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Dec 5, 2015

TRUCKMAKERS NEWS * Australia

* Trucks’ builders survive
 (Photo: Kenworth’s Australian plant allowed the design and building of the giant C540 mine truck)
-- With a market that is tiny compared to overseas juggernauts such as the US and China, Australia hosts three truck manufacturing plants that are each providing specialist commercial vehicles to a wide range of applications... The profitability of these plants is clearly not totally dependant on mass production volume...


(Photo: Volvo and Mack have a healthy local content on the assembly of trucks for local sale)
-- The Volvo Group plant has production lines that build Volvo and Mack trucks, as well as pre-delivering UD trucks from Japan, which are imported fully built-up... 

 -- The PACCAR group builds Kenworth Trucks on 45 acres at Bayswater, about 35km due east of Melbourne, and the plant has been in production since 1971... The local specialist engineering team has enabled Kenworth to build the massive C540 mining truck (See photo above) for Australasian delivery on the existing production line...


(Photo: The perennial Acco from IVECO)
-- Iveco inherited the 63-year-old International plant in Dandenong, Victoria, back in 1992 and then dropped International from the product range... Now the plant is used for final preparation of the imported Eurocargo, Stralis and Daily but builds the perennial Acco from scratch... Interestingly, Acco competes in the same market as imported trucks built in their hundreds of thousands overseas and is still price and quality competitive... 
The brand models that these three truck plants produce for Australia totalled 7609 units in 2013, dropped 5% to 7229 units last year, and are heading towards 6901 for the full 2015 year...
 -- Bayswater, VIC, Australia - Big Rig, by David Meredith - 4th Dec 2015


* Victoria - New Actros for Eastern Plant Hire

-- After a nine month trial, Eastern Plant Hire (EPH) has purchased a Mercedes-Benz Actros for its Melbourne-based dirt moving business... According to Mercedes-Benz, the 2651 Actros is fitted with a Hercules Bisalloy body tipper and three-axle tipper trailer... The Actros reportedly has the 16-litre V8 turbo diesel engine that generates 510hp and 2400Nm of torque, as well as a 12-speed fully automated transmission, hypoid axles, airbag suspension and alloy wheels... EPH uses approximately 2,000 owner operators in Victoria and Queensland to transport the dirt, as well as a fleet of 30 trucks and trailers that it owns and operates... 
Melbourne, VIC, Australia - Prime Mover - 30th, November 2015

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