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    IVECO’S CHANGE OF HEART

    Jan 12, 2022 3 minutes

    Right now, Australia has three truck manufacturing plants. Soon, there will be two. Mid-way through 2022, the sprawling Dandenong (Vic) production facility, built in 1952 by International Harvester as a safeguard against reliance on overseas suppliers during Australia’s post-war construction boom, will build no more.

    In its long history, the factory has produced almost quarter of a million trucks, or more than three times the current number of trucks built by either Paccar Australia’s Bayswater (Vic) facility or Volvo Group Australia’s Wacol (Qld) plant.

    However, following a long and stellar performance during the halcyon

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