a fully formed truck with a lot of potential

A Fully Formed Truck With a Lot of Potential 

By introducing the 8×4 Quon model now, UD is arriving in a market in which it has not competed before with a fully formed truck with a lot of potential customers’ boxes ticked from the outset. The safety and telematics packages which comes as standard on all product emanating from the Volvo Group means this truck is at the leading edge of the kind of high tech being introduced into Australia’s truck fleets.
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new eight litre Quon package

New Eight Litre Quon Package

The level of sophistication included in the new eight litre Quon package puts it ahead of the Japanese pack in this segment of the market. The new truck sees the Volvo Group, taking the elements from UD with have seen the brand sell well in the 6 x 2 rigid segment, at the lighter end of the heavy duty market. We have seen UD prime movers transformed, and now we are seeing the rigid heavy duty market similarly changed.
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UD Trucks’ smooth operator

UD Trucks’ Smooth Operator

By combining the Quon cab and an 8 litre engine, we now have UD Trucks’ smooth operator at the lighter and of heavy duty truck market, Diesel News tests one of the new trucks in and around Brisbane.
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The transformation of Japanese designed trucks

The Transformation of Japanese Designed Trucks

The transformation of Japanese designed trucks in the past 10 years shows the influence of European ownership, plus the perceived need by Japanese industry to open up to global ideas has taken hold in Japan. The big four Japanese truck makers no longer make a truck to suit Japanese buyers and then adapt it as an afterthought for export markets, the outside world is part of the initial design scope. Read More
Collecting Recycling Waste

Collecting Recycling Waste

Most of the work handled by the Bettatrans fleet from Adelaide involves collecting recycling waste from Coles and Woolworths locations and bringing it into transfer stations. This work is handled by compactors
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