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    THE HIGH AND LOW OF HINO

    Oct 12, 2022 5 minutes
    Steve Brooks writes

    Seriously, you really have to wonder what arrogance and foolhardiness gets into the heads of some top executives. In this climateconscious age of intense bureaucratic and media scrutiny of emissions compliance, not to mention the instantaneous influence of social media, do they honestly believe they can fool all the people, all the time?

    From the outside looking in, it seems that’s exactly how some think, with the latest example coming from Hino Motors which is, of course, the truck offshoot of global giant, Toyota.

    For its part, Toyota claims to be shocked by Hino’s falsification of emissions and fuel data which is said to date back as far as 2003, just two years after Toyota took control of Hino in 2001. However, many of Hino’s presidents have come from Toyota

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