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UD Trucks combining the best of two worlds for customers

Since its foundation, UD Trucks has been a challenger, pushing the boundaries in product development and innovation. Together with its parent company, the Volvo Group, UD Trucks is now also innovative in its business model to provide the trucks...

Daimler Trucks North America partners with Zonar Telematics on remote programming offering

Daimler Trucks North America have partnered with telematics corporation Zonar to offer customers over-the-air engine programming. By offering unique applications and solutions, Zonar have developed a system whereby a variety of parameters such as speed limiter settings will be programmable...

Isuzu Drives Real Conversations through Movember in Support of Healthier Men

Isuzu is getting behind the Movember Foundation's drive for greater awareness of the crisis in men's health, particularly testicular and prostate cancer and suicide prevention. Isuzu has put the Foundation behind the wheel of three specially branded double cab bakkies...

Messe Frankfurt plans Hypermotion expo

Messe Frankfurt, organisers of Automechanika events around the world, has engaged global transport consultancy Frost & Sullivan to help it devise a new mobility trade fair – Hypermotion. The agreement was signed last month. The consultants have been brought in...

Serco Trailer the backbone for fire-fighter training vehicle

A Serco Protec Steel Frostliner trailer provides the backbone for a mobile fire-fighting training gallery now in use at SASOL’s headquarters in Johannesburg. Serco built the trailer for Dräger SA who fitted it out...

European Truck Platooning Challenge set to test technology

The Netherlands has initiated the European Truck Platooning Challenge, a world first cross border project involving smart, semi-autonomous trucks, set to begin on April 6th. Participating manufacturers include DAF Trucks, Iveco, Daimler Trucks, MAN Truck and Bus, Volvo Group, and...

Iceland Comes to Africa

The Isuzu D-MAX range has an exciting and very exclusive new limited-edition flagship, and it is a derivative which takes off-road prowess to new heights – both literally and figuratively! Set for local launch in May, the Isuzu D-MAX Arctic...

TruckX 2017 – A One-Stop shop for the Trucking sector

Demonstrations, débuts, displays, dynamic driving, double-digit discounts and more – South Africa’s premier trucking event has something for everyone in trucking and fleet management. TruckX and FleetX takes place on July 12 and 13 at the Kyalami Grand Prix Circuit. ...

Proposed autonomous highway to run from Canada to Mexico

The Central North Trade Corridor Association - in conjunction with podcast talk show host Marlo Anderson of “The Tech Ranch” – are devising a plan to create a highway for driverless vehicles. The route with encompass the 1885 mile (3033km)...

Sigfox technology to play key role in driving innovations across South Africa

Global Internet of Things (IoT) connectivity technology provider, Sigfox and its South African operator, SqwidNet, are set to digitally transform the country’s economy by driving national adoption in IoT technology. This follows three national companies, Discovery, Netstar and Fidelity ADT,...

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