General Websites
| AmericanTrucks.com is the source for quality truck parts online. |
| Aussie Big Bangers I live in Logan City, midway between Brisbane and the Gold Coast in Australia. This site is about my Hobby , my Interests, and my Work - Trucks. |
| Browny Recording Australian Trucking History |
| Florida Earthmovers |
| Haines Haulage Haines House Haulage Co Ltd has been moving buildings across New Zealand for over 30 years. |
| Hei Logistics HEI Logistics are an international company who specialise in supplying high quality used trucks, trailers, heavy equipment and parts to new customers and existing customers all over the world. We are located in Gateshead, in the North East of England and also have an office in Trinidad, West Indies. |
| K & S Freighters The K&S Group is committed to being the leading alternative provider of transport and logistics solutions throughout Australia and New Zealand. |
| Keep Trucking A site dedicated to Greek trucks all over the world. |
| Millar's Transport - Heavy Haulage & Interstate Transport Millars Transport & Logistics have been specializing in interstate transport for the past 25 years, providing both General Transport and Heavy Haulage services.Being involved in both sides of the transport industry we can provide our customers with very versatile transport options with the ability to cover almost all freight requirements. |
| nor-truck.de This Website is dedicated to Trucks from NORWAY. Truck pictures, and model trucks. Includes pictures from the other Scandinavian countries too. |
| Old Car and Truck Pictures If you like old cars and trucks, then you've come to the right place. |
| OZ Pro Drivers ozprodrivers website offers people interested in the transport industry a medium to learn, share and communicate about topics focused, from the person behind the wheel to the tire fitter or the dispatcher in the office. ozprodrivers caters for transport industry people from all areas within the industry whether you drive a truck a bus, are a learner or a seasoned professional running local to intrastate to interstate. |
| Truck-UK.com |
| Worlwide Truck Nicely put together site featuring Trucks of the Month, as well as lots of other images of DAF, Renault, Iveco, Man, Volvo, Scania, etc, as well as sections about British and US trucks. Maintained by Andrew Breeden. |
| www.transportcafe.co.uk Truck Stops, Transport Cafes & Lorry Parks Serving Professional Drivers, Commercial Travellers. Heavy Goods, Long Distance PSV HGV Multi Drop. Good Truck Stops & Transport Cafs are for Everyone. |
| Xtreme New Zealand Truck Photos Monthly updated web site featuring photos of eXtreme trucks from New Zealand. |
Manufacturer's Websites
| Scania Scania-Vabis was a famous Swedish truck manufacturer. Its name came from the merger of Scania (Maskinfabriksaktiebolaget Scania), which started out by manufacturing bicycles, with Vabis (Vagnfabriks Aktiebolaget i Södertälje), in 1911. Until 1929 the company manufactured cars in Malmö, as well as trucks and buses. Over the succeeding years, the company, based in Södertälje, Sweden, developed an enviable reputation for the toughness, comfort and reliability of its commercial vehicles. |
| Volvo AB Volvo (or Aktiebolaget Volvo) is a world-leading Swedish manufacturer of commercial vehicles, trucks, buses and construction equipment, drive systems for marine and industrial applications, aerospace components and financial services. The automaker was founded August 10, 1926 in the city of Gothenburg, as a spin-off from roller ball bearing maker SKF (Svenska Kullagerfabriken AB). Volvo Cars, the automobile manufacturer, has been owned by the Ford Motor Company since 1999. |
| Kenworth Kenworth is a manufacturer of medium and heavy-duty Class 8 trucks based in Kirkland, Washington, a suburb of Seattle. It is a subsidiary of PACCAR. The brand claims to maintain an image of high quality, it has won five of six JD Power Awards in 2005 and three of four the most recent poll. Kenworth has manufacturing plants in Renton, Washington, Chillicothe, Ohio, Sainte-Thérèse, Quebec, and Mexicali. Founded in 1923 by Seattle businessmen Edgar Worthington and Harry Kent (son of Frederick Kent, a partner in the predecessor company, Gersix Motor Company), taking the first three letters of "Kent" and the first five of "Worthington", the company was born, capitalized with $60,000. The following year the company sold 80 trucks. In 1933 Kenworth became the first truck maker in the United States to switch from gasoline to diesel engines. They were one of the first to come out with a cab-over-engine, or COE, model in 1957. |
| DAF DAF Trucks NV is a Dutch truck manufacturing company and a division of PACCAR. Its headquarters and main plant are in Eindhoven, and its cabs and axle assemblies are produced at its Westerlo plant in Belgium. Some of the truck models sold with the DAF brand are designed and built in England. Originally started in 1928 as a small car garage by Hubert van Doorne. By 1949 the company had grown considerably, and started making trucks, with the first model being the DAF A30. Although it continued to design and sell cars, including unusual belt-driven vehicles, it sold this division off to Volvo in 1975, to concentrate on its successful line of trucks. In 1987 DAF merged with Leyland Trucks, and traded in the UK under the name Leyland DAF, but under DAF elsewhere. DAF NV went bankrupt in 1993, and reappeared as DAF Trucks after a management buy-out. In 1996 the company was acquired by PACCAR, who also absorbed Leyland Trucks in 1998. |
| Autocar The Autocar Company, called the Pittsburgh Motor Vehicle Company until 1899, is a specialist manufacturer of refuse trucks based in Hagerstown, Indiana. US. Started in 1899 in Ardmore, Pennsylvania as a manufacturer of automobiles, and from 1907, trucks. The last cars were produced in 1912, but the company continued as a truck maker until 1953 when they were taken over by the White Motor Company. White was then taken over in turn by Volvo Trucks in 1980, with the Autocar brand continuing as a division. In 2001, it was sold to Grand Vehicle Works Holdings, which continues to use the brand name for their line of trucks. |
| Chevrolet Chevrolet (also known as Chevy) is a brand produced by General Motors. It is the top selling GM marque, with "Chevrolet" or "Chevy" being at times synonymous with GM. Chevrolet offers vehicles ranging from subcompact cars to medium duty commercial trucks. |
| Zil ZIL (Zavod imeni Likhacheva) is a major Russian truck and heavy equipment manufacturer, which also produced armoured cars for most Soviet leaders, as well as buses, armored fighting vehicles, and aerosans. The company also produces luxury limousines in very small quantities primarily for the Russian government. The ZIL factory was founded in 1916 as Avtomobilnoe Moskovskoe Obshchestvo (AMO, Russian Автомобильное Московское Общество (АМО) — Moscow Automotive Enterprise). Original plans were to produce Fiat F-15 1.5 ton trucks under license. However, due to the October Revolution and the subsequent Russian Civil War it wasn’t until 1 November 1924 that the first vehicle was produced, the AMO-F-15. ZIL Trucks models include: AMO-F-15 (1924), AMO-3 (1931), ZIS-5, ZIS-6 (1934, copies of the U.S. Autocar 2 10-cwt truck), ZIS-22, ZIS-42 (poss. 1941), ZIS-128, ZIS-150 (1947), ZIS-151 (1948), ZIL-164 (1957), ZIL-157 (1958), ZIL-130 (1964), ZIL-131(1967), ZIL-133 (1975), ZIL-135 (1966), ZIL-5301 "Bychok" ("Bull") (1992), ZIL-6404 (1996), ZIL-6309 (1999), ZIL-6409 (1999), ZIL-433180 (2003), ZIL-432930 (2003), ZIL-4327 (2004), ZIL-4334 (2004). |
| DAC DAC Trucks are made by a Romanian company (Autocamioane Brasov), who also used to make the Roman trucks back in the latter 1970s. Cab designs have mainly followed the style of the old MAN or Saviem trucks. Mostly these days DAC trucks are powered by MAN, Caterpillar and International engines. |
| Caterpillar Caterpillar Inc. is a US-based corporation headquartered in Peoria, Illinois. Caterpillar (commonly referred to simply as CAT) is, according to their corporate website, "the world's largest manufacturer of construction and mining equipment, diesel and natural gas engines, and industrial gas turbines." Famous for their products featuring caterpillar tracks and a distinctive bright yellow paint scheme, Caterpillar produces a wide range of engineering vehicles, including bulldozers. Caterpillar lists some 400 products available for purchase through its dealer network, ranging from tracked tractors to hydraulic excavators, backhoe loaders, motor graders, off-highway trucks, wheel loaders, and agricultural tractors. They are used in construction, road-building, mining, forestry, energy, transportation and material-handling industries. |
| Citroen Citroën is a French motor vehicle manufacturer and was founded in 1919 by André Citroën It was the world's first mass-production car company outside the USA. Since 1976 it has been part of PSA Peugeot Citroën, and its headquarters is on Rue Fructidor, Paris. Citroen truck models over the years include P45 (1934–1953), P46, U23, and 350 to 850 also known as Belphegor. |
| Ashok Leyland The origin of Ashok Leyland can be traced to the urge for self-reliance, felt by independent India. Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, India's first Prime Minister persuaded Mr. Raghunandan Saran, an industrialist, to enter automotive manufacture. In 1948, Ashok Motors was set up in what was then Madras, for the assembly of Austin Cars. The Company's destiny and name changed soon with equity participation by British Leyland and Ashok Leyland commenced manufacture of commercial vehicles in 1955. Since then Ashok Leyland has been a major presence in India's commercial vehicle industry with a tradition of technological leadership, achieved through tie-ups with international technology leaders and through vigorous in-house R&D. Access to international technology enabled the Company to set a tradition to be first with technology. Be it full air brakes, power steering or rear engine busses, Ashok Leyland pioneered all these concepts. Responding to the operating conditions and practices in the country, the Company made its vehicles strong, over-engineering them with extra metallic muscles. "Designing durable products that make economic sense to the consumer, using appropriate technology", became the design philosophy of the Company, which in turn has moulded consumer attitudes and the brand personality. Ashok Leyland vehicles have built a reputation for reliability and ruggedness. The 5,00,000 vehicles we have put on the roads have considerably eased the additional pressure placed on road transportation in independent India. In the populous Indian metros, four out of the five State Transport Undertaking (STU) buses come from Ashok Leyland. Some of them like the double-decker and vestibule buses are unique models from Ashok Leyland, tailor-made for high-density routes. In 1987, the overseas holding by Land Rover Leyland International Holdings Limited (LRLIH) was taken over by a joint venture between the Hinduja Group, the Non-Resident Indian transnational group and IVECO. (Since July 2006, the Hinduja Group is 100% holder of LRLIH). The blueprint prepared for the future reflected the global ambitions of the company, captured in four words: Global Standards, Global Markets. This was at a time when liberalisation and globalisation were not yet in the air. Ashok Leyland embarked on a major product and process upgrade to match world-class standards of technology. |
| AMW Asia MotorWorks |
| TATA Motors Tata Motors Limited is India's largest automobile company, with consolidated revenues of Rs.70,938.85 crores (USD 14 billion) in 2008-09. It is the leader in commercial vehicles in each segment, and among the top three in passenger vehicles with winning products in the compact, midsize car and utility vehicle segments. The company is the world's fourth largest truck manufacturer, and the world's second largest bus manufacturer. |
| Ultimaster Utilimaster is a leading manufacturer of walk-in vans and commercial truck bodies. Utilimaster develops customized delivery solutions for a broad range of industries, including baking, linen, parcel delivery, snack food, uniform, and utility customers, mostly built on Ford chassis. |
| Eicher From their web site, Eicher state . . . Eicher Motors, was founded in 1982 to manufacture a range of reliable, fuel-efficient commercial vehicles of contemporary technology. The unit manufactures and markets commercial vehicles with Gross Vehicle Weight (GVW) ranging from 5-25 tons. Today, Eicher Motors is one of the leading manufactures of commercial vehicles in India with a 33% market share in the 7T-11T segment. The success and growth of this unit is a result of various customer-driven strategies. The manufacturing facility is situated in Central India – Pithampur, Madhya Pradesh. Eicher Motors has stepped into the Heavy Commercial Vehicle segment with its state-of-the-art HCV, the "Eicher 20.16", the first commercial vehicle designed and developed indigenously. |
Contributor's Websites
| James A. Sleight |
| Bill Clowes |
| Robert VanNatta On my VanNatta Logging and Forestry site you can find information including extensive text and a parallel photographic history of the VanNatta Family whose ancestors have been logging in Columbia County Oregon for more than a century spread over 5 generations. I have followed a multi-Disciplinary career since my graduation from Willamette University of Salem, Oregon more than a few years ago. For 34 years last past, I have been a practicing attorney in the firm of VanNatta and Petersen of St. Helens, Oregon which should not be confused with its namesake Mt. St. Helens which is under constant watch by the Cascades Volcano Observatory. I live near Apiary which is south of Rainier, Oregon. |
| John MacDonald |
| David Hecker I live in Logan City, Queensland. Australia - midway between Brisbane and the Gold Coast. This site is about my hobby, my Interests, and my work - TRUCKS! |
| Tony Brown With my father being both a bus and truck driver most of his working life, my uncle running a large quarry in the Adelaide hills and myself working for the South Australian agent for Perkins Diesel Engines over a twelve year period, it is probably only natural that I grew up with an interest in commercial vehicles. Although I have owned a camera since my mid teens, I never thought to record any of the trucks that I saw in everyday life. It wasn't until the early nineties and after I had seen a copy of the American Truck Historical Society [ATHS] magazine "Wheels of Time" with all its wonderful photos and stories relating to old trucks, that I regretted not taking photos of the trucks that were a part of my growing up. The fact that those nostalgic old photos aroused in me memories from the past of old Fodens, N series Macks, KB Internationals, ex-army Diamond Ts and many more familiar marques, prompted me to start recording the local trucking scene so that in years to come hopefully my photos may give someone the same pleasure. |
| Dave Gothard |
| Florida Earthmovers |
| Millar's Transport Millar's Transport & Logistics, Australia, have been specialising in interstate transport for the past 25 years, providing both General Transport and Heavy Haulage services. Involved in both sides of the transport industry they can provide their customers with very versatile transport options with the ability to cover almost all freight requirements. Specialising in Overdimensional movements they operate out of most Australian capital cities daily. |
| Haines Haulage Haines House Haulage Co Ltd has been moving buildings across New Zealand for over 30 years. |
| Kingsley Foreman |
| Rod Simmonds |
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