Trucks

Retail Asia12/04/2021

Pam Fletcher wants to change the way General Motors Co makes money. The veteran GM engineer’s Global Innovation team is looking for new enterprises to expand the automaker’s sources of revenue well beyond vehicle sales and is incubating ventures from commercial delivery services to vehicle insurance, to address future markets worth an estimated $1.3 trillion. […]

Retail Asia29/10/2020

Recently few reports emerged which said that Mercedes was scaling back from developing autonomous driving technology which was quickly buried by the company’s head of digital transformation. Now Alphabet-owned Waymo and Daimler have officially announced a partnership in which the German company will be teaming up with the pioneering self-driving company to sell autonomous trucks […]

Retail Asia05/07/2019

Sweden’s AB Volvo is joining forces with Nvidia to develop artificial intelligence used in self-driving trucks, in a boost for the U.S. chipmaker that was ditched by Tesla last year. The agreement announced on Tuesday by Nvidia and Volvo, the world’s second-biggest truckmaker after Daimler, is a long-term partnership spanning several years. Work will begin […]

Retail Asia21/01/2019

Sales of imported commercial vehicles plunged 38 percent last month from a year earlier amid slower economic growth, a local automobile association said Tuesday. The number of newly-registered imported commercial vehicles fell to 283 units in December from 390 a year ago, the Korea Automobile Importers and Distributors Association (KAIDA) said in a statement. “The […]

Retail Asia22/10/2018

A driverless car on Indian roads may still be a distant dream, but companies are actively looking at ways to use other autonomous vehicles like tractors, buses, trucks, and even choppers. German logistics giant DHL, for instance, feels driverless trucks can halve logistics costs and improve customer service. “In the last mile, on the line […]

Retail Asia28/05/2018

Deutsche Post DHLGroup (DPDHL), the world’s leading mail and logistics company, today announced the launch of DHL SmarTrucking to provide an innovative trucking solution across an extensive line-haul express road network in India. DHL SmarTrucking is the company’s first official move to accelerate the development of technology-enabled logistics solutions around the world, under the newly […]

Retail Asia23/01/2018

Daimler Trucks has increased its worldwide deliveries in the first 11 months of 2017 by 12 percent year on year to 422,500 units, despite the continuation of disparate market conditions. Until the end of November, more trucks were delivered than in the whole of last year. In full-year 2016, the Daimler truck division sold approximately 415,100 […]

Retail Asia24/05/2017

Indian automaker Tata is moving production in Thailand as part of a company reset that aims to increase its Thai sales 83% this fiscal year to roughly 3,000 units. With a 10-year contract up at the Thonburi Automotive Assembly Plant in the south of Bangkok, Tata has signed a renewable 5-year pact with the Bangchan […]

Retail Asia14/02/2017

Made-in-China trucks which had once dominated the Vietnamese market are facing the slow sales since early 2016. According to the General Department of Customs, import of made-in-China trucks into Vietnam reached a record high of 26,700 units in 2015 worth a total USD1 billion compared to 13,700 units worth USD530 million in 2014. However, since early […]

Retail Asia16/10/2016

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is urging Myanmar to make big investments in its infrastructure and significant policy changes to help it tap its full economic potential. The ADB recommendations were made in a recent Transport Sector Policy Note. Decades of underinvestment and isolation have ensured the Southeast Asian country’s roads, rails, ports and airports […]

Retail Asia14/10/2016

Daimler Trucks, the world’s leading truck manufacturer with a strong foothold in Asia, is enhancing its position in commercial vehicles in its core market Indonesia. The Daimler Trucks subsidiary FUSO (Mitsubishi Fuso Truck and Bus Corporation, MFTBC), Mitsubishi Corporation (MC), Mitsubishi Motors Corporation (MMC), and the Indonesian company PT Krama Yudha (KY) have signed a […]

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CEO Mary Barra Bets General Motors Can Grow Beyond Cars And Trucks

Waymo And Daimler Are Partnering For Self Driving Trucks

Nvidia Boosts Self-Driving AI Business With Volvo Trucks Deal

Imports of commercial vehicles fell last month in Korea

DHL looks to pilot driverless trucks

DHL leverages IoT to slash trucking time across India by up to 50%

Daimler Trucks on track to record sales of 465,000 units in 2017

Tata Aims to Build on Recent Truck Gains in Thailand

Made-in-China truck sales lose ground in Vietnam

Myanmar’s Trunk Roads in Poor Condition

Daimler Trucks to increase its sales activities in core market Indonesia