Features
Features
FOcus on transport and Logistics
Our monthly features are designed to cover the core areas of interest within the commercial transport industry.
Cape Town: the first city in Africa to go electric on public transport
The City of Cape Town will be adding 11 electric buses into the MyCiTi bus rapid transit (BRT) service. WILLIAM GEORGE looks at the...
Death to the trucker’s American Dream
Despite the boom in the American economy and its transport industry, and healthy growth expected in 2018, progress may be held back, due to...
Renault Alaskan brings diamond spark
It’s an interesting and busy time in the pickup segment of the automotive industry, as a number of new players enter the market, writes...
Lighting up Africa
Africa is facing an energy crisis, as millions of people have no access to electricity, leading to expensive losses in productivity. Energy leaders gathered...
Powerstar Genuine Parts: wherever, whenever
With three major parts centres and a distribution network across southern Africa, Ever Star Industries ensures all its customers have original parts delivered when...
Digitise or die
Supply chains are becoming ever more dependent on technology to manage challenges and improve productivity, but this same technology can also present its own...
Dissecting rubber damage
Irregular tyre wear can be a tell-tale sign of underlying mechanical problems. WILLIAM GEORGE finds out about the root causes of tyre damage and...
Passion for production and people
It’s not every day that one walks into a production facility to find a company producing world-class vehicles and employees, too. However, this is...
With the rising sun
For 40 years, Isuzu has been producing light commercial vehicles (LCVs) in South Africa. With the announcement by General Motors (GM) that it would...
Mobile home overload
While not strictly of interest to the readers of FOCUS, Gavin Myers was able to visit the 2018 Caravan, Motor, Touristik (CMT) show in Stuttgart,...
The men, the motors, the legend
“I do believe in the horse. The automobile is no more than a transitory phenomenon”, is the quote (attributed to Emperor Wilhelm II of...
Sprinter makes its debut
The long-awaited Mercedes-Benz Sprinter has made its debut! CHARLEEN CLARKE travelled to Duisburg, Germany, for the world premiere of this highly anticipated new van....
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