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The two words Hino and sophistication rarely appear in the same sentence. The Japanese brand is synonymous with no nonsense trucks to do a task. However, the introduction of the ZF AS Tronic automated manual gear box on the SS model brings a genuine sophistication to the driveline. etruck has spent the day driving from [...]

Hino gave etruck a chance to have a first drive of the new ZF AS Tronic in the 700 Series SS prime mover hauling a single trailer around a test track here in Queensland. First impressions are of a well integrated driveline with changes smooth and easy. We know the gearbox from its other installations [...]

In a first outside of Japan, Hino in Australia have released a 700 Series prime mover fitted with a ZF AS Tronic automated manual gearbox onto the market. This move brings a high level of auto transmission sophistication to a part of the market which is crying out for such technology on a Japanese truck. [...]

The second truck to be tested by etruck in the Hino range was the new Hino Auto Dump. This is a small tipper straight out of the factory in Tokyo with a tipper body already attached. The most important aspect is the fully automatic gearbox, it makes this truck really able to be driven like  [...]

The truck test drive menu in Sydney this week starts with an 8 tonne GVM hybrid truck being trialled by Hino. If this model becomes something Hino are going to sell in the Australian market, it will be the first time the company have sold this kind of hybrid outside of Japan. In Australia it [...]

GeoTagged, [S33.63184, W151.15020] Today etruck is testing a new Hino truck, the FM 2632, set up as a short wheelbase tipper. This model fills the gap between the lower powered FM and the heavier 700 Series. It is a 6×4 with a 320 hp engine driving through an 11 speed Roadranger and seems quite a [...]

Hino Australia has launched a three-year unlimited kilometre warranty on all its genuine parts from 1 October 2008. Hino claims the offer is unmatched by any Japanese truck brand in the market.

Hino has made its Easy Start technology standard equipment on all its manual transmission 300 Series light duty models (including Hybrid), and on all two-wheel drive manual transmission 500 Series medium-duty trucks. Easy Start is designed to automatically prevent the truck from rolling backwards when starting off on steep inclines, uphill and downhill.

Hino has begun a campaign which they say could result in up to $250,000 of fuel being given to owners in the next five weeks. The company says cost of operation has become the single most important operational consideration of people who drive trucks for a living or who use trucks as a tool of [...]

Australia’s leading off-road racing team is claiming a rough-terrain mileage record for its race vehicle transporter. Peter Kittle Racing has clocked up more than 120,000 kilometres across Australia in its Hino Ranger Pro, more than 50 per cent of it on bush tracks and corrugated gravel.