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Feb 15, 2014

TRUCKMAKERS NEWS WORLWIDE * France / Germany * India * USA

* France - Daimler launches king trucks

(Photo: The vehicles are powered by a 625 horsepower -466 kW- engine)
Molsheim,France -Construction Machinery M.E., by Stian Overdahl -February 12th, 2014: -- Mercedes-Benz Trucks has launched its two largest its heavy-duty trucks, the “king” class of vehicles, as part of continued roll-out of new vehicles to meet the European emission requirements. The company has launched its Actros SLT and Arocs SLT, capable of moving loads of up to 250 tonnes, including heavy plant used in the oil and gas industry or turbines for wind power... The vehicles are powered by a 625 horsepower (466 kW) engine... Production of the trucks began in December 2013 at the Mercedes-Benz plant in Molsheim, France, which serves as the base of Custom Tailored Trucks. The plant fulfills even the most unusual wishes of truck customers from all over the world... Every detail of the trucks’ design was extensively tested by experts, said Daimler. The trucks have a total towing weight of 250 tons, and the semi-trailers are often more than 50 meters long. In addition, these vehicles may generally only be driven at night...


* India - Tainted Tatra trucks rechristened BEML heavy duty trucks

(Photo: After the CBI probe, production of the Tatra trucks was stopped, as BEML was restricted to do business with Vectra Global) 
New Delhi,India- DNA, by Pradip R Sagar -February 12, 2014: -- Desperate to get rid of the 'taint' of Tatra scam, the ministry of defence is planning to rename the high mobility trucks to get back into business in the country... Tatra, the all-weather trucks are being used to carry Indian Army's strike-power, were surrounded by controversy... The CBI in April 2013 booked VRS Natarajan, chief of the Bharat Earth Movers Limited (BEML) — the defence Public Sector Unit which manufacture these trucks in India. The BEML was the Indian partner of Tatra with UK-based Vectra Group... Production of Tatra was 40% indigenous and the reamining 60% was dependent on import from Vectra...


 * USA - Lockheed's Robotic Trucks pass real-world military convoy test

Bethesda,MD,USA -IEEE Spectrum, by Evan Ackerman -12 Feb 2014: -- A few weeks ago, we posted about the U.S. Army's plan to replace thousands of soldiers with robots as a way to increase efficiency by reducing the ratio of support personnel to combat troops. By cutting the size of a brigade by a quarter and filling the gap with robots specialized in logistics, the Army hopes to become safer, more versatile, and cheaper all at the same time. To be clear, this isn't about replacing front line soldiers with armed robots: it's about, say, replacing humans who drive supply trucks with robotic supply trucks that drive themselves, and Lockheed Martin has successfully demonstrated a working system that can retrofit human-driven military vehicles for autonomous operation... The goal of the Army and Marine Corps’ Autonomous Mobility Appliqué System (AMAS) program is to take active military vehicles and "roboticize" them to the extent that they can operate fully autonomously in both urban and rural environments...

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