since more than 35 years. The German trailer specialist supplies…… Continue Reading
Now don’t ask me where I got these pictures but here is the new Scania P- cab in three different versions. What we see here is the shortest and lowest version, a half- sleepercab with like a litle raised roof and the full- sleepercab with the Higline roof. I must say they look realy good…… Continue Reading
At the IAA 2016 in Hannover the ‘International Truck of the Year 2017’ is going to be appointed. Now this year the jury has three trucks that are nominated. The nominees are: The new Iveco XP and NP trucks, The Mercedes-Benz Actros ‘Powerbooster’ with its new engine generation and the new Scania R- and S-…… Continue Reading
Kenworth introduced a more streamlined T680 truck with a day-cab for pickup and delivery and regional tansport. The truck is optimized in aerodynamics and is powered by the Paccar MX13 or MX11 engines. These engines come In combination with the Eaton Fuller automatised transmission with the fuel efficient Meritor MT40-14 drive axles rated at 40.000…… Continue Reading
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