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GeoTagged, [S33.63184, W151.15020] Today etruck is testing a new Hino truck, the FM 2632, set up as a short wheelbase tipper. This model fills the gap between the lower powered FM and the heavier 700 Series. It is a 6×4 with a 320 hp engine driving through an 11 speed Roadranger and seems quite a [...]

Road rage car driver attacks truck http://bit.ly/GMPt8 # Strange looking truck recalled http://www.etruck.com.au/cp3 # Another strange looking truck, the Paymaster http://www.etruck.com.au/ngk # Truck theft of rocks? http://www.etruck.com.au/y8l # Formula One truck photos http://www.etruck.com.au/s97 #

Getting a truck up onto its hind legs takes some doing http://bit.ly/19AghB # Nice looking Scania with V8 sound http://bit.ly/Lxbnf # Teardrop truck body to save fuel http://www.etruck.com.au/ege # 240 km range for an electric prime mover! http://www.etruck.com.au/d12 # Extra long trailers in Italy http://www.etruck.com.au/arm # PBS review analysed by Bob Murphy also known as [...]

Here’s a very simple but practical way of avoiding the struggle to couple and uncouple trailers. Everything can be done standing on the ground improving safety and cutting dowwn on the mess susies can make on your cloths fighting with them on the gantry behind the cab. Click link below to see video.

The National Transport Commission have just released a draft position paper where they set out some ideas for the development of an electronic work diary to replace the current hand written book introduced late last year. Let’s hope they have learned the lessons of the introduction of the Intelligent Access Program and look for a [...]

Three prime movers and one trailer up the Toowoomba Range http://bit.ly/dTngJ # Drivers view taking a Superliner V8 up the Toowoomba Range, sounds great! http://bit.ly/16BUir # Talking to the top guns at Iveco http://www.etruck.com.au/ddi # Hino and Isuzu struggle in Japan http://www.etruck.com.au/tu1 # Selling MAN to the Chinese? Volvo deal with Dongfeng http://www.etruck.com.au/84b #

Nice looking customised Pete, black low rider truck http://bit.ly/ldOVP # Double road train in HD, somewhere in SA? http://bit.ly/3cc2K # It's not going well at Navistar either! http://www.etruck.com.au/1xl #

Every year one of the highlights for some lucky people is a trip to the big European truck shows. They alternate between Hannover IAA in even numbered years and the Amsterdam RAI in odd numbered years. This year, there is to be no show, the organising committee of the European Road Transport Show (TERTS) have [...]

A truck driver showing how bikies can learn to live with trucks http://bit.ly/13uqta # Natural Gas Freightliner http://www.etruck.com.au/cts # Seddons with a Deutz engine? http://www.etruck.com.au/bd6 # Unconventional and overlength furniture truck http://www.etruck.com.au/97q # Great Australian truck technology http://www.etruck.com.au/rtq # Trucks to move the Ferrari team, they need all the help they can get at the [...]

The 50th Anniversary of the introduction of seat belts is another chance to run this great bit of video demonstrating how effective they are in saving lives. The driver would have been killed by his free-falling passenger.