The anti-vibration and air spring specialist said the new brand name better captures all of its business channels including automotive, heavy-duty commercial and off-highway.

Fuso says it sells several thousand Canter per year in Saudi Arabia; it is most commonly for local distribution of fast-moving consumer goods and food.

West joins ADL from Scania where he was the Sales Director and brings with him 27 years of sales, business development, marketing and commercial operations experience in the bus and coach sector.

Volvo led the semi-heavy and heavy-duty truck class above 15 tons gvw/gcvw with 24,093 units registered, representing a market share of 24.6%.

Truck and tractor sales above 15t gvw and gcvw account for a sizeable percentage share of the market at more than 77% of the truck sector overall.

GM said the majority of the funding (USD 854 million) will go into their Michigan, New York and Ohio plants in order to boost the production of their sixth-generation small-block V-8 engines along with the related block, crank and head machining.  

Daimler Trucks has been involved in the Chinese joint venture for more than a decade; this is the first time a Mercedes-Benz-badged Actros will roll off a producion there.

Chassis are shipped from Suzhou in China for bodying by local body builder, Del Monte Motor Works Inc.

The Electra eCargo Fuel Cell Electric Vehicle (FCEV) travelled 208 miles (334 km) a day from the supermarket’s depot in Sherburn-on-Elmet to Newcastle and then back again.

December 2022 saw Volkswagen Caminhões e Ônibus Ltda (VWCO) of Resende, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil begin testing its largest electric truck model to date, the e-Delivery 17.

The project is employing PACCAR’s Peterbilt 579M trucks utilising Aurora’s latest version of its integrated hardware and autonomy software system, the Aurora Driver Beta 5.0, which is the cornerstone of the company’s autonomous trucking service, Aurora Horizon.

South Korea is one of the more progressive countries to try and adopt AI and autonomous driving technology om public transport.