* Germany - MAN celebrates 60 years at its Munich plant
-- MAN is celebrating the 60th anniversary of the opening of its Munich plant by holding a big family open day for its employees and their families on Saturday 25 July 2015. Approximately 30,000 guests are expected to attend... The anniversary is also being marked with a parade of historic trucks for truckers and vintage vehicle enthusiasts. From 8:00 on Saturday, the sound of vintage engines will fill the air as the parade of ten trucks makes its way from the MAN plant in Dachauer Straße, along Gabelsbergerstraße and the Altstadtring to the Isartorplatz, where the parade is due to arrive around 9:00... The vintage vehicles are testament to the years of the economic miracle in Germany and the early days of long-haul transportation... Production of MAN trucks and buses dates back 100 years, but for the first few decades the vehicles were only produced in Nuremberg. In the first half of the 1950s, production and sales of the Nuremberg trucks continually increased until the plant reached capacity. The company management began looking for an alternative production site and ultimately decided on the site of the former BMW aircraft engine plant in Allach, Munich. MAN's senior management, including Otto Meyer, saw the new plant in Munich as a fantastic opportunity to expand the company's commercial vehicle production and set up improved and more independent development facilities for this area...
(Photo: In 1955, the first truck rolled off the assembly line at MAN's Munich plant. Sixty years on, MAN is marking the anniversary with a big family open day and vintage truck parade) -- Munich, Germany - Newswire Today - 24 July 2015
* Baden-Wuerttemberg - Daimler plans to test self driving trucks in Germany this year
-- German carmaker Daimler is planning to test self-driving trucks as early as this year, executive board member Wolfgang Bernhard told a German newspaper... First tests of semi-autonomous trucks will take place in Daimler’s home state Baden-Wuerttemberg while the start of production is two-three years away, Bernhard, who is in charge of Daimler’s trucks business, told the paper... Apple, Google and other companies were trying to position themselves in the promising business of autonomous driving... Google earlier this month began testing its self-driving cars in Austin, Texas, expanding efforts to gather information on how the prototypes interact with traffic, road conditions and people... Technology groups as well as automotive manufacturers and suppliers have said the technology to build self-driving cars should be ready by 2020...
(Photo from Thinkstock - Truck on a road above a boat canal in Oldenburg) -- Stuttgart, Germany - Reuters/recode - July 25, 2015Labels: truckmakers news Europe
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