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We’ve all heard the expression, “everything he touches turns to gold,” but in the case of Scania, the idiom is actually true. From the birth of its legendary V8 engine in 1969 to the unparalleled success of the new R-Series in 2009, Scania is setting the pace for the heavy transport industry.

Pioneered by the timber industry in South Africa, performance based standards (PBS) measure how a truck and its load behave on the road against national safety and infrastructure protection standards, rather than on the implications of their dimensions and physical mass for performance. STUART MOIR takes a look at the system and evaluates its benefits for local commercial transport.

Effective fleet management is a vital component of the commercial transport industry and a major factor in overall logistics costs. FOCUS looks at some of the gadgets and systems available on the local market to help make the jobs of fleet managers that much easier – and far more successful.