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TRATON’s Navistar buyout is a done deal

TRATON’s bid to become the world’s No. 1 truckmaker took a major step forward in early November, with confirmation of its bid to complete the total buyout of America’s Navistar International Corporation.
The deal, worth $US1.7billion, gives TRATON the foothold in the lucrative North American market that it has been pursuing.
It already held a 16.7% stake in Navistar and since March 2017 has worked in a strategic alliance with the US company, which builds International trucks.
The alliance, it says, “has delivered significant value to both companies through increased purchasing scale and the integration of new technologies.” 
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NZ Truck & Driver News - November 2020

Deane’s our Castrol Truck Driver Hero of the year

When we talk about our industry being full of good guys, Deane Rodgers is definitely one of them. 
It’d be hard to find someone more enthusiastic than he is about his job – driving for Cromwell-based Summerland Express Freight. As he puts it: “I’m up and excited every day to do what I do.” 
But it’s something far from everyday that has seen Deane voted our Castrol Truck Driver Hero of the year – namely, putting his own life at risk to avoid endangering people or property when his trailers caught fire.
It happened as Deane was driving north through a tinder-dry South Canterbury en route to Christchurch, in his Iveco Str...
NZ Truck & Driver News - October 2020

Greg Pert the new Road Transport Forum chair

Tauranga transport operator Greg Pert, who started out as a truck driver 38 years ago, has been appointed the new chair of the Road Transport Forum board of directors. 
Pert, who replaces Neil Reid, the board chair for the past six years, says it’s an honour to be chosen for the role and he’s “happy to accept this new challenge.”
When his peers voted for him to take the chair of the board, “I felt the time was right – and that it was the right thing to do. And I value that support.
“I don’t have all the answers and I still have a bit to learn, but I think that’s a good way to be.
“My plan is to respe...
NZ Truck & Driver News - October 2020

He REALLY likes our magazine

Six-year-old James Marshall may just be New Zealand Truck & Driver publisher Allied Publications’ most fervent reader.
After having a copy of NZ Truck & Driver handed on to him by his schoolteacher, the Ranfurly primary school pupil was so keen to get his hands on some more, he took action.
First he made a sign – ‘Truck magazine.’ That went onto the Marshall family’s letterbox – even though Mum (Arlene) gently suggested that wasn’t going to work.
When the rain ruined that, he got creative: He filled in the NZ Truck & Driver subscription form and sent it in – confidently ticking the Visa box….and improvis...
NZ Truck & Driver News - October 2020

Hino, Toyota team up on fuel cell trucks

Now there’s another major player in the hydrogen fuel cell electric truck market – with Toyota Motor North America and Hino USA announcing that they are jointly developing a heavy-duty FCET for the North American market.
The companies say they will use Hino’s bonneted XL Series chassis for North America, combined with Toyota’s proven fuel cell technology, to “deliver exceptional capability without harmful emissions.”
It’s a collaboration that builds on their JV to develop a 25-tonne medium-duty FCET for the Japanese market, announced in March this year.
The North American project will see a demo truck on the road in the first ha...
NZ Truck & Driver News - October 2020


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