When you ask a truckie what their favourite model of truck is, many of them will say the same thing — a Kenworth 909.
The ‘nine-oh’, as it’s often called, has an appeal that has lasted decades.
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Kenworth dominates August truck sales
August saw another slight increase in this year’s truck sales compared to the previous month.
Kenworth dominated the heavy-duty truck segment in August as overall truck sales recorded a 4.47 per cent
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Review on the Sitrak truck from the driver’s seat
From an employee driver’s point of view, it’s always fascinating reading reviews of trucks — but even an intensive review won’t necessarily tell you what a rig is like to live with
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Test driving the new DAF XG model
If it’s true that all good things come to those who wait, then Paccar Australia’s people would be entirely justified in thinking they’ve waited long enough for a DAF with the muscle to rumble among
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Volvo FH Electric takes on Cunningham’s Gap
It was a straightforward question by Volvo Group Australia’s e-mobility manager Tim Camilleri that had his audience thinking: Just a decade ago, maybe less, would any of us have really believed
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When it comes to transmissions Hino is taking an automatic approach
REPORT BY STEVE BROOKS
Through no fathomable fault of its own, Hino Australia hasn’t had the easiest time over the past year or two. Corporate indiscretions in Japan on emissions data,
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New model Iveco test drive sways critical opinion
Expectations, assumptions, presumptions, predictions. Whatever, they’re all fraught with danger and let’s face it, we’ve all been there.
Sometimes, the thing you expect to be wonderful can turn out
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X marks the spot
While supply lines from the US remain stubbornly slow, there’s no denying the potential of Western Star’s new X-series to reignite a return to the days when Stars shone bright across the length and breadth of the country. To put it mildly, there’s a lot to like in the three-pronged line-up but the model with arguably the most to like for our market is the versatile 48X.
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Scania’s new V8 prime mover the king of marginal gains
In the pursuit of efficiency, numerous heavy vehicle manufacturers focus primarily on enhancing the engine and other internal components.
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Rolling out the inside word on the 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.
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