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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.

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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 on [...]

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 [...]

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.

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The idea of electric trucks is suddenly becoming more viable and here is Kevin Beck, one of the guys from Smith Electric vehicles, talking about the Smith Newton in Washington DC yesterday.

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The cable TV show ‘Ice Road Truckers’ is due back on our screens soon and it will be a chance to get ourselves reaquainted with the disparate characters taking the risks and reaping the rewards hauling equipment and supplies into the diamond mines in Canada’s frozen far north.
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The show’s success is not the over-hyping [...]

Here are a couple of good videos posted up onto YouTube in HD of a parade of trucks at the Mid America Truck Show recently.
 
Watch out for the low rider dropping the front bumper almost to the ground before setting off. Some of these trucks look to be a liability out on the road and [...]