A new hall and a truck driving and heavy machinery school are on the drawing board for a resurgent National Road Transport Museum in Alice Springs.
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Celebrating luminaries and history makers in Alice Springs
The term ‘luminary’ used by Shell Rimula’s Nick Lubransky is an apt description of those men and women who were inducted into the Shell Rimula Wall of Fame this year.
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Bigger is better in the Actros GigaSpace
“I’ll go and stand at the back of the truck with my boot at the end of the trailer. All you do is use the arrow up and down on the wheel and when the green line on the mirror lines up with my foot, you go left to right and the other side will also be set.”
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Bruce McIver inducted as Industry Icon at Shell Rimula Wall of Fame ceremony
The Industry Icon for 2023 was awarded to Bruce McIver during the Shell Rimula Wall of Fame ceremony at the Festival of Transport in Alice Springs last weekend.
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Test driving an Iveco S-Way down the bumpy road to Geelong
A while back Big Rigs was invited to jump aboard the new Iveco S-Way range of trucks and take them for a spin around the AARC test facility at Anglesea, Victoria.
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On the road to Casino driving a Hino 300 Series 4×4
“Hey man, that is one of the coolest looking trucks I’ve ever seen!”
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Truck electrification: Why Hino isn’t jumping the gun
Battery Electric Vehicles (BEVs) will certainly play an important role in suburban delivery and, having driven a few, I can vouch for their quietness, acceleration and obviously their zero emissions.
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Blown away by the biggest truck show in the southern hemisphere
Big Rigs has been to countless truck shows over the years so it could be easy to become blasé about them – not that we do. But to say we were blown out of the water by the Casino event on August 5 is a masterclass of understatement.
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Doin’ the Dirty? Why not try Fuso’s new 510 Tipper
One of the stars on the Daimler stand at the Brisbane Truck Show was Fuso’s Shogun 510 S Tipper. With its black on white livery and ‘510HP’ emblazoned on its doors and visor – along with possibly the best-looking bull bar ever made – the truck attracted a lot of attention from those in the market for such a vehicle.
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Test driving the Scania R660 V8
When the phone buzzes and the email says it’s from Scania, my hand goes to open it up almost before my mind has finished reading the headline. Hopefully they want to put me into something, I think to myself.
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