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Here is some more footage from the Brisbane Truck Show and Mick, from OztruckinTV, gets three industry stalwarts to tell us a bit about their trucks. All three, Ian, Paul and Lloyd, are enthusiastic about the trucks, but also the industry as a whole. These are the sort of people who make trucking a good, [...]

The Scania R 730 is due to be unveiled to Australia at the Brisbane Truck Show in a few weeks but etruck has got a preview of it in advance of the big reveal. The truck was involved in a photo shoot at the home of the Dick Johnson Racing team. Australia’s original V8 Supercar [...]

The recent run by etruck across the Nullarbor from Perth to Melbourne was quite a trip. We would probably regard it as an adventure, but etruck met people out there for whom the run is a weekly reality. In many ways life out on the Eyre Highway is like trucking was ten or twenty years [...]

On etruck’s continuing trek across Australia, the latest stop is at Iron Knob. This is a well known name on the Australian map and the source of occasional giggles in primary school geography lessons. The name comes from the giant hill in the background made from pure iron ore and quarried out for export to [...]

This is a quick snapshot of one of the great trucking journeys of the world, crossing the Nullarbor Plain from Perth in Western Australia across to the Eastern States. This shot was quickly grabbed as the sun was rising, as the truck travels East along the ‘Ninety Mile Straight’, 146 km of dead straight two-lane [...]

The tour of Western Victoria sees our Scania R480 semi test drive parked up for a late breakfast in Warrnambool on the coast in SW Victoria. The Henty Highway gave the truck’s suspension as well as the cab’s a considerable workout. It is quite a fast road but with a terrible surface. It’s easy to [...]

For the next couple of days etruck is out testing the new Scania R Series in Western Victoria. The model is an R480 pulling a single trailer at about 40 tonnes. It is pretty new and the picture shows the odo just about to click over the first 1000 km while sitting in the Melbourne [...]

The latest version of the Scania R Series truck has been unveiled in Sweden and features an upgrade of the model range. Apart from a few exterior design changes, Scania have listened to criticism of the previous model and tried to come up with solutions. One of the aspects to receive an upgrade is the [...]