In January this year, new commercial vehicle registrations in the European Union further declined by 10.6 percent year on year to 126,110 units, continuing the downward year-on-year trend which prevailed throughout 2012, according to the ...
A new safety standard has been published for the use of lanyard and harness restraint systems on forklifts. On February 23, American National Standards Institute (ANSI) standard ANSI/ITSDF B56.1, clause 4.17 was revised. It now requires all ...
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A night in a Royal Penthouse Suite at Geneva’s Hotel President Wilson costs a staggering $65,000, which makes the $195,100 Range Rover Vogue SDV8 seem like positively good value. Each is as palatial – and large – as the ...
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Photo courtesy of Sydney Ports Corporation. Opinion – Greg Cameron Selling a 99-year lease to Port Botany Container Terminal for $2 billion is bad economics. The deal requires Australian taxpayers to pay $4 billion for upgrading ...
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General Motors (GM) has selected AT&T networks to offer 4G LTE services in its vehicles in the US and Canada. The vehicles to be offered with the services will be the company's cars, trucks and crossovers including the 2015 Chevrolet, ...
A timely switch back to plastic crates has helped Brisbane-based produce supplier Favco reduce spoilage in its shipments of citrus fruits after a brief flirtation with using cardboard boxes. Favco was established in July 1999 as a joint ...
Bridgestone's Chinese subsidiary Bridgestone Shenyang Tire will invest about $299.7m to build a new tyre manufacturing facility at the Shenyang Chemical Industry Park in China. The company's current Shenyang plant located in Shenyang City ...
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Altec Industries and Transport Canada have issued a recall for certain D2050A, LRV60E70, and TA40 Freightliner M2 106 truck models. The concern is the chassis hose bundle may have been incorrectly secured by Altec Industries during the ...
Daimler Trucks subsidiary Daimler India Commercial Vehicles (DICV) has launched BharatBenz medium-duty trucks at its Oragadam production facility in Chennai. The distribution models of the trucks, 914R/1214R deliver an output of 100kW, ...
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Swedish automobile manufacturer Volvo has unveiled its Dynamic Steering for trucks that reduces the effort applied to steer the vehicle with electric motor fitted to the steering gear. The electric motor that generates 25nm of torque is ...
Electoral candidates in western Sydney and Newcastle face some stark policy choices about transport infrastructure that will have profound economic and social implications well into next century. Unusual in federal politics, the opportunity ...
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Oil ministry spokesman Asim Jihad has said that a bomb attack caused an explosion in the 16-inch pipeline transporting fuel oil from Beiji [Bayji, Baiji] refinery (pictured) to Nineveh province on Saturday. He said the ministry expected ...
Osram and Arri develop the 9 kW daylight fixture An especially high quantity of light in compact spaces is the requirement of customers from the studio and stage lighting sector, because only when film sets are optimally illuminated and ...
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A new container design is set to change the economics of shipping palletised cargo, allowing cargo owners and consolidators to increase significantly the volume of cargo shipped at any one time. UK-based container design company Container ...
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It's not at all clear what kind of "commute" a pro road racer has, but nevertheless the BMC Racing Team this week has been outfitted with what are possibly the WorldTour's only official team commuter bikes, the BMC urbanchallenge with Gates ...
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