Daimler Trucks reaches the mark of 50.000 vehicles sold in the US with its bestseller Freightliner New Cascadia since production started in January 2017. The 50.000th New Cascadia was handed over to the customer Cargo Transporters (Claremont, North Carolina). Currently, Cargo Transporters operates more than 550 Freightliner trucks, now including over 120 New Cascadia. The…… Continue Reading
Here are some photo’s that our friends made on the Autobahn last week. What looks like a normal Actros is in fact the latest model. Check the mirrors, they are gone! Also the LED tail lights are new. The old grill could be mounted just to fool us, probably there is some new styling as…… Continue Reading
The legendary Italian designer Pininfarina took the change to design another truck. After the not verry succesfull Turkish BMC trucks he now worked on a new Mahindra truck. The Indian Mahindra Truck and Bus Division proudly presents the Mahindra Furio Medium truck range. To us it looks like any Asian medium truck and we recomend…… Continue Reading
Mercedes-Benz is going to launch a new generation of the popular Actros during the IAA in Hannover. This truck that was caught on the road in Dresden, Germany. There is a lot covered on this truck, but it definately is an Actros when we look at the chassis. The cab is completely covered but we…… Continue Reading
And there are the first photo’s of the new heavy Ford truck for the European market! The truck is produced in Turkey and is going to be presented at the IAA in September. But for the first impression you don’t have to wait any longer: Here are the first real photo’s, off course on www.iepieleaks.nl!…… Continue Reading
This photo was sent in to Iepieleaks and what we see is a Mercedes-Benz Actros with a streched cab! The longer cab looks like it is based on the Streamspace model in the front end, but the roof seems to raise a bit to the back. Hopefully we get more information soon about this beauty!… Continue Reading
MAN is testing in the Sierra Nevada at the moment. One of our Iepieleaks fans sent us these photo’s. We don’t know what’s under the cab of these trucks but we did hear some rumours that MAN is testing non EGR engines. Well, they can just ask their sister company in Sweden what the tricks…… Continue Reading
It is not a prototype and not exactly new, but special it is, this Nicolas V10 Turbo 6×6 heavy duty tractor. This impressive tractor unit is for sale at Kleyn Trucks in Vuren, The Netherlands. The truck was built in 1994 and has only 214.000 km on the tacho. With its 14R20 tyres at the…… Continue Reading
Freightliner has presented the full electric version of the Cascadia Class 8 truck in the USA. This is the answer of Daimler to Tesla and Nikola that presented their electric long haul trucks earlyer. There are no technical details of the new Freightliner, but the power output should be more than 700 Hp compared to…… Continue Reading
Dennis Eagle has presented a fully electric eCollect garbage truck at the IFTA exhibition in Munich. The truck will be available as a 26-ton 6×2 chassis in a narrow configuration with a 19m³ narrow rear loading body and automatic split-bin lift. The production should begin in 2019. Before production starts Dennis will start field tests…… Continue Reading
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