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Truck Driver Does Not Brake in Time on Icy Road
Truck Driver Does Not Brake in Time on Icy Road

11 Dec 2012, 12:26 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / It is simply mind-boggling how some drivers drive their vehicles on wet, snowy or icy roads, as if it were summer, and the tarmac was extra-grippy. This truck driver has no issues whatsoever driving...

 
Snowy Road and Out of Control Truck Cause Scary Near Miss
Snowy Road and Out of Control Truck Cause Scary Near Miss

11 Dec 2012, 12:10 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / There’s a very good reason why electronic stability control systems have become or are on the verge of becoming mandatory throughout the world. They really help out drivers in the most difficu...

 
Crane Takes on Bus - Crane Wins!
Crane Takes on Bus - Crane Wins!

7 Dec 2012, 14:50 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Driving a mobile crane around may seem just as hard or as easy as driving a regular truck, depending on where you stand on the difficulty of driving trucks in general, yet since it has ‘extra ...

 
Watch Trucks Smash into “11-Foot-8” Bridge to Rocky Music
Watch Trucks Smash into “11-Foot-8” Bridge to Rocky Music

6 Dec 2012, 14:17 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / A guy called Jürgen Henn had the bright idea to install multiple camera around a low bridge back in 2008. The result is a festivity of crashes involving truck drivers who ignore the warnings ar...

 
Car Gets Pinned Between Four 18-Wheelers in Russia!
Car Gets Pinned Between Four 18-Wheelers in Russia!

5 Dec 2012, 13:45 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / As far as worst case scenarios go, ending up on the verge of being pinned in-between two speeding 18-wheelers definitely ranks very highly. This video, recently shot in Russia, shows just what a sit...

 
Truck Driver Shows Excellent Reflexes - Avoids Imminent Crash
Truck Driver Shows Excellent Reflexes - Avoids Imminent Crash

5 Dec 2012, 12:07 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Whenever you cut off a speeding truck, the next thing you expect is for it to plough into the back of your car with tremendous force, due to the extreme inertia it carries around. This is not becaus...

 
Truck Causes Massive High Speed Crash on Wet Road
Truck Causes Massive High Speed Crash on Wet Road

4 Dec 2012, 12:22 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The worst thing about car crashes is that they cannot be predicted, or anticipated in any way, except when it is already too late to do anything in order to avoid or at least lessen the extent of th...

 
Crazy Truck Driver Drifts Tank Trailer - Achieves Extreme Angles!
Crazy Truck Driver Drifts Tank Trailer - Achieves Extreme Angles!

3 Dec 2012, 15:54 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Most light vehicles, and cars in particular are, to a certain extent fun to drive and offer up pretty much the same sort of excitement, which usually goes up proportionally, with the price of the ve...

 
Another Kind of Coca-Cola Truck: Christmas Cement Mixer
Another Kind of Coca-Cola Truck: Christmas Cement Mixer

1 Dec 2012, 10:30 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Christmas is coming and Coca-Cola will surely not miss the opportunity to show it red and white trucks, carrying Santa’s joy and good will across the neighborhood. The only problem is, we&rsqu...

 
Out of Control Truck Barely Misses Oncoming Car
Out of Control Truck Barely Misses Oncoming Car

30 Nov 2012, 13:57 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Iced up roads pose a real threat to all vehicles, especially those which are very heavy, and thus have a lot of inertia and are very difficult to stop. The out-of-control 18-wheeler in this video is...

 
Improper Highway Maneuver Causes Truck Crash in Russia
Improper Highway Maneuver Causes Truck Crash in Russia

30 Nov 2012, 13:10 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Highway driving requires different skills to driving on any other type of road, as distances and speeds are much greater. Drivers need to look much further ahead, while driving, as well as much furt...

 
Russian Driver Does Amazing Save on Slippery Road
Russian Driver Does Amazing Save on Slippery Road

29 Nov 2012, 14:25 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Not adapting one’s speed to cope with slippery roads is one of the leading causes of accidents, and you don`t need to see any statistics or reports to know that - you just need to observe how ...

 
Mercedes-Benz Previews New Range of ‘Arocs’ Trucks
Mercedes-Benz Previews New Range of ‘Arocs’ Trucks

28 Nov 2012, 16:56 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Mercedes-Benz is well known for making excellent trucks, and now, following the revamp of their Actros and Antos ranges of trucks, they will introduce a new range of trucks, called Arocs. These vehi...

 
Volvo Trucks Sees Apocalypse: Sales Down by 99.7%
Volvo Trucks Sees Apocalypse: Sales Down by 99.7%

21 Nov 2012, 14:06 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / It's well known the fact that the global recession massively affected car manufacturers from all over the world but Volvo Trucks yesterday came out with shocking figures. In the last three mont...

 
700 hp Volvo FH16, the World's Most Powerful Truck
700 hp Volvo FH16, the World's Most Powerful Truck

21 Nov 2012, 14:06 UTC · By: Tudor Raiciu / Despite appalling sales figures towards the end of the year, with an apocalyptic drop of 99.7% in Europe, Volvo Trucks keep paddling for their survival and they are doing it in Swarovski-studded raf...

 
Ford: F-150 - The Best in Its Class
Ford: F-150 - The Best in Its Class

21 Nov 2012, 14:06 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / Even if it's clear that the new F-150 is one of the main models in the next Ford lineup, the American company continues to praise the pickup truck pointing that it “delivers class-leading...

 
UPS Buys Hydraulic Hybrid Trucks
UPS Buys Hydraulic Hybrid Trucks

21 Nov 2012, 14:06 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / US delivery company UPS announced that it recently purchased hydraulic hybrid trucks, a new type of vehicles which are said to provide fuel economy of up to 50 percent when compared to standard dies...

 
MAN Buys VW Brazil's Heavy Truck Division
MAN Buys VW Brazil's Heavy Truck Division

21 Nov 2012, 14:06 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / German manufacturer Volkswagen has just announced that it will sells its truck business in Brazil to MAN AG, with the transaction due to be completed in the first quarter of 2009. MAN will pay no le...

 
Mercedes Trucks Expects Good Sales Next Year
Mercedes Trucks Expects Good Sales Next Year

21 Nov 2012, 14:06 UTC · By: Alex Tudorache / Mercedes expects a good year to come for its trucks. Mercedes achieved an all-time high last year when it sold 105,000 trucks over 6 tons. The company, renowned for the reliability of its machines ...

 
Even More Production Cuts Prepared by Ford
Even More Production Cuts Prepared by Ford

21 Nov 2012, 14:06 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / A new production cut may be announced by Ford in the near future, analyst George Pipas told Autonews, this time concerning the North American production of crossovers. Ford already confirmed several...