Now this is something special. At Tony Maurer they put a Claas Xerion Agricultural cab on a MAN truck chassis. The special thing about it is that the cab can rotate on the chassis. That way the driver can also operate the mobile wood chipper that is going to be built on the truck chassis.…… Continue Reading
The Volkswagen Group already has the most of the Scania shares, now the Germans also want the last bit. The integration of Scania into the Volkswagen Group already has started and the main goal is to save money because of the bigger scale. Buying components and raw materials for both MAN, Volkswagen and Scania could…… Continue Reading
On this photo we see a Scania test truck and this looks like a medium size truck. Word is that Scania and MAN are developing a small truck but that would be an even smaller truck up to 6,5 ton. This looks more like a 12 ton truck to me. For the engines Scania is working…… Continue Reading
The Volkswagen factory in Resende, Brazil, manufacturer of VW and MAN trucks and buses, will produce more than 100,000 Volkswagen Constellation trucks for defense departments in 2014. The armed forces of Brazil already use earlier versions of the Volkswagen Worker 4×4 and 6×4. VW Constellation 31.320 is the first 6×6 military truck made in Brazil, which…… Continue Reading
At Mercedes topmanager Andreas Renschler has suddenly left the company after having worked there all of his professional life. Renschler used to be the CEO of the truck devision of Mercedes-Benz. During that time Daimler bought a share in Kamaz. There was the launch of Bharat Benz in India and he got a better hold…… Continue Reading
Euro 6 means big exhaust units on the frame. Some brands like MAN, DAF and Volvo also have split units where the DPF filter is standing straight up behind the cab. That is a nice solution, but they also take some space. WVT from The Netherlands now developed an alternative. Using the standard MAN exhaust…… Continue Reading
Australia’s army has ordered no less than 2,500 new trucks from MAN. The vehicles will be built at MAN’s specialised defense-company Rheinmetall MAN Military Vehicles in Austria. Australia pays 1,1 billion euro’s for it’s new truckfleet. Australia ordered many rigids, tipper vehicles in various shapes and sizes, vehicles to deal with swap bodies, and recovery…… Continue Reading
After a wave of new truck design courtesy of the Euro-6 generation, there are two brands left that did not introduce a completely new cab or even a big facelift. MAN and Scania came with only minor detail changes and left us waiting for bigger design news. Especially Scania, a brand that triggers a lot…… 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
Small truck producer MAZ-MAN is located in Minsk, Belarus, near the big MAZ truck plant. In 1998 MAZ-MAN was established as joint venture between MAZ and MAN for the production of trucks with the MAN F2000 cabs and engines. Now MAZ-MAN is not a joint venture anymore because MAN got out some years ago. After that…… Continue Reading
bigtruck magazine editie 5 2024
bigtruck magazine Cabinetest 2022
