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etruck got the chance to test out the first of what could be a Chinese invasion of trucks on the Australian market. Foton are the first cab off the rank with JAC following soon. For China the Australian market is a good test bed, it is a Western style market with sophisticated customers and tight [...]

Here is an interview with the CEO of Westport being very bullish about the chances of LNG powered trucks selling in big numbers. Yes, the technology works well and efficiently. Yes, Natural Gas is cheap when compared to oil. Yes, the cost per kilometre is much lower than for a diesel engine. But, and it’s [...]

The next brand to arrive on Australian shores will be the JAC brand. These trucks are made in Hefei, China and etruck recently paid a visit to the company’s manufacturing facilities. This video shows some of the trucks, destined for the Chinese market, being organised at the JAC holding facility for newly built trucks. They [...]

Here’s a first look at the Cummins engine of the future, the new ISX15, to be released in the US next year to meet the very stringent US EPA 2010 exhaust emission rules. The engine will use EGR and SCR. In the video, Steve Charlton, vice president of heavy-duty engineering for Cummins, provides a walkaround [...]

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 acceptance by Kenworth of the idea of fitting SCR on one of their trucks shows how well the two technologies needed to get engines over the line and compliant with ADR 80/02 have been received by the Australian transport industry.   The new truck unveiled at the Brisbane Truck Show last week is [...]

  2008 may be the year natural gas, in all its forms, finally gets a bit of credibility in the transport industry in Australia. On the evidence of the recent Brisbane Truck Show the truck manufacturers are now taking gas power seriously and on the evidence of operator interest at the the same show, gas [...]

One of the truck industry’s gentlemen has been honoured by the Australian Trucking Association at their annual awards dinner on the Gold Coast when Ross McDonald of Cummins South Pacific recieved the 2009 Don Watson Memorial Award for lifetime achievement. He was presented the award by Noelene Watson, seen here with ATA Chairman Trevor Martyn.  

Long time US truck market commentator Oliver Dixon is casting doubt on the long term future of Cummins as a supplier of heavy duty truck engines, saying the ISX is likely to disappear form the company’s offering in the next few years.