Since the birth of road transport, trucking operators have strived to reduce fuel usage and increase payloads. Over the past decade, the industry’s push towards alloy wheels because they’re far lighter than steel wheels has seen many truck manufacturers make alloy rims a standard fitment on various models. For instance, almost half a tonne (476kg)…
Scania Expands Services 360 Support For years, Scania has led the way in showing the Australian transport industry that selling a truck is only half the job. The real challenge begins after the keys are handed over, because in the road transport industry, a truck only earns its keep when it is out on the…
IVECO Strengthens Fleet and Customer Support Teams There is an old saying in the transport game that trucks might carry the freight, but people carry the business, and right now IVECO Trucks Australia appears to be doubling down on exactly that philosophy as it prepares for one of its most significant product renewal phases in…
Will the Scania Longline Transform Australian Line-Haul Trucking? Scania’s Longline Could Be the Truck Australia Didn’t Know It Needed. Australia has some of the toughest, longest-distance freight operations on Earth, yet strangely, and somehow, we’ve also normalised the idea that drivers crossing this gigantic continent should live for days at a time inside a cabin…
Bendix Modernises the Digital Parts Counter There was a time when finding brake parts meant walking into the local parts shop, leaning on the counter and explaining your problem to a bloke who somehow knew every pad shape ever fitted to a Falcon ute since 1987. Today, that same job often involves three browser tabs,…
Protran Solutions To Showcase Sunswap Solar-Electric Refrigeration System At TruckShowX 2026 For years, the refrigerated transport industry has been fed the same story: if you want serious cooling performance, you need a diesel refrigeration unit hanging off the front of the trailer, rattling away through the night, burning fuel by the hour, disturbing nearby residents…
Iveco Daily 50C Dual Cab Review – When a Ute Isn’t Enough Anymore The Iveco Daily 50C Dual Cab sits in a space that’s been largely ignored by the mainstream ute market, and it doesn’t take long behind the wheel to understand why it exists. This isn’t a dual cab designed for lifestyle buyers or…
CoolTrans Sees Fuel Economy Gains with New Actros ProCabin There’s an old rule in trucking that says the faster you push a brick through the air, the more diesel you pour into the process. European truck manufacturers have spent decades trying to bend physics around that problem, but now Mercedes-Benz appears to have taken a…
Scania Longline Cab: The Big Cab is Back Note: The images featured in this article are concept visualisations created for editorial exploration by roadtrains.com.au and are not official releases from Scania. Could the return of the Longline cab spark a modern-day resurrection of legendary trucks like Aerocat? Because every now and then, the truck industry…
How ride height effects truck shockers Words and photography by Howard Shanks (diagrams supplied by Powerdown) As the title suggests, changing the ride height of your truck’s air suspension can have shocking results on the life of your shockers. Suspensions like many components on a heavy vehicle are precision pieces of equipment that play a…
