German trailer producer Krone just sent a press release that anounches higher prices for trailers in 2017: Commercial vehicle industry under economic pressure Due to massive increases in raw material and energy prices, moderate price adjustments are unavoidable. Werlte, December 2016 – Due to the current conditions on the international raw material and energy market…… Continue Reading
I could not find a better photo to illustrate the end of 2016 and the start of 2017. This beautifull restored Scania 80 of Van der Wal Transport in Heerenveen is parked next to the latest truck in the fleet, a Scania R450 Highline. This International Truck of the Year was the biggest news in…… Continue Reading
Koeltrans Angeren is a Dutch transport company that runs more than 40 trucks, hauling fresh food, flowers and plants. This company is one of the first that has the new generation of Scania on the road in company livery. This S450 is driven by Marius Den Hartigh. The proud driver is very happy with his…… Continue Reading
Mercedes-Benz has a fine cooperation with Foton in China, but it has announced that it intends to sell it’s own Actros truck as well. Also, Mercedes is looking to replace the Actros they sell in Brazil, with a version of the present Actros we all know in Europe. The Mercedes shown in this picture was…… Continue Reading
Recently, the editors of Iepieleaks and BIGtruck were on their way visiting Morocco courtesy of a Nissan introduction. Of course, we were eager to take pictures of the Moroccon truck life, of which you’ll find a series of pictures in our BIGtruck Online Magazine. You will see, that apart from the odd Berliet, trucks in…… Continue Reading
Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter quotes Volvo manager Lars Mortensson, who says that Volvo will introduce a new methane diesel truck somewhere next year. Volvo used this technology back in 2011 en it conducted several tests in a number of countries. In 2014 Vovlo signed a deal with Shell about Blue Corridors. Shell would build a…… Continue Reading
In this great video footage DAF Trucks is showing the road to less CO2. In this video there is also a nice look into the future with a DAF concept truck. … Continue Reading
US trailermanufacturer Wabash has unleashed details about it’s efforts in taking part of the American Super Truck project. At Iepieleaks, we have displayed trucks constructed under the Super Truck project before, think of the Volvo, Freightliner and International examples. Now, we’ve had the opportunity to show something about the trailer. Wabash National’s trailer includes a…… Continue Reading
This year was very much dominated by a lot of Scania news. And yes, we did see and drive the new Scania R- and S- series. Still to come are the new construction- and distribution trucks. We do espect more introductions early next year but this is what we got so far. The photo’s of…… Continue Reading
From beginning of december 2016 all public transport busses in the citys of Eindhoven and Helmond have electric traction. In total there will be 43 zero-emissions busses on the road. “Transdev, first mover in zero emission public transport, commences operating the fleet on December 11th. One of the biggest problems the company had to solve…… Continue Reading
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