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
The biggest Tatra truck ever built, this massive eight axled vehicle. Now for the correct info, this is a 16×8 configuration but Tatra is letting us know that a 16×16 truck is just as simple to build as this one when the market demands it. It was built for the German manufactorer Streicher Drilling Technology.…… Continue Reading
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The news about the new Scania series is well hidden. Here are some closer details of the bodywork that show that everything we see now is camouflage. Even the doorhandles are fake and look like the old ones. I think we are realy in for a big surprise when the real thing is presented later…… Continue Reading
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