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Technical reference

Where the sector stands

Dated obligations and published statistics, each traced to the document it came from.

Rules that bind the vehicle

Emission classes and weight limits are not paperwork around the vehicle — they decide what may be built, what it may carry and where it may go.

What will move the load

Diesel is not being replaced by one thing. Battery, gas and the grid behind them each work under different constraints, and the constraint usually decides.

Volvo FM 460 LNG tractor unit exhibited at IAA Transportation 2022LNG and bio-LNG trucks: where they make senseThe two gas engine architectures and how they differ, what AFIR really requires for LNG, why the German toll change reset the business case, and the operations it still suits.Read

How the machine is put together

Axles, gearbox, engine, cab. What the specification sheet is actually describing, and which choices you live with for the vehicle’s whole life.

Four-axle 8x4 rigid truck chassis on display at IAA Transportation 2024Axle configurations explained: 4x2, 6x2, 6x4 and 8x4What 4x2, 6x2/4 and 8x4/4 actually mean, the EU axle and weight limits sitting behind them, and which configuration belongs on which job.Read

The money side

What a tractor unit costs to run, what to check before buying a used one, and who is actually building them.

Lorries parked overnight in the lorry park of a German motorway service areaWhat it costs to run a tractor unitFuel, driver, tolls, tyres and residual value: where the money actually goes on a European long-haul tractor, and which lines the specification sheet controls.Read

Buses and coaches

A city bus and a touring coach share a category and almost nothing else — different classes, different rules, different money.

MAN Lion's City articulated city bus in service in BergenBus Classes Under UN R107: Class I, II, III, A and BHow UN Regulation No. 107 divides M2 and M3 buses into Classes I, II, III, A and B, and what each class fixes about doors, gangways, standing capacity and mass.Read

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Model library

Technical data, variants and buying guidance — one page per model.

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