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IVECO wishes its driver community Season Greetings with a special appearance in Vodafone’s Christmas TV commercial
An IVECO S-WAY is centre stage in this year’s Vodafone Christmas TV advert, to show the role of the connection in bringing people together, through the eyes of a truck driver crossing Italy on Christmas Eve. The TV advert which is on air across Italy’s major TV...
Gold medal for Man in EcoVadis sustainability ranking
The world’s largest provider of sustainability ratings has awarded MAN a gold medal for the first time.
STOP. LOOK. WAVE. VOLVO
More than 260,000 people under the age of 19 die in traffic accidents around the world every year, according to the World Health Organization. Too many of these accidents involve trucks and buses. In 2015, Volvo Trucks took a step towards trying to improve this...
Drivers desperately wanted
The shortage of truck and bus drivers is still strong in Europe. The latest survey by the IRU (World Road Transport Organisation) forecasts two million vacant posts in 2026 in the absence of incisive interventions. In the first nine months of 2022, the demand for...
Electric semitrailer tractor in the Alps: 40-tons eActros crosses the Arlberg Pass in Tyrol
As part of a series of tests the eActros 300 as a tractor unit, which recently premiered at the IAA Transportation 2022 in Hanover, successfully crossed the Arlberg Pass in Austria. For this test engineers from Mercedes-Benz Trucks fully loaded the semitrailer to 40...
Two Volvo trucks fall head over wheels for each other in new film
A beautiful love affair between two trucks: this is Volvo Trucks’ unusual approach to highlight the driveability and fuel efficiency of its bestseller, the Volvo FH.
Electrifying Europe and now crowned best bus: MAN Lion’s City E is “Bus of the Year”
The MAN Lion's City 12 E made an impressive appearance at the "Bus Euro Test" in Limerick, Ireland - and did so from the very first minute. After all, the all-electric city bus had completed the roughly 2,500-kilometer journey from Germany to Ireland on its own...
DAF XD awarded “International Truck of the Year 2023”
The New Generation DAF XD series was awarded "International Truck of the Year 2023" by a jury of 24 commercial vehicle editors and senior journalists, representing 24 major trucking magazines throughout Europe. Just last year, the New Generation DAF XF, XG and XG⁺...
DAF CF Electric truck on the Grossglockner High Alpine Road
A DAF CF Electric with a 26-tonne GCW has become the first fully electric truck to tame Austria's highest mountain pass, the 48-kilometre Grossglockner High Alpine Road with 36 hairpin bends and 12% inclines. The accomplishment proves that zero-emission driving is...
India’s trucks are works of art
Bedfords were first introduced to British India during World War II. This truck model and others similar to it stuck around, and since then they've been produced commercially throughout the country. But today, they’re not just functional and mundane — their...
Volvo: new safety system to protect cyclists and pedestrians
Volvo Trucks is introducing a new safety system to detect other road users entering the blind spot on both sides of the truck. To increase safety and ease stress on the driver, Volvo Trucks is offering its new system which uses a dual radar on each side of the truck...
IVECO S-WAY Supported Her Majesty the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee Pageant
The IVECO S-WAY tractors pulled some celebratory floats during the parade, a very important event in England that took place just recently. IVECO supplied three of its IVECO S-WAY tractor units, to pull three of the pageant’s floats, of which two vehicles were...