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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 [...]

I have to thank Oliver Dixon from the World Trucks blog for pointing etruck towards this story in Reuters. The report talks about a story due to appear in the German ‘Manager Magazin’ suggesting Volkswagen may use MAN to take a stake in Isuzu trucks. So far, no detail of any offer has been reported [...]

Every truckie thinks they are the best driver on the road, it comes with the job. Well, now there’s a chance to put your money where your mouth is. It’s the last week of entries to the Scania Young Australian Truck Driver of the Year competition. By young, they mean under 40, so if you [...]

The finalists are all lined up and ready to go in the Young European Truck Driver of the Year competition being held in Sweden by Scania. They claim they are the best truck drivers in the world but I reckon there might be a few Aussies and maybe even some Yanks who might want to [...]

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 [...]

It’s great news that the Scania Young Australian Truck Driver is on again this year. Open to any truckie under 40 who wants to give it a go, the YATD 2010 will be a chance to show off trucking’s positive image to the wider world while rewarding those who take a professional attitude to truck [...]

This video is the first chance we, here in Australia, have had to take the new Scania G Series out on the road to see how it performs. This is also the first successful filming in a cab whilst driving, thanks to etruck’s new Gorilla tripod.

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 [...]