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Driving Diesel Efficiency

Driving Diesel Efficiency

One of the contenders for the Truck of the Year Australasia 2024 title is the Scania Super, which sees the Swedish truck maker driving diesel efficiency with an all-new engine and gearbox.
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Creating a Zero Tail Pipe Emissions Truck

Creating a Zero Tail Pipe Emissions Truck

In January 2021 the first electric Volvo FL and the FE trucks outside of Europe arrived in Australia. In 2022, Volvo started full series production of the heavy duty electric range, with the company expressing its ambition to build electric trucks in Australia in 2027.
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it's the infrastructure, stupid!

It’s the Infrastructure, Stupid!

A lot of people in the trucking industry are wringing their hands and have concerns about how our industry is going to make that transition across to zero carbon operation over the next 25 or so years, but what they need to realise is, to misquote Bill Clinton, it’s not the trucks, it’s the infrastructure, stupid!  
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How Does Hydrogen Actually Work?

This is a beautifully shot video about a hydrogen truck made by Volvo in the Arctic, but begs the question, how does hydrogen actually work? Like all of these new zero carbon technologies which
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Zero Carbon Learning Curve

Zero Carbon Learning Curve

The entire trucking industry, as well as truck makers, is on a steep zero emission learning curve as they grapple with the issues around reducing carbon emissions from trucks towards a zero target.
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Building a Diverse and Sustainable Workforce

Building a Diverse and Sustainable Workforce

Rachel Smith, Executive Director of the Australian Livestock and Rural Transporters Association, addresses an ongoing issue which cuts right across the transport industry, building a diverse and sustainable workforce.
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waiting, waiting, waiting

Waiting, Waiting, Waiting

All of that time wasted sitting in trucks, in queues at distribution centres, at port gates, or in the never-ending roadwork queues, which the road transport industry has to put up with day and day out, has not been wasted, we are used to waiting, waiting, waiting. It may have prepared our industry for the long wait for some rational legislation around our industry to emerge.
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