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Crazy American celebrating the 28th birthday of his ageing truck http://bit.ly/H1S1e #
The trucks of Western Australia and the Northern Territory get pretty big http://bit.ly/t4JDF #
Old Spanish trucks on show
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This week, ABC’s New Inventors featured an invention from Queensland, the Chekway Eliminator, a suspension monitor used to locate and record where the worst potholes are on the roads. The system has been fitted in Rod Hannifey’s Truckright B-double to be used as he works up and down the eastern states.
Rod is a long time [...]

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

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.

more about "Electric trucks on show in US", posted with vodpod

A selection of Kenworth trucks from Lyons Transport http://bit.ly/wqmST #
Truck driver demonstrating how to change gears on the 16 speed Spicer gearbox http://bit.ly/Cab2f #
There's an awful lot of VWs in Brazil (trucks that is!) http://www.etruck.com.au/bht #
Big Booth's B-double in the mud http://www.etruck.com.au/q3t #
The story of the Scammell Contractor truck in Australia http://www.etruck.com.au/r66 #
60 Years of [...]

A series of great videos have been posted on You Tube recently depicting life 25 years ago for road train drivers. They follow the lives of several truckies hauling cattle and goods around the outback. The stories wouldn’t be much different today but the trucks would be much better, more powerful and with much improved [...]

Freightliner have spent a big marketing budget setting up something they call a ‘Grille to grille’ challenge. The idea is simple, take their new Cascadia on the road from truckstop to truckstop and let truckies have a go at driving the new model. The difference is they also brought along their biggest competitor, an International [...]

They don't make trucks like this anymore, thank god! http://bit.ly/35RCW #
Volvo doco about Simons' road train to Darwin http://bit.ly/xp1TJ #

RT @TRUCKRIGHT: TRUCKRIGHT Industry Vehicle will be on ABC New Inventors show Wednesday night 29th July about fixing roads. #
US truckies talking about the new Detroit Diesel DD 15 http://bit.ly/4Dpmz #
This is what Detroit's used to sound like. Truck fitted with a 12V71 starts up http://bit.ly/VJmde #
Is this the shape of Mercedes Ategos to come? [...]

Short video of Kenworth truck crashing into barrier http://bit.ly/4d9PP4 #
French truckies who buy American trucks http://www.etruck.com.au/waa #
Road trains in Brazil http://www.etruck.com.au/y2y #
Iowa 80 claimed to be the largest truck stop in the world http://bit.ly/Sw1VM #