US trucks like the International Lone Star are rarities in Europe. Anyone who wants to work seriously with these vehicles must usually have to accept using a shorter trailer. This is also related to their generous driver’s cabs, which go well beyond our usual standards. If you can live with the economic consequences of that, …
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The new Mercedes Actros has been available since 2012. Nevertheless, it is worth casting an eye over the third generation. This is demonstrated by a test drive of the flagship 1860 LS with Megaspace driver’s cab. BHP and consumption in the upper range Under the bonnet of the Mercedes Actros 1860 LS, a 598 BHP …
Times are changing at Renault: the Renault T is replacing the old flagship Renault Magnum as the French company’s long-distance lorry and brings with it plenty of Swedish touches from Volvo. But the Swedish-French co-production is not as new as it seems: Renault Trucks has been a brand of the Volvo corporation for over ten …
Last year, the professional testers from lastauto omnibus carried out a test drive on the 2012 version of the Solaris Interurbino high-floor intercity bus. It is intended as competition for the Irisbus Crossway. According to the test drivers, the floor of the Solaris Interurbino is 860 millimetres above the road, which corresponds to the traditional …
The Iveco Strator ASN 440 S 45 is a rarity among artics in Europe. With its long bonnet, it is more reminiscent of a US truck. In 2011, the magazine FERNFAHRER invited a few professional drivers to test the Italian truck with the cheeky nose. 49-year-old Reiner Klumpp from Sindelfingen was very positive: “I always …
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At the beginning of 2011, professional drivers joined forces with the FERNFAHRER magazine to test the DAF XF 105 Safety Truck. The professionals were fairly enthusiastic about the Dutch long-distance lorry. Manuel Koch from Bad Salzungen had only switched from a Scania Topline 500 to an Actros 1841 with EPS gearbox and L cab a …
The electronic commercial vehicle toll system HU-GO was introduced in Hungary on 1 July. Several problems arose in the first few hours of its use. As the specialist Austrian publication “Industriemagazin” reports on its website, there were system failures between 1.00 a.m. and 3.00 a.m. and between 7.30 a.m. and 10.00 a.m. The Hungarian motorway …
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Europe is good for something after all: the European Union wants to help small and medium-sized enterprises with an EU grant. A special portal on the Internet provides information about EU grants that are awarded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), for example, or the European Social Fund (ESF). The aim of the …
On 1 October, France is introducing the so-called Ecotaxe. This ecological tax with the impressive-sounding name Taxe Nationale Poids Lourd, Ecotaxe for short, applies to every commercial vehicle registered in France or abroad with a permitted total weight above 3.5 tonnes. As the specialist Internet portal eurotransport.de reports, the tax amounts to between 0.025 …
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The market for used commercial vehicles is continuing to climb rapidly. According to the Federal Motor Transport Authority (Kraftfahrt-Bundesamts (KBA) ), 25,538 lorries were transferred to new owners last July. That was a year-on-year increase of 5.6 percent. The number of motor tractors that changed hands also increased: the statistics show 10,611 vehicles transferred, which …
