ZF will present a semi-trailer installed with its electric drive system, dubbed ‘TrailTrax’, for brake energy recuperation.

The new “ECOmode” is touted as an alternative to both continuous operation and “start-stop” modes, allowing for more efficient temperature management while reducing fuel consumption and therefore operating costs.

Schmitz customers who use ‘TrailerConnect’ to monitor their trailers can now access Goodyear’s ‘TPMS Connect’ software without needing to install any additional hardware.

In Truck & Bus Builder’s “Global Truck Report 2007”, published just before the financial crisis and “great recession” of 2008, we claimed that “across the developed markets, the demand for trucks can often be seen as a leading indicator to inflexions in the overall economic cycle.” Whether or not the truck industry can really be taken as a bellwether of the global economy, the truck wheel, a commodity that exhibits inelastic demand – no commercial vehicle can run without wheels – is undoubtedly a reliable indicator of market trends within the industry. “Usually, when we see shifts – positive or negative – on the truck side, they serve as an early indicator of what’s to come in the market,” said Giorgio Mariani, chief commercial officer at Maxion Wheels and vice president of global purchasing at parent company Iochpe-Maxion. “A good example is when, immediately post-COVID, it was the truck segment which began the industry recovery.”

Montracon’s managing director, Ray McSorley, emphasised that there will be no changes to the way the company operates following its acquisition by the Martin Group.

Hyva’s global cranes business is stated as having sales revenue of around EUR 100 million.

These will provide customers with on-road support, including on-the-spot maintenance, repairs, parts delivery, and retrofitting to complement its on-site workshop services across its European network of 1,400 partners.

Now in its fourth edition, the Road Transport Expo has grown exponentially since it began in 2022. I attended the inaugural show at the National Agricultural and Exhibition Centre in Stoneleigh, UK and missed the following two. Returning for the 2025 edition, the difference from the first show is night and day, with many more exhibitors and hundreds of trucks, vans, and trailers on display. For those reporting on the truck body and trailer industry in Britain, the expo has become indispensable: the companies featured in the report below represent just more than half of the truck body and trailer manufacturers who exhibited at the show.

This partnership further enhances Kögel’s existing Kögel Telematics platform, which has become standard on all new Kögel trailers since late 2021.

The combined company will operate as under the Aebi Schmidt name, headquartered in Burgdorf, Bern, Switzerland.

The Gradius business has been renamed as “Thermo King Belux” and will continue to serve customers in Belgium and Luxembourg.

The curtain-sided trailer offers a payload of up to 27.5 tons while starting at an unladen weight as low as 4.8 tonnes.