The Volkswagen Group now seems to shift up. First former Scania CEO Leif Östling was sent home, and now Volkswagen CEO Martin Winterkorn pointed the direction in Svenska Dagbladet. He says that for different juristic reasons the whole deal had to be worked out before he could explain more. Now, with ex Dailmer CEO Andreas Renschler…… Continue Reading
In Finland, a company dealing with vegetable transport has become a temporary allowance to try out a practice test with a double trailer combination, weghing up to 90 tonnes and realising a total length of 34 metres. The combination will be used in everyday transport and will save one transport ech time iit is on…… Continue Reading
This undeniably spectacular picture of a very short and a very high DAF-cab, seems to be taken at DAF’s premises at the Eindhoven factory. What would be the purpose of such a high and meanwhile short cab? Todays’ truck legislation doesn’t require such a solution as there’s enough space for instance for a rigid chassis…… Continue Reading
Mercedes just launched a new van on the American market. It is the Vito which will be named Metris in the US. After the success of the Sprinter, that started life overthere as a Dodge, Mercedes has more than enough confidence to try out the Vito there as well. Some adaptions have to made of…… Continue Reading
In Kenias, in the outskirts of Nairobi, police checked trucks with a weighbridge. They weighed a truck which appeared to be fine. However, police noticed that this truck went to take ‘some’ extra load. After this was completed, the Kenian police ordered the truck back on the weighbridge. There, it appeared that the total weight…… Continue Reading
Today the one-millionth DAF truck was produced at DAF’s home factory in Eindhoven. The Dutch prime-minister Mark Rutte came to Eindhoven to celebrate this rather unique event together with DAF Trucks CEO Harrie Schippers. I wonder if they have to blow out all one-milion candles on the cake together!… Continue Reading
The French national mailservice ‘La Poste’ and Renault Trucks are testing the Renault Maxity truck with a fuel cell added to the electric driveline. Hence, the heavy batteries can stay away and the Maxity can theoretically drive about 200 km on one tank of hydrogen. The fuel cell considerably increases the range of the Maxity,…… Continue Reading
Transmission specialist Eaton and engine constructor Cummins intend to work together more closely. This already showed with the SmartAdvantage driveline, combining softwareprogramme’s to have an engine and a transmission understand each other more or less during tough operational conditions. Looking for sustainable solutions, it is believed that both company’s work jointly on a double clutch…… Continue Reading
And here is even more Scania news! This is what we would call the new P- series cab, but in construction this could be a G? Probably? It is an 8×4 tipper truck and the best thing about these pictures from www.terrein.nu is that it shows the mirrors without camouflage! All together there is a…… Continue Reading
Iepieleaks has received more Scania wintertest pictures through www.autoliefhebber.com. The pictures show a 4×2 tractor unit wit what we would now call a Topline cab. Interesting is the LED bar above the windscreen. All Scania trucks that were spotted have one and this could be the next step in roof lights. They do give a…… Continue Reading
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