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Twitterverse Unveiled

Twitterverse Unveiled

The Twitterverse unveiled an improvement in Melbourne’s traffic chaos, the road to autonomous trucks and price rises Relieving traffic chaos in Melbourne New lanes on the CityLink are opening ahead
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Progress on the Project

Diesel News is looking at progress on the National Heavy Vehicle Regulator project, which is destined to take a long time to reach fruition. The trucking industry has had to wait a long time to see even the glimmer of a rational national regulatory system for heavy vehicles across the country. The many years of competing state legislation creating nightmares for interstate operators and filling the revenue coffers with unwarranted fines are, hopefully, now behind us.
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Familiar-Looking Chinese Truck

Familiar-Looking Chinese Truck

The JMC Conquer is a familiar-looking Chinese truck. It appears to be based on the Isuzu N Series, not surprising after JMC’s previous cooperation with the Japanese truck maker. The cab is clearly closely
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Award Winners, Freight Routes, FIRS and Primary Producers

This week’s headlines from Diesel News include Award Winners, Freight Routes, FIRS and Primary Producers. This video is of Les Bruzsa’s acceptance speech after receiving the Australian Trucking Association Industry Achievement Award for leading continuous improvement in heavy vehicle regulation and standards. Also presented at the dinner as part of the 2017 Australian Trucking Association (ATA)/Australian Road Transport Suppliers’ Association (ARTSA) Technical and Maintenance Conference (TMC), Mark Collins from Frasers Livestock Transport received the 2017 Craig Roseneder Award, which recognises technical and maintenance excellence and celebrates the professionalism of men and women who work behind the scenes in the trucking industry’s workshops.
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Highway Hero, Hino Expansion, VW Plan and Cummins Getting Batteries

We hear about a Highway Hero, Hino Expansion, VW Plan and Cummins Getting Batteries in Diesel News this week. Capability and confidence is at a high for Hino with increased involvement from five of Australia’s largest automotive and commercial vehicle retail groups. “During 2017 and 2018, we will open three new Hino dealerships and upgrade four existing sites to meet increased demand,” said Bill Gillespie, Hino Australia’s General Manager Brand and Franchise Development. “It is significant that we have increased investment from five of Australia’s largest automotive and commercial vehicle retail groups in key locations across the country, namely Automotive Holding Group/AHG (Coffs Harbour), Sci Fleet (Eagle Farm, Brisbane), CMV Group (Laverton, Melbourne), AP Eagers (Mascot, Sydney) and the Suttons family-owned group (Arndell Park, Sydney).
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When the Smartest Chemists Choose Coolants

SPONSORED POST   When the smartest chemists choose coolants, the world’s most experienced chemists know to use only advanced cooling solutions in their vehicles. And they know this because they know the precision and technology that goes into the formulae used in modern coolants. Read More

Passion for Trucking

If there is one thing we can see every day in our industry, it is how people have a genuine passion for their job, or their truck. It’s difficult to work out where this passion might come from, and the people who are passionate about their job will also give you chapter and verse of everything that is wrong with the industry.
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Truck Testing With Linfox

The truck manufacturers do a lot of their truck testing with Linfox or, more precisely, at a Linfox facility. The Australian Automotive Research Centre (AARC) is near Anglesea in the Otway Forest Park, just inland from Anglesea, on Victoria’s Great Ocean Road.
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Future Proofing Trucking

Future-Proofing Trucking

The rate of change in the trucking industry looks to be increasing, and trucking operators need to be prepared for the brave new world of trucking we are likely to be living in, it needs to be future proofing
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