Features
Features
FOcus on transport and Logistics
Our monthly features are designed to cover the core areas of interest within the commercial transport industry.
Tantalising (s)tough
Transport operations aren’t for sissies, especially in the construction industry where tougher conditions are added to the mix … This sector needs special types...
Trying to find a happy medium
The medium commercial vehicle (MCV) sector of the market has suffered a decline over the past few months. FOCUS asks some manufacturers what they...
Pick your part
Automechanika Johannesburg 2015 attracted the biggest and best from the automotive aftermarket supply arena. In fact, over 600 exhibitors packed the halls at the...
Calling all Trk’eneurs
Isuzu Trucks has come up with a new, fabulously different programme – called Trk’eneurs. CHARLEEN CLARKE found out all about it at Nampo …
Returning to its roots
The Hino brand has – and will – always been present at Nampo. That’s because, as CHARLEEN CLARKE discovers, farming and Hino go together...
Troubled times ahead
Grain SA’s Nampo Harvest Day must be the finest exhibition on the planet … but the farming sector is facing some challenges, as CHARLEEN...
That inner drive
GAVIN MYERS puts the power down and (somewhat simplistically) explores what components make up a drivetrain, and how these have changed over the years...
Sex, drugs and truck hijackings …
Crime is, unfortunately, a part of everyday life … distressing headlines litter news channels both locally and abroad. The South African trucking industry is,...
Reaching new heights
After a year of planning, Truck Test 2015 hit the open road during April. It was the most thoroughly planned, scientifically accurate, utterly awesome...
Tracking the Test
The Truck Test spectacle does not just happen on its own – there is considerable behind-the-scenes work to be done … for that, the...
More than just a test!
According to Hino South Africa’s Gert Agenbag, senior manager for sales, and Leslie Long, senior manager for marketing and demand planning, companies would be...
Hot on the trail(er) of success
This might be the first Truck Test event for trailer manufacturing company GRW, but it has been an industry player for nearly two decades....
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