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Scania have come up with a cruise control system which uses GPS to know when it is approaching an ascent or descent and acting accordingly to save fuel. This video goes through the way the system works and how effective it can be but also reveals they have only mapped Europe so far. It’s going [...]

Long time UK trucking blogger, Brian Weatherley gets a lesson in truck driving to get his fuel consumption down. The founder of the Big Lorry Blog tries his best to keep fuel use to a minimum but when instructed how to save fuel makes a serious improvement.

Here is more evidence about a fact everyone in trucking knows to be true but always seem to forget when running a transport operation. Getting the pressures right on the tyres, making sure the wheel alignment on a combination is correct and specifying the right tyres can save you plenty in running costs. Volvo have [...]

Here in Australia we have seen a series of wonder cures coming on sale to solve the problem of high diesel prices and as they crash and burn, another lot of wonder solutions come up with enthusiastic claims to cut fuel costs dramatically. I am not trying to be disparaging about this particular technology on [...]

As global warming becomes a more serious and well accepted problem, while global oil resources reach their peak, some real practical alternative methods of shifting freight from A to B have to be developed. Every week a new version of a new automotive fuel seems to appear and the claims made about the virtues of [...]

  The fuel subsidy rebate keeping diesel prices lower in the Sunshine State than elsewhere in Australia may be dropped in the 2009/2010 budget, to be announced soon by the Queensland Government.   The transport industry from all over Australia has benefited from cheaper diesel when they visit north of the border as the Labor [...]

Some worrying information about the legal implications or mixing your own bio diesel on site as a transport operator have been recently highlighted by the Australian Trucking Association’s weekly newsletter, The Friday Facts.

The ever increasing diesel prices rises are expected to fall next year according to a report by the International Energy Agency (IEA).