Steve Brooks

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Iveco undergoes change of heart

Iveco Australia’s much anticipated announcement that it will move to full importation of its heavy-duty truck range is set to close the curtain on Australia’s oldest truck manufacturing plant. Built by International Harvester and producing its first truck in 1952, the vast Dandenong (Vic) facility will inevitably cease operations mid-way through 2022
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 Truck Reviews

Cascadia doing the deed at Cleary Bros

MODEL REVIEW: Freightliner could not have picked a tougher time to launch its much tested and much touted Cascadia, a few short months before COVID-19 sent the world into a terror-stricken spin. But business goes on and more than a year after a prominent family company put one of the country’s first Cascadias to work, the truck has ticked every box for both the owner and the driver
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 Truck Reviews

Hino 700 rigid a class act

TEST DRIVE: After an impressive static display mid-way through 2021, we expected plenty from a first drive of Hino’s new 700-series trucks, and we certainly weren’t disappointed by an FR 6x2 rigid model put through its paces in everything from heavy metro traffic to fast freeways. Sure, with so much new technology on board, there were a few quirks but all up, Hino appears to have done its homework well. Very well!
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Western Star bursts back

Defiantly low sales have not dampened Western Star’s desire to reinvigorate the brand’s fortunes in our part of the world. In fact, following the US launch a year ago of the new 49X model and the recently released 47X, a new breed of Stars is being set to hit our shores at the end of 2022. Locally, Penske’s people are keeping finer details close to the chest but here’s a report sure to shed some light
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Kenworth keeps kicking on

COVID or no COVID, the Australian road freight industry continues to run hot and leading the rush for trucks is heavy-duty supremo Paccar Australia, boldly led by its Kenworth flagship. But don’t go thinking Paccar’s powerbrokers are resting on laurels or aren’t looking far into the future. The way we see it, big things are brewing behind the scenes for both Kenworth and its ambitious DAF stablemate.
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Stirring times for enduring Eaton

There was a time when arguably the most common component in heavy-duty trucks was the Roadranger gearbox. But then came automation and with trailblazing technology now driving the tempo like never before, Eaton will late next year launch an entirely new automated shifter called the Endurant XD 18-speeder
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Kenworth and the Cameron connection

Among the annals of Kenworth’s Australian history, there is no greater contributor to the brand’s foundation than the late Ed Cameron. But what drove this enterprising Victorian truck operator to seek something better and in the process create the platform for such a stellar future? Perhaps the best answer is to be found in a 1984 interview long after Ed’s retirement, revealing the resolve of a man who truly believed in ‘havin’ a go’
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