If the truck and trailer combination weighs less, the possible payload and the economic efficiency of fleets increases. To make semi-trailer trucks lightweight, economical and efficient, SAF-Holland has reduced the weight of crucial components: The improved premium trailer axle, a drum-brake axle for 19.5” mega tyres, the convenient tyre pressure monitoring system and extra-light fifth wheels optimise the payload of articulated lorries.
Weight saving solution with JOST optima
When travelling across Europe, nearly all trailers on the road are equipped with telescopic landing gears from JOST.
Leading the energy transition
The ROAD collaborative project, which enabled CHEREAU to produce its first hydrogen-powered semi-trailer, was finally realised at the Solutrans exhibition in November 2019. This project highlighted numerous technologies that were leveraged to develop ‘From ROAD to REAL’ – an ambitious program to take ROAD’s tech to the next level.
Driving Progress: Solutrans Show Review
Manufacturers of heavy goods vehicles, light commercial vehicles, together with semi-trailer and box builders, tyre OEMs and a broad Read more
Re-thinking innovation
The trailer manufacturing industry is about to experience a fundamental shift in innovation dynamics as Read more
Taking charge
About eight years ago, the team at VALX thought about optimising the ‘power of motion’ by equipping a trailer axle with a generator Read more
Picking up speed
Australia’s Performance-Based Standards (PBS) scheme has come a long way in its 10-year life span. Read more
Facing the future
In the spring of 2015, US truck company Freightliner made headlines with the presentation of Read more
French evolution
Eighteen months ago, French OEM Chereau – a brand with a long and proud tradition in the design and Read more
Change catalyst
According to José Viegas, former Secretary-General of the International Transport Forum (ITF), a Paris-based intergovernmental Read more