Business / Corporate Dec 17, 2019
Toyota Motor Corp. said Tuesday its group plans to sell 10.77 million vehicles worldwide in 2020, slightly up from 10.72 million vehicles estimated for this year, nudging it closer to No. 1 automaker Volkswagen AG. The figure would mark an all-time high for the fourth ...
Business / Corporate Nov 19, 2019
Yamato Transport rolls out driver-friendly EVs for parcel delivery in Tokyo area
by Masumi Koizumi
Yamato Transport Co. unveiled on Tuesday what it says is a greener, compact, driver-friendly electric truck that may offer hope for coping with the acute labor shortage in Japan's door-to-door parcel delivery industry. The 2.85-ton truck measuring roughly 4.7 meters long, 1.8 meters wide and ...
Business Aug 30, 2019
Volvo unit's autonomous truck goes the distance in test as Hokkaido faces driver shortage
The Japanese unit of Sweden's AB Volvo demonstrated for journalists on Thursday a highly autonomous truck at a sugar factory in Hokkaido, where it moved for about 1.5 kilometers (1 mile) without the involvement of a human driver. UD Trucks Corp. said the test, which ...
Business / Corporate Jul 25, 2019
Mitsubishi Fuso to launch truck with automated driving tech in autumn
Mitsubishi Fuso Truck and Bus Corp. said Wednesday that it will launch a heavy-duty truck featuring so-called Level 2 automated driving technologies in autumn. The autonomous technologies to be introduced for the Super Great truck allow steering, accelerator and brakes to be controlled by the ...
Business / Corporate Jun 10, 2019
Isuzu seeks edge over Japanese competitors in Cambodia with new pickup truck model
Isuzu Motors Ltd. has launched a fuel-efficient model in its mainstay D-Max pickup truck series in Cambodia, as it aims to steal a march on competitors from its homeland. Shuichiro Mori, president of Tri Petch Isuzu Sales Cambodia Co., said Saturday as it unveiled the ...
National May 7, 2019
Deaths in Japan from truck accidents rose in 2017, the first increase in five years
The number of people who died in truck accidents in Japan totaled 298 in 2017, up 11 from the previous year for the first increase in five years, according to the transport ministry and the Institute for Traffic Accident Research and Data Analysis. Regarding casualties, ...
Business Mar 14, 2019
Volkswagen AG canceled plans to sell a share of its Traton SE division due to weak market conditions, dealing a setback to the automaker's plan to generate fresh funds for the heavy-truck unit's expansion outside Europe. "We regret that we have to refrain from a ...
Business / Corporate Feb 20, 2019
Ford to close oldest plant in Brazil, cut 2,700 jobs and exit South America truck biz
Ford Motor Co. said on Tuesday it will close its oldest factory in Brazil and exit its heavy commercial truck business in South America, a move that could cost more than 2,700 jobs as part of a restructuring meant to end losses around the ...
World Jan 8, 2019
Britain stages mass truck jam as practice for chaotic no-deal Brexit
Like a military operation, the project to test how traffic might flow around southeast England in the event of a no-deal Brexit started before dawn. And like many a military operation, it ran into trouble soon after making contact with reality. The Department for Transport ...
National / Crime & Legal Dec 5, 2018
Four men arrested for allegedly overturning truck in Shibuya during Halloween event
Four men in their 20s were arrested Wednesday for allegedly overturning a small truck during a Halloween event in late October in the busy Shibuya district of Tokyo, police said. No one was injured in the incident that happened in the early hours of Oct. ...
National / Crime & Legal Nov 29, 2018
End of the road: Fukuoka man arrested over drifting videos on Instagram
A 31-year-old man in Fukuoka Prefecture was referred to prosecutors on Thursday over the sharing of videos of himself drifting on Instagram. His elementary-school-age son and others recorded the footage, police said. Drifting involves sliding a car sideways through a turn. The man in the town ...