Author:focus-on-transport

Working in the little big company

Working in the little big company

GAVIN MYERS chats to four of Scania South Africa’s top leaders to find out how they drive – and are driven by – the company

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Tale of typewriters and a terrific bakkie!

Tale of typewriters and a terrific bakkie!

Did you know that Mercedes-Benz used to make a bakkie long, long ago? And that Mercedes (sans Benz) made a typewriter? CHARLEEN CLARKE travels to Chile to test drive the company’s latest pickup and encounters all sorts of surprises

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Driveline dilemma!

Driveline dilemma!

Solutrans was expected to be all about e-mobility, and, of course, this subject did feature prominently – But it wasn’t the sole star of the show. CHARLEEN CLARKE reports from Lyon

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Questions around the UK’s truck platoon trial

Questions around the UK’s truck platoon trial

In 2018, the United Kingdom (UK) is set to run a £8,1-million (R152-million) truck platooning test. While similar tests have run successfully in other parts of the world, the UK Institute of Road Transport Engineers (IRTE) has some concerns

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Shell distributor drivers shine

Shell distributor drivers shine

Shell Commercial Fuels South Africa announced the winners of its 2017 Trucker of the Year competition at an event held at the Riverside Sun hotel in Vanderbijlpark at the end of November.

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Altech Netstar and Mobileye drive road safety

Altech Netstar and Mobileye drive road safety

Altech Netstar and Mobileye, an Intel Company, have joined forces in South Africa to include the integration of Mobileye’s vision-based Advanced Driver Assist System (ADAS) into Altech’s digital product portfolio.

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Hino the CIT vehicle of choice

Hino the CIT vehicle of choice

SBV, a leading cash solutions and services company in South Africa, recently took delivery of its 300th cash-in-transit (CIT) vehicle based on a Hino chassis cab.

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Mercedes-Benz “reveals” new Sprinter (well, almost)

Mercedes-Benz “reveals” new Sprinter (well, almost)

FOCUS jetted off to Stuttgart this week, for the Sprinter Innovation Campus. During this event, the company gave us a sneak preview of its much-anticipated new Sprinter.

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Redefining “entry level”

Redefining “entry level”

Mercedes-Benz has the ambition to be the number one manufacturer in the South African bus market. To do so, it is boosting the structure of its bus business and strengthening its commuter-bus offerings with a new entry-level model. GAVIN MYERS attends the launch

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North West eager for new transport system

North West eager for new transport system

In February this year, the Rustenburg municipality began road construction in the CBD to prepare for the area’s new bus rapid transit system. WILLIAM GEORGE looks at the progress and the future plans for this service in the North West province

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