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Rubbish Robots

Autonomous vehicles and robots seem to be the flavour of the month. This video shows the latest idea from Volvo, a robot collecting waste bins and loading them into a garbage compactor. Note, the actual
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Irish Trucking

Diesel News is not quite sure what is going on here, but it looks like truckies in Ireland are having a great time. This video is made by someone called Marty Mone and the words to the song seem to be
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An Accident Waiting to Happen

The most distressing thing about this video is how normal everything is, how the truck is calmly heading down the road, not going too fast, then boom! This is the kind of video  drivers need to see on
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Building for the Future

This is how you build a truck dealership. The video shows the construction of a new facility on a green field site in Queensland by Kenworth and DAF dealers, Brown and Hurley. Often in business, there are two possible ways of looking at the future. You can either take a short term gain approach, or take a long term view on where you are going, and build for the future. Unsurprisingly, those enterprises which take on the more considered long term philosophy also tend to hang around for a long time. Read More

Around the world

We complain about the terrible conditions our trucks have to work in and talk about Australia being so tough on trucks. Just watch some of the things drivers from around the world have to put up with,
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Merry Christmas To All!

It’s that time of year again, when we get all sentimental and the TV is full of snow, reindeer and men in red suits. It would seem it also the time for red Coca Cola trucks to appear around the world
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Four Year Old Tries to Wreck Truck

Here is the latest of what is now becoming a long list of YouTube videos, in which Volvo try and take branding videos beyond the normal advertising genre and create something interesting and arresting
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Loading up

Getting an awkward load onto a container can be a pain, but this system looks to have plenty of limitations. Even if it is quick!   Quick loading and unloading turnarounds are getting more and more
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Playing with the Big Boys

We all stop and watch when a monster load comes though. The sheer size of what is being moved grabs the attention and makes us sit there and feel some admiration for the skill and technology making the
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Bring on the Bling

This video shows how to set up the most glamorous and expensive truck ever to roll out of Mack’s Brisbane factory. It has been handed over to its new royal owner, Malaysia’s Sultan of Johor.       The
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