Changing a Tyre on a 1929 Chevrolet Changing a tyre on a 1929 Chevrolet is part mechanical skill, part patience and part negotiation with nearly 100-year-old steel. Using an original Atlas rim tool, we look at how it was done — and why the process might cause a modern workplace safety department to have a…
Scania Dynamic R and S Series: 2% Less Energy, More Driver Comfort Scania has given its R- and S-series trucks a sizeable mid-life makeover, introducing the new Scania Dynamic package with improved aerodynamics, digital mirrors, a better bunk, upgraded lighting and a claimed reduction in total energy consumption of around two per cent. None of…
IVECO Master Technician Tournament 2026 Brings Australia and New Zealand Together Few things stir up Australians and New Zealanders quite like rugby, cricket, and the chance to prove the bloke on the other side of the Tasman is doing something wrong. So, when IVECO expanded its 2026 Master Technician Tournament to include technicians from New…
Ryco Cabin Filters: When and How to Replace Yours Ryco cabin filters tackle one of truck maintenance’s most easily forgotten jobs: filtering the air coming through the vents. While the engine enjoys fresh oil and regular filter changes, the driver can be left breathing through something that looks as though it was excavated from beneath…
Why LinCon is building an all-wheel-drive Scania fleet At 75 metres above the ground, the truck beneath you stops looking like a truck and starts looking like a rather important insurance policy. LinCon makes its living putting people where ladders, common sense and ordinary cherry pickers fear to venture. Getting them there increasingly falls to…
Could a Chinese ‘Temu Kenworth’ challenge PACCAR’s Australian Truck Icon? Kenworth, and parent company PACCAR, have spent more than half a century building an extraordinary position in Australia’s heavy-duty truck market. But as FAW, Foton and SITRAK improve their products and pricing, could a Chinese manufacturer eventually produce a more affordable alternative to an Australian-built…
IVECO S-Way AS 550s join City Timber’s Melbourne fleet after nearly 50 years with the brand Melbourne timber wholesaler City Timber has added two IVECO S-Way AS 550 prime movers to a fleet relationship stretching back almost half a century. Founded by Con Peluso in 1976 and now run by sons Tony and Joe, the…
Scania P 280 4×4 XT water carts bound for Pilbara mines Premium Plant Hire is adding four Scania P 280 4×4 XT rigids to its fleet, including three 11,000-litre water carts destined for hard-to-reach drill sites in the Pilbara. Mining is rather fond of enormous machinery. There are dump trucks the size of suburban houses,…
IVECO Eurocargo ML160E32/P Road Test: More Muscle for Medium-Duty Freight With 320hp, 1,100Nm, a new eight-speed ZF automatic, S-Way-inspired styling and a serious safety upgrade, IVECO’s latest Eurocargo arrives with far more than a fresh badge. Howard Shanks takes a 12-pallet sleeper-cab curtainsider into Melbourne’s south-eastern suburbs to find out whether this European middleweight offers…
The Biggest Buzz in the Southern Hemisphere How AIR CTI helps Warral Maldon move 7,000 hives for the Southern Hemisphere’s largest single movement of livestock Moving more than 70,000 frames of bees from overwintering sites across Victoria to more than 200 bee-drop sites spread across four separate almond orchards demands careful planning, a dedicated…