Video

Auto Buzz Words

It’s the new buzz word this year, autonomous driving. There had been some talk of future trucks and truck platooning in the past couple of years, but now truck technology seems to have made a quantum
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Freight Robots

The Patrick Terminal at Botany Bay is claimed to be the largest auto-straddle terminal of its kind in the world. This is the corporate video the company has released to mark the opening of the facility.
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How to Destroy a Truck

This exercise, by Ryder in the US, shows us how to wreck a truck. It’s a pity the rebuilding of the truck is not as lovingly covered in the video as the lingering shots of the truck getting destroyed.
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A Flying Truck

Here we have a spectacular jump made by a crazy truck driver who gets to ramp jump his truck 166 feet (50.6 metres) over a parked B-double. The event took place in Butte, Montana and has got stuntman Gregg
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Running a road train off the road

Here an eerie video, it’s hard to see what is going on but the subtitles tell the tale as it unfolds. This is a typical incident on our roads, which sums up what the road experience is like for many
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Block the roads

It takes a lot of provocation, but the truckies of Australia have, on several occasions, been driven to block the major highways to make their point. This video celebrates the most famous, the Razorback
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Let’s have some real reality

Globally, Volvo have been  spending a lot of time and effort in the video space in the past few years. There were, of course, the series of stunt YouTube videos, culminating with Jean Claude Van Damme
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Cat’s latest stunt

Here is another of what is becoming a growing trend, truck manufacturers making stunt videos with their trucks and posting them up on YouTube. The videos rarely have any real relevance to the act of trying to sell the truck to the customer. They are often about engaging the viewer, upping awareness of the brand and, perhaps highlighting one of the features of the truck. Of course, this is followed by the obligatory behind the scenes video:
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Reality from Volvo

This is a trailer for a new set of videos from Volvo. It’s the latest in, what is becoming, a long line of videos released on YouTube by the Swedish truck maker designed to pique the interest of
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Anything you can do……

After the massive Freightliner autonomous truck show at the Hoover Dam last month, rival truck builder Peterbilt have come up with their take on the subject. Studiously avoiding the word ‘autonomous’
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