Steve Brooks

Truck Reviews

New Iveco range to sway truck buyers

For more than a few years, the heavy-duty sector hasn’t been a happy hunting ground for Iveco Trucks Australia. There are, however, now signs of an eager confidence in the camp as the company prepares to formally introduce its fully imported S-Way range at the Brisbane Truck Show
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 Truck Reviews

Report card on Cascadia

Sure, it hasn’t yet notched the numbers expected of it, but in everything else Freightliner Cascadia appears to be achieving exactly what its proponents planned. That is, to bring a stunning level of standard safety to the conventional truck class and vitally, build a reputation that buries once and for all the dubious durability and questionable build quality of its immediate predecessors.
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The aces of Base Air

Clever or crazy, trucking history is full of inventions of one sort or another. But every now and then, something genuinely good emerges and if all goes well, the ball starts rolling. Such is the story behind the Base Air suspension system, forging a new paradigm in truck and trailer stability according to some high profile and highly astute operators
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To the Hill and beyond in a K220

It was the biggest, most anticipated truck launch of 2022 and now, sporting laudable levels of modern sophistication in a booming market for new trucks, Kenworth’s K220 is set to write yet another chapter in the seemingly endless narrative of the iconic K-series cab-over
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Reason and reality forges Lindsay Transport vision

This year, refrigerated freight specialist Lindsay Transport will notch 70 years in business and as part of a major fleet replacement program, take delivery of its 500th Kenworth. These are, of course, memorable milestones for both outfits but as Rob Dummer, Lindsay’s general manager of operations explains, Kenworth is just one part of a product strategy which also sees corporate cousin DAF making big inroads
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Truck sales reach new record in 2022

As most industry analysts predicted, 2022 was a barnstorming year for new truck deliveries. The biggest on record. Typically, some brands fared notably better than others but few failed to record bigger numbers in what was a deluge of demand for new trucks.
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 Archive, Product News

Volvo plugged in

As Volvo Group Australia prepares to add battery-electric prime movers and rigids to its model line-up later this year, VGA's VP of engineering technology Paul Ilmer, the company’s self-confessed true believer in the viability and certainty of electric trucks, details the current state of play
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 Truck Reviews

MAN on a mission

Penske Australia is pushing harder than ever to put MAN on a higher pedestal in a fiercely competitive crowd of classy cab-overs. It’ll be a tough task but the introduction of a much modernised range in a booming market provides the perfect platform to gain ground and judging by the recent performance of a top-shelf TGX 26.640 model, the big MAN from Munich is certainly ready to rumble.
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