Self-driving vehicles compete in European Truck Platooning Challenge
Truck platooning can realize up to 10% fuel savings and reduce CO2 emissions.
Trucking providers such as DAF Trucks, Daimler Trucks, Iveco, MAN Truck & Bus, Scania and Volvo Group competed in the European Truck Platooning Challenge, where self-driving fleet drove in “trains” along the highway to conduct increased testing of freight shipments.
Dutch business is keen to go forward with truck platooning. As evidenced at today’s European Truck Platooning Challenge, in the period ahead Albert Heijn, Jumbo and Unilever want to conduct increased testing of freight shipments with trucks driving in “trains” along the highway. Today minister Schultz van Haegen (Infrastructure and the Environment) welcomed six columns of trucks at Maasvlakte II, which had driven from a number of European cities to Rotterdam over the past several days.