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14 Super Imposed

Scania has clearly stated that its new double overhead cam diesel engines will be the last internal combustion truck power plants it and its parent company Traton will develop before we rush headlong into the brave new world of zero emission. We had the chance to drive both the ‘supermarket spec’ 460P and the line haul tuned 560 R versions of the Swedish maker’s new machines and we reckon they will sell as many as they can bring in.

20 Cascading Numbers

The truck business is all about the numbers. Tonnage, length, number of pallets, horsepower and torque ratings, size of the sleeper, bumper to back of cab dimensions, diff ratios, the numbers go on and on. All of those numbers are nothing new, but they gained added relevance recently when we had the chance to do a road test in a Freightliner Cascadia 126 configured for 34 pallets using a B double set up. See what we mean? Numbers, numbers everywhere but what do they all mean?

26 Von Wallfeld Express

ANDREAS Von Wallfeld is clearly a major player in Daimler’s global truck operations and recently jetted down under to Australia to visit one of the Daimler Truck empire’s most far flung, but important outposts and T&TA had the chance to sit down for a chat with the man in charge of the company’s export markets to get a handle on where where thing are headed at the world’s biggest truck maker

32 Kiwi Magic

Some superior feeling Aussies may consider us to be ahead of our Kiwi cousins from across the ‘Dutch’. We are after all, the big brother with five times the population and supposedly five times the sophistication. However there are many times when the All Black worshipping clan from the Shaky Isles make us look like a bunch of backward hicks from out of the West, as we found out when we travelled to Auckland to see a ground breaking hydrogen fuel cell truck trial.

38 HOLDING S-WAY

Iveco has launched its latest heavy duty flagship, the S-Way with a brief drive for Australian transport media at the Anglesea proving ground near Geelong. The S-Way is the truck Iveco hopes will rescue its fortunes in the Australian heavy duty truck market. We went along for a steer and to see if the new truck might be Iveco’s heavy duty saviour or a false start to the brand’s heavy duty revival in Australia.

44 MAN UP!

It is fair to say that the brand that causes the board of Traton the most headaches at the moment is its German subsidiary MAN. If you pour over the company results from Traton each year it is easy to see that MAN underperforms its Swedish sibling Scania, and even against the likes of Traton’s new US child, Navistar. But having driven the latest flagship MAN TGX we reckon this truck could cure some of those headaches.

50 ROGER THAT!

It has been a rough few years on Australian roads, between the pandemic, fires, floods and other natural disasters. On the east coast, Queensland and New South Wales were hit particularly hard in 2022 with severe flooding and it impacted many families and many family-run businesses. One such business was Rogers Transport, currently based in the Brisbane suburb of Rocklea. We take a look at the family owned operation and how they have been navigating the road to recovery.