Here’s a great video produced by Australian Geographic about the life of one truckie in Australia. Claire Strasburg is a young livestock carter, committed to keeping Australia’s beef industry
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Benz robot truck
“The truck of the future is a Mercedes-Benz that drives itself,” reckons Dr. Wolfgang Bernhard, the member of Daimler’s Board of Management responsible for Daimler Trucks.
He was speaking
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Bad day for Linfox
Here is the kind of footage on YouTube which could give a company a bad name. On the clip it is impossible to read the name on the door of the lunatic Linfox subbie who drives like this, but it’s
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McAleese heavyweights
Great vid giving us an insight into life on the road for some of the heavy haulage operators moving the big stuff for McAleese. Some well shot footage demonstrates just how effective the self steering
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Cleaning up Linfox
A new truck cleaning system, based in the Port Hedland Linfox operation, is claimed to be an Australian first. Replacing a traditional truck washing set up, which required five hours work for three
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Dutch Platooning planned
The prospect of seeing tightly packed truck convoys on the highway, controlled by the lead truck, running nose to tail to conserve fuel, has become a little closer this week with the announcement
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Relaxing motorbike rules
As of July 1 NSW are relaxing the rules on motorbikes to allow lane filtering. This means motorbikes can legally travel between queuing lines of traffic as long as the speed is below 30 kph. This is simply
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Beating up Austrans
These two videos reinforce the point Diesel News has to return to again and again, the reputation of the trucking industry is not just besmirched by truckies doing the wrong thing. The general media also
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Keeping it close
This promotional video for a truck platooning system shows just what this kind of system can and cannot do. Studies have shown there is a 4.5 per cent fuel saving for the truck in front and a 10 per cent
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Special driving skills
Truckies around the world have to be up for many difficulties. It is never an easy job but there are some occasions when the drivers really have to come into their own. This video is a case in point, the
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