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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 [...]

Here is some more footage from the Brisbane Truck Show and Mick, from OztruckinTV, gets three industry stalwarts to tell us a bit about their trucks. All three, Ian, Paul and Lloyd, are enthusiastic about the trucks, but also the industry as a whole. These are the sort of people who make trucking a good, [...]

Every truckie thinks they are the best driver on the road, it comes with the job. Well, now there’s a chance to put your money where your mouth is. It’s the last week of entries to the Scania Young Australian Truck Driver of the Year competition. By young, they mean under 40, so if you [...]

Here is the exciting last round of the Young European Truck Driver, won by Andreas Soderstromm from Sweden in a tense final test. Here in Australia the tension is building in advance of our own Young Australian Truck Driver competition to be held in Melbourne in November. It may not be quite such a big [...]

The finalists are all lined up and ready to go in the Young European Truck Driver of the Year competition being held in Sweden by Scania. They claim they are the best truck drivers in the world but I reckon there might be a few Aussies and maybe even some Yanks who might want to [...]

The recent run by etruck across the Nullarbor from Perth to Melbourne was quite a trip. We would probably regard it as an adventure, but etruck met people out there for whom the run is a weekly reality. In many ways life out on the Eyre Highway is like trucking was ten or twenty years [...]

It’s quite a strange feeling heading out of Balladonia before dawn in a truck heading east. The long drive from Perth demonstrates you are really in the outback, the back of beyond. After a few minutes you come onto the ‘Ninety Mile Straight’, 146.6 km without the slight deviation from the straight and narrow. On [...]

On etruck’s continuing trek across Australia, the latest stop is at Iron Knob. This is a well known name on the Australian map and the source of occasional giggles in primary school geography lessons. The name comes from the giant hill in the background made from pure iron ore and quarried out for export to [...]

This is a quick snapshot of one of the great trucking journeys of the world, crossing the Nullarbor Plain from Perth in Western Australia across to the Eastern States. This shot was quickly grabbed as the sun was rising, as the truck travels East along the ‘Ninety Mile Straight’, 146 km of dead straight two-lane [...]

It’s great news that the Scania Young Australian Truck Driver is on again this year. Open to any truckie under 40 who wants to give it a go, the YATD 2010 will be a chance to show off trucking’s positive image to the wider world while rewarding those who take a professional attitude to truck [...]