During considerable years as a motoring journalist I’ve had only a passing acquaintance with the trucking industry and harboured a major misconception that it was conservative in its ideas and slow to take on new transport trends. After all, a truck’s a truck. How wrong could I be. Recently I attended a reveal of the new Isuzu F Series trucks and had my misconceptions buried for good. Not only was the new range of trucks shown to be at the forefront of transport technology, it was presented to the media… Read more

From garbage and cement to refrigerated transport, Australia’s medium-duty truck market serves up a menu of applications, making it one of the automotive industry’s most competitive markets. The medium-duty market – two axle vehicles with a gross vehicle mass greater than 8000 kg and a GCM up to 39,000 kg – made up 21.5 per cent of total commercial vehicle sales last year, with the light and heavy truck markets representing just less than 31 per cent each and vans making up the remaining 17 per cent. With almost three… Read more