When I first moved to Sydney from Melbourne back in 1972, I lived north-side but worked in the city.
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Saluting the new Mack Anthem
God Save the King? Definitely not. Advance Australia Fair? Star Spangled Banner? The latter is probably most apt as the Anthem in question is by Mack – that well known American brand.
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UD Quon pulling power put to the test in trying conditions
When I mentioned on social media that I’d been behind the wheel of a UD Quon, the responses were overwhelmingly in the positive.
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Electric? Don’t knock it until you’ve tried it
Back in 2019 I test drove the then brand new Fuso eCanter. So new in fact that the info screen was in Japanese. This was the first full electric truck I’d driven and to say I was blown away was an understatement.
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Talking about a revolution: Test driving new game-changer from Mercedes-Benz
Over 100 years ago Karl Benz revolutionised the world when he invented the automobile. And the world laughed. But not for long. As soon as it was permissible to drive a vehicle without someone walking along in front of it with a red flag, transport was transformed. ‘Horsepower’ came to mean something else entirely.
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Diving in at the deep end
Full disclosure: In the 18 years I have been playing with and writing about trucks, I have never driven a Volvo.
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Cruising the suburbs in the new Scania Super 500G
It’s 6pm on a Friday afternoon and I’m sitting in the usual traffic jams that beset the Hume Highway as you come off the Western Ring Road.
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Volvo FM Electric put through its paces at Cunninghams Gap
The Volvo FM Electric was taken for a test run through Cunninghams Gap last week to see how it performed, loaded at 41.7 tonnes.
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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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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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