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Trucking the Highways with Instagram

Trucking the Highways with Instagram

This week, while Diesel News is Trucking the Highways with Instagram, we have come across, Rod Hannifey, Smart Art on a truck, a Shiny Double Tanker and a Tow-in. Truck campaigner, Rod Hannifey, filming
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Positives and Negatives in the Trucking Twitterverse

This week we are looking at both positives and negatives in the trucking twitterverse, with anti-truck campaigns, drones, parking bays and safe tippers. Anti-truck groups already getting fired up about the building of the new tunnel in Melbourne. Expect plenty of aggravation on this topic for quite some time.
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Have Drone, Will Travel

Have Drone, Will Travel

Trucking videos have been transformed by the ‘Have Drone, Will Travel’ brigade who are coming up with quality material in the wilder trucking environments. This is an example of the genre, by Danny
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Running A Risk

Running A Risk

Running any kind of transport operation means you are always running a risk, when it’s a small livestock and bulk operation hauling around inland NSW and Queensland, you also need the right stuff to
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Industry Is Paying Too Much

“The industry is paying too much now and the industry is subject to too much regulation now,” says Dave Coonan. A long-time campaigner for the trucking industry, David’s time at the Australian Trucking Association (ATA) saw him battling the legislators and bureaucrats, toe to toe, on a daily basis.
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Improve Truck Braking

Researchers in Europe are working to improve truck braking and looking at ways to achieve a quantum leap in brake performance. One of them presented their work to other truck and trailer engineers at the 14th Heavy Vehicle Transport Technology, held in Rotorua in New Zealand. Read More

Brake Testing, B-Triples, Fatigue, Bridges and the Return of the Self-Clearing Defect

The last week in trucking has seen Brake Testing, B-Triples, Fatigue, Bridges and the Return of the Self Clearing Defect make an appearance. The National Heavy Vehicle Regulator (NHVR) has reintroduced the self-clearing defect notice for heavy-vehicle defects that do not pose a safety risk. “This category will allow minor non-safety-related defects to be rectified by the operator, including where a vehicle’s number plate is obscured or illegible,” said Sal Petroccitto, NHVR CEO. “A self-clearing defect notice means the operator does not have to present the vehicle to an approved person to clear the notice.
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Truck Sales Take Off, Flynn Liquidation, Isuzu Bullbars and Penske Expansion

The news in the world of trucks this week includes Truck Sales Taking Off, Flynn Liquidation, Isuzu Bullbars, Groeneveld Takeover and a Penske Expansion. The latest sales figures released by the Truck Industry Council (TIC) suggest an optimistic trucking industry is starting to invest in more new trucks at the heavier end of the market. Although the light- and medium-duty markets have been relatively strong in recent years, the heavy-duty segment has been less dynamic.
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Ravaglioli Commercial Vehicle Wireless Mobile Column Lifts

In-House Skill Set

The organisation within Wakefield Trucks feels like a family business, which has its own in-house skill set. Like many of its clients. Eighty per cent of the people working on the floor in the workshop
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