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Toyota in self-driving partnership with Aurora
Toyota Motor, Denso Corporation and US autonomous driving startup Aurora Innovation have agreed to establish a long-term partnership to develop…
PACCAR and Aurora form strategic partnership to develop autonomous trucks
PACCAR and Aurora have signed a global, strategic agreement to develop, test and commercialize autonomous Peterbilt and Kenworth trucks. This…
DAF restarts three Europe plants
DAF factories in Eindhoven (Netherlands), Westerlo (Belgium) and Leyland (UK), have restarted operations. During the past four weeks the plants…
Leyland 10,000th DAF truck with ex-factory body
Leyland Trucks has produced its 10,000th ex-factory Paccar body built on a dedicated production line at its UK plant. The Paccar body programme is…
Paccar appoints new president and chief financial officer
Paccar has appointed Harrie Schippers as president and chief financial officer, effective 1 January next year. Schippers has worked at…
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Paccar unveils 12-speed automated transmission
Paccar is introducing its new Automated Transmission for on-highway commercial vehicles. The transmission is designed to complement the performance of Paccar MX…
NVIDIA working with PACCAR on autonomous trucks
Electronics specialist NVIDIA is working with freight truck maker PACCAR on developing solutions for autonomous commercial vehicles. The collaboration was shared…
EU heavy truck market sees 19.4% gain in 2015; positive expectations for 2016.
Recent data from ACEA confirm that 2015 was a year of positive growth for the EU27 heavy (16t and over)…
US Class 8 truck orders crash in January
After a month-on-month improvement in December, US market orders of Class 8 heavy trucks plunged by 35% in January, and…
Orders fade and layoffs commence in NA Class 8 truck sector
Volvo Trucks North America's decision to cut the workforce at its Virginia truck plant by around 25% in February 2016,…