Scania depicted on Malaysian stamps
TNT’s Asian Road Network, ARN, is celebrating its 5th anniversary. To highlight this, TNT and the Malaysian Post Office has issued a stamp depicting a Scania R-series truck in TNT livery.
TNT’s Asian Road Network, ARN, is celebrating its 5th anniversary. To highlight this, TNT and the Malaysian Post Office has issued a stamp depicting a Scania R-series truck in TNT livery.
“Gunfighter” is the name of the best custom truck in the Nordic countries. The winner of Nordic Trophy 2010, Mika Auvinen from Finland, based his awesome truck on a Scania R 620.
In August, visitors to the Power Truck Show in Alahärmä, Finland’s largest trucking event, saw Finnish driver Tino Hyökki winning the competition.
Do you remember your childhood toys? Perhaps that particular Scania model truck? Some see it as more than a toy. To them, it’s a collector’s item.
Can anyone manufacture Scania model trucks?
“Yes, but you have to be a partner or have a licence. The partners receive cad drawings of the model they want to manufacture. Licensed companies have to send us their prototypes for approval. We expect high-quality products from model manufacturers.”
It has been nearly three years since the European Union launched the concept of “green corridors”. Now it’s time to shift into a higher gear.
Scania has received several truck orders from the Finnish defense, with an initial order of 91 vehicles and an option for more. The customer has stipulated that these be subjected to a broad variety of tests to assess their capabilities.
Take a peek inside the cab of a Scania truck from the 1950s and you realise how much the driver experience has developed. Over the following pages Hanna Johansson, Scania’s head of vehicle ergonomics, takes us through the dashboard revolution, decade by decade.
Ľuboš Jakúbek won the Slovak national final of Scania’s Young European Truck Driver, and he is determined to repeat his performance at the European final in Södertälje in October.
At Interschutz 2010 in Leipzig 7-12 June, Scania is exhibiting six vehicles showing the wide array of solutions possible within Scania’s truck range.