The last twenty-plus months have been a nightmare for the entire globe, but our industry has been one of those essential services which has kept Australia going through the pandemic, now we need to think about trucking surviving covid-19.
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Getting Trucks Bogged
It’s official, we are now heading in to a La Niña weather event and can expect plenty of rain for the next period of time, which means there’s going to be a lot of people getting trucks bogged.
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Truck Innovation of the Year
DAF’s XF Hydrogen, a prototype of a hydrogen-fuelled heavy-duty truck with an internal combustion engine has won the 2022 Truck Innovation of the Year.
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A Diverse and High Profile Transport Company
From a modest start in 2005 with just a few trucks hauling steel on local and regional routes, Sean Carren has moulded Goldstar Transport into a diverse and high profile transport company.
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Dealing with Covid in Rural Trucking
Here’s a rare thing, a TV report about the trucking industry which is not negative about our industry, and outlines the issues around dealing with Covid in rural trucking. This Sky News Business Reporter, Ed Boyd, actually gets out there and talks to those involved in the industry with genuine knowledge about what’s going on in the the current climate.
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Award Winning Truck Show
In the middle of this pandemic, people from all over Australia got the chance to enjoy this year’s Brisbane Truck Show, and now the event is an award winning truck show. BTS21 has been announced as Best Live or Hybrid Congress, Conference or Exhibition at the Australian Event Awards.
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Trucks of the Future – Andreas Tostmann
It very rare we get a chance to talk to those people at the very top of the truck manufacturing game, but when we do we can see just where the trucks of the future are going to go. This time it’s a chance for the President of the International Truck of the Year Jury, Gianenrico Griffini to interview Andreas Tostmann, CEO of MAN.
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Electric Trucks are Inevitable
There is no need to keep your head in the sand, the fact of the matter is electric trucks are inevitable, around the world, and here in Australia. If they are inevitably going to become part of our lives then we need to understand them and work out how they can be used in the future Australian trucking industry.
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Trucks vs Caravans
It’s that time of year again, as the Australian grey nomad migration begins it’s move from the North of the country towards the South, as it warms up through spring, bringing with it the the issues around trucks vs caravans, yet again.
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Western Star 47X Joins the New X-Series Range
As the Western Star 47X joins the new X-Series range, both last year’s 49X and the new 47X from Western Star are headed for Australia in right-hand-drive in around a year, reckons PowerTorque’s US Correspondent, Steve Sturgess. He has been checking the new models out.
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