The Supercars Championship is Australia’s leading motorsport series and PACCAR is a key sponsor and logistics partner, getting essential personnel and vital equipment to tracks all around the nation.
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Passionate People Produce
The crowning of Kenworth K220 as the Truck of the Year Australasia is a testament to the excellence of Paccar and the broad network of suppliers and their collective relentless pursuit of innovation, proof that passionate people produce.
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Cummins Meritor and the K220
One of the important selling points of the Truck of the Year Australia winner, is the relationship between Cummins Meritor and the K220 from Kenworth in the engine and drive axles. The majority of those trucks coming down the production line at Bayswater will be fitted with the Cummins Meritor rear end.
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A Large, Long and Complicated Task
Designing a new truck model is a large, long and complicated task, over a period of years. After the Kenworth K220 was presented with the Truck of the Year Australasia earlier this year, Tim Giles sat down with two of the Paccar design and engineering team, Brad May, Paccar Australia Chief Engineer and Ross Cureton, Director of Product Planning – PACCAR Australia to talk about the whole team behind the the creation of the final truck.
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Including a Global Platform in the K220
In the major design changes needed to create the 2023 Truck of the Year Australasia, an important aspect was including a global platform in the K220 from Kenworth.
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New Technology in the Truck of the Year Australasia
A new platform needed to be designed into the Kenworth K220 to enable advanced safety and other items to be included in new technology in the Truck of the Year Australasia.
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How Was the K220 Designed and Developed?
Awarded the 2023 Truck of the Year Australasia award, but how was the K220 designed and developed? PowerTorque spoke to some of the team behind its design, about how it was done.
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How Was the K220 Designed and Developed?
Awarded the 2023 Truck of the Year Australasia award, but how was the K220 designed and developed? PowerTorque spoke to some of the team behind its design, about how it was done.
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The Driving Experience in a K220
As they come online this year, and the new Kenworth models start to appear in fleets around the country, the driving experience in a K220 will become a topic of conversations, around preferences about the mix of old and new technology.
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A Tour of the K220 Dashboard
The strength of new developments from Kenworth is the way the brand manages to come up with a mix of the old and the new in its design and layout, as evidenced on a tour of the K220 dashboard. Quite a lot of the dashboard is a carry over from the K200, with some major differences.
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