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This last weekend saw the unveiling of the new Caterpillar trucks for the Australian market. This was a world premiere, the first time a Caterpillar highway truck has been launched. The company behind the new brand launch, NC², is a joint venture between Navistar, who own International Trucks, and Caterpillar themselves. The launch itself was [...]

The profile of the Navistar Corporation has become quite high in recent months and we can expect it to remain high for the next few months as well. The company have a reputation for talking big and have taken an aggressive stance when dealing with their competitors in the North American market, including a lawsuit [...]

When considering the latest truck brand to enter the Australian truck market the question we need to ask, is about exactly what is an NC2 truck going to be? The inclusion of the C 13 in the first models keeps that Cat legacy going for the Cat enthusiasts and the new MaxxForce 15 is based [...]

The presentation by the people from NC2 at the Melbourne Truck Show was the first chance for many people to see what this new beast will look like. Unfortunately, there were no actual vehicles, in the metal, and even the pictures provided appear to be artists impressions. For those who know the trucking industry in [...]

GeoTagged, [S37.81294, W144.96571] The big news of the first day of the Melbourne Truck Show is the release of a new truck brand. The Navistar/Caterpillar joint venture, NC2, have launched the CAT truck brand, to be built in Melbourne. The initial models, the CT 610 and the CT 630, will be powered by the Cat [...]

In the buildup to exhaust emission regulation changes for heavy trucks around the world, the debate about the pros and cons of exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) and selective catalytic reduction (SCR) keeps on rearing its ugly head. The debate is currently raging in the USA with engine makers casting aspersions on their rivals technology and [...]

As the Australian economy starts to pick up, businesses here have come through the global financial crisis relatively unscathed, when compared to those in other parts of the world, especially in the US and Europe. From the transport industry’s point of view some of the problems created by the crisis in the truck industry may [...]

The Caterpillar Institute (Vic-Tas), a joint venture between Victorian and Tasmanian Cat dealer, William Adams, and Caterpillar of Australia, has been named Victorian Small Training Provider of the Year. The Victorian Training Awards celebrate excellence across the Victorian vocational education and training system.

The latest heavy duty engine sales figures demonstrate Caterpillar’s continuing fall in market share among US truck buyers. As Cat fell from 20% to 12% in the first six months of 2008, Cummins rose to 40% from 32% share of the top end of the heavy duty market.

A series of announcements this week from Caterpillar cast doubt over the engine makers long term future as a supplier of engines to some truck makers, calling into question their position in Australia over the next five years.