The introduction of LNG (liquefied natural gas) as an alternative, cleaner fuel for road transport, inland waterway transport and coastal shipping is expected to bring an extra 2.7 billion euros in economic growth and 8,000 man years between now and 2030, in the Netherlands. The development of LNG is therefore of strategic importance to the…… Continue Reading
Now how about this picture? Yes, it’s a photoshop pic, but what a lovely idea! The new Volvo FH, of course in FH 16.750 trim, with straight bonnet and large fenders, like with the American Volvo VN. We received this picture from one of our many websitefans and it looks the part! Hopefully, Volvo AB…… Continue Reading
DAF Trucks will increase it’s truck production from 164 trucks per day to 184 trucks by the end of August upcoming. DAF reports increasing interest from customers in it’s newly introduced generation of Euro 6 trucks. To cope with the production increase, DAF looks to reinforce it’s workforce with 200 newly to recruit people. In…… Continue Reading
One of the many, many Iepieleaks spies who roam the entire globe to find the latest trucks, spotted this bright-red painted Hyundai Xcient in the Port of Rotterdam. What is it doing overthere? To the opinion of our spie in Rotterdam, it could be transferred from one ship to the other. No one has any…… Continue Reading
Recently, we saw that Scania has introduced the first gas powered truck which complies with Euro 6. A complicated achievement, as such an engine requieres a lot of electronics to make sure all sensors act and operate according to the Euro 6 protocol. As we all know, this protocol is much more complicated than Euro…… Continue Reading
Daimler does not only produce Fuso trucks in Japan and in at the Kamaz premises in Russia. The Germans also build the Japanese light trucks in India. Fuso and Daimler India intend to reach a sales target of 290.000 until the year 2020. That is total sales over a period of seven years, starting from…… Continue Reading
The Indian owner of truckbrand Avia will close the production facility of Avia in Prague, the capital of the Czech Republic. Ashok-Leyland withdraws Avia completely from the European continent and will continue to build Avia trucks in india. Productionlines of the Prague Avia-plant will be reassembled in India for production. The Ashok Leyland group is…… Continue Reading
Volvo Trucks studies the possibility for long-haul trucks and buses to draw the juice they need from the road itself, making large onboard batteries a thing of the past. It looks Volvo’s been inspired by your old fashioned Scalextric racetrack, which should lie somewhere in the dust at your attic, or the attic of your…… Continue Reading
Hungarian transport giant Waberer, formerly known as the state owned haulage company Hungarocamion, has ordered 600 trailers at Schmitz, Europe’s trailer market leader. This order follows from a previous order of 730 trailers. In total, Waberer operates some 2,500 trailers from Schmitz in a fleet which has around 3.000 tractors. This makes Waberer one of…… Continue Reading
Volvo and Scania are going to fight it out with their upcoming powerful sixteen litre Euro VI engines. Earlier this year, Scania unveiled its new V8 Euro 6 engine range. However, they left out one very important engine in their presentation: the most powerful one, the 730 hp plus variant. It appears now why Scania…… Continue Reading
Bigtruck magazine editie 11 2024
BIGtruck Magazine Kippertest 2024
