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Here’s a fantastic video made by someone hauling cars on an extremely long car carrier with a Peterbilt at the front. The fast action and video editing make the mundane job of constantly loading and unloading cars almost exciting. The metal music may not be to everyone’s taste but just turn down the volume and [...]

etruck is back from holidays and has found this excellent film of a racing Freightliner Cascadia going for it in a race called ‘The Race to the Clouds’ climbing Mount Washington in the US. Well made and exciting, it shows just what a truck can do when pushed to the limits.

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 [...]

Here is a great video taken by a thoughtful truck driver in Canada. It may be about the reality for a truckie in North America but the reality of being a truckie has many common facets all over the globe. more about “Life of a trucker“, posted with vodpod

Along with the issue of a driver shortage in the US comes driving schools which are simply box ticking businesses putting truck drivers out on the highway with no experience and no idea how to handle a truck. The rookie driver interviewed is TruckerDesiree who can be followed on Twitter at http://twitter.com/TruckerDesiree who was unleashed [...]

This video shows a Navistar engineer demonstrating their latest engine offering, the 13 litre Maxxforce built to comply with the extremely tough US EPA 2010 exhaust emission regulations. Based on the 13 litre MAN engine, the new power plant has to use every trick in the book to keep the emissions down low enough to [...]

US truck manufacturer, Navistar, have come up with a silly TV show to publicise their new range of engines,, coming out soon, to meet the 2010 exhaust emission rules. The quiz show takes place in a truck stop and sees an unsuspecting truckie answering questions about the new engines to be fitted in the International [...]

Mack Trucks in the US have announced the move from their old World HQ in Allentown, Pennsylvania to a new purpose-built HQ building in Greensboro, North Carolina alongside Volvo’s North American HQ.

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 [...]

Here’s another video from fleetowner.com with Kansas City Power & Light’s William Herdegen explaining why all-electric trucks make a good fit for his fleet. more about "Buying electric trucks", posted with vodpod