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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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Blame the truck

There’s statistics and then there are damn lies. The road crash stats consistently show accidents involving trucks are over represented in the numbers. What is not made clear, is how often the other
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What did we learn from Brisbane?

If you missed the Brisbane Show this video gives a taste of the event and the main attractions.   So, what did we learn, what’s new?   Firstly, we learnt the use of ‘black light’
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Skilling up at Brisbane

Yes, the Brisbane Truck Show is all about the latest and greatest technology and showing off new models for sale in the Australian market, but there other priorities for the organisers. The Brisbane show
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Self driving truck premiered

In a launch at the Hoover Dam on the border of Nevada and Arizona in the US, Freightliner premiered its newest innovation. The spectacular dam was the scene of a massive projection display on the dam wall itself, powerful enough to get into the Guinness Book of Records. The crowd, including TV crews from all over the USA, watched from the edge of the dam as the projection show lit up the night. Then the spotlights picked out the new autonomous truck as it crested the mountain in the distance and weaved its way towards the dam, through the desert landscape.
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Save fuel and increase safety

New technology to get even more out of the current truck designs is being experimented with around the world, by simply enabling trucks to run closer to the truck in front, without compromising safety. Here is a simple-to-understand video giving us the basics of just how platooning works in trucks. This shows us the EcoTwin project from DAF with two trucks, wirelessly linked via WiFi, driving at a close distance with the driver in the second truck not needing to accelerate, brake or steer.
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New kids on the block

At the upcoming Brisbane Truck Show, this is the kind of image the reintroduction of the International brand will be trying to create, plenty of bling and loud rock music, with a Lonestar. However, this is not the image or the truck which will make or break the brand in Australia. That job will fall to another truck, the ProStar, to do the heavy lifting and get truck sales on the board.
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Women Truckies on the road

A young female truck driver from Estonia is featured in this short video. It gives us a perspective into the life of a truck driving women in a virtually all-male environment. the culture in Eastern Europe
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Red Light Truckie

Here is another example of stupidity around trucks. Unfortunately, this time, it is the truckie who gets it all wrong. This kind of carelessness or complete lack of attention makes the the life of those,
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Slammin’ Sam

“When was a trucker last given the keys to the city, or a knighthood?” It’s just one of the great lines from this YouTube ad for Paccar Parts, where Sam ‘Truckovich’ (AKA Kekovich)
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