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Entries for John Deere's 'Road to the Horse' competition, a unique horsemanship event in the USA, close this Friday, so if you haven't lodged your entry, you'd better move fast!

Toyota Material Handling Australia (TMHA) has retained overall national forklift market leadership for the fifth consecutive year.

Hino has announced the appointment of Steve Lotter to the position of Chairman and CEO of Hino Motor Sales Australia, effective from February 1, 2014.

Renault Australia's Light Commercial Vehicle arm has enjoyed another year of success in 2013, with 2,299 vehicles delivered to Australian business customers.

Following their release to the local market in September, Victorian construction materials supply firm, EB Mawson & Sons, have today taken delivery of the first Bell E-Series Articulated Dump Truck (ADT) for Australia, supplied by importers, Hitachi Construction Machinery (Australia) Pty Ltd (HCA).

Suzuki has extended its support for Aussie farmers by offering bonuses of up to $1,500* on their KingQuad ATV range.

Australia's most popular farm bike in 2013*, the Suzuki Trojan, will kickstart 2014 at an unbelievably low ride away price.

Understanding that more and more primary producers are using new technology for precision agriculture - and gathering more data in the process - John Deere has introduced 'Wireless Data Transfer' (WDT) which enables the wireless transmission of data between the GreenStar_ 3 2630 display, MyJohnDeere.com, and the producer's own farm management information system.

The Australasian New Car Assessment Program (ANCAP) has awarded a five-star safety rating to the Isuzu D-MAX ute. This rating applies to all 4x4 D-MAX crew cab variants built from November 2013.

John Deere has announced details of a competition with a difference - and one that's a dream for any horse fan.

Citroen's Berlingo compact delivery van recently scored its third "Small Van of the Year" award in the UK.

Toyota Material Handling Australia has launched a smartphone service application to enable faster and easier logging of service requests. An android version will also be available for non i-Phone users.

Dakar veteran Gerard De Rooy is making final preparations ahead of the Iveco De Rooy Petronas Team's return to the Dakar rally in South America.

Hino Team Sugawara have been class winners at the past four Dakar rallies in their Hino 500 Series trucks. In 2014, the father and son team of Yoshimasa and Teruhito Sugawara are hoping to make that five from five with an all-new 500 Series contender.

The Australian Trucking Association (ATA) has advised that registrations are now open for the Trucking Australia 2014 conference.

Australia's most popular farm bike in 2013*, the Suzuki Trojan, is now available at an even lower rideaway price.

Iveco has received the "Europaeischen Transportpreis FC Nachhaltigkeit", a European transport award for sustainability, for its LNG (Liquified Natural Gas) fuelled Stralis.

At the 2013 Tokyo Motor Show, Hino presented a range of new vehicles, new technologies and updates to existing models. Of interest to the mining sector was the presentation of the 700 Series dumper.

Toyota's forklifts feature at workplaces and warehouses all over the country, but in January, a Toyota Materials Handling Equipment (TMHA) forklift will got to 'work' in an all-new way.

At this year's Argitechnica farm machinery industry show in Hanover, Germany, a leading panel of industry journalists presented Case IH with their "Machine of the Year 2014" award in the XXL Tractor category for their new Quadtrac series.

Hino is set to light up the stage at the 2013 Tokyo Motor Show with an electrifying display of new concepts for urban and industrial use, as well as competition-crushing racers.

The 32nd annual Historic Commercial Vehicle Club of Australia Inc. (HCVC) display day is set to take place at Victoria's Sandown Racecourse (Melway ref 80D8) this Sunday, November 24th.

The 32nd annual Historic Commercial Vehicle Club of Australia Inc. (HCVC) display day is set to take place at Victoria's Sandown Racecourse (Melway ref 80D8) this Sunday, November 24th.

Renault has added to their Master range of light commercial vans with a new rear wheel drive High Roof version that takes more than any Master front-wheel-drive van. The first rear-wheel drive Master van offered in Australia, the High Roof model features dual rear wheels, similar to the set-up of the cab/chassis models.