Here are a couple of videos about young people coming into the industry in an area where trucking operations are desperate, that is diesel mechanics, here we are giving young people an example to follow into the workshop.
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Positive Outcomes from Women Truck Drivers
Here are a couple of videos outlining the positive outcomes from women truck drivers increasing in the industry. In fact, the drive-to increase the number of women behind the wheel in trucks should be a no-brainer.
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A Kenworth History Lesson
In this video classic restoration enthusiast, Fletch, gives us a Kenworth history lesson about the introduction of the iconic brand to the Australian truck market.
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Painting a Truck With Light
PowerTorque readers will get an exclusive story in the next issue of the magazine, when our European Correspondent, Will Shiers, reports on his test drive of the Renault Trucks Diamond Echo electric demonstration vehicle which displays an innovative design, involving painting a truck with light.
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Is Hydrogen Efficient Enough?
As the debate about how we are going to power trucking in the future, the question being asked in this video is this, is hydrogen efficient enough? An Australian, Professor David Cebon, Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Cambridge University in the UK and a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, talks to Jim Park about the efficiency concerns he has around the real cost of hydrogen trucking.
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Looking at the Cummins Hydrogen Option
Here is a video, set in India, but looking at the zero emission transition for trucking and for heavy duty long distance tasks around the world, by looking at the Cummins hydrogen option with an internal combustion engine using the gas.
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Improving Reversing Skills
One of the issues for the trucking industry as the freight task grows and the skilled drivers retire is improving reversing skills around the industry, especially with multiple combination set-ups.
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Not Like Any Kenworth You’ve Seen Before
Here is the latest truck to be unveiled by the Paccar truck development team in the US and as we can plainly see it is not like any Kenworth you’ve seen before. This is the SuperTruck 2, which was developed over a six year period as part of a collaboration with the US Government’s Department of Energy’s (DOE) SuperTruck program.
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Crank up the Volume for a Cat 3048 V8
To really appreciate this video you need crank up the volume for a Cat 3048 V8 and get to feel the sound of this thumping 18 litre engine hauling a couple of trailers through from South Australia
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The Celebrated Cummins 555 and V904 V8 Engines
On PowerTorque’s tour of the V8 and two stroke engines in trucking history, we now come to the celebrated Cummins 555 and V903 and their distinctive crackling engines and their distinctive engine notes.
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