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| Bevan delivers sign of the times 7.5 tonners for Angel Springs |
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Water coolers firm Angel Springs is using bodybuilder Bevan Group's graphics production facility to keep its trucks' promotional messages up to date.
The operator has taken delivery of the first seven units of an order for 15 new Isuzu 7.5-tonners, all with automatic transmissions and fitted with Bevan's fast access curtainslider bodies.
However, in a first for Bevan, the trucks also boast two-metre square panels that are rear-mounted and interchangeable – used to publicise the latest marketing ... More
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MiX to launch vehicle incident pod for blue light
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New motoring safety product launched for
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Purdie & Sons moves in on Euro 5 Fuso Canter
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Trimble punches up telematics for all CV
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 Your Shout |
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The technology might be available to help operators meet exhaust emission targets, but who is going to pay for it?
Investigations taking exhaust temperature profiles of different vehicles run by various operators have verified that, in city duty cycles, most vehicles will not meet the required exhaust gas temperature to regenerate and self-clean carbon build-up. This is well known by major operators and TfL using pre- Euro 4 and 5-engined vehicles.
However, when they sell a bus, the vehicle ... More
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Tipper I-Shift cuts fuel consumption for R Collard’s Volvos |
| Demolition, disposal and recycling specialist R Collard's latest pair of Volvo eight-wheelers have been equipped with the I-Shift automated gearbox – and the firm says it is already seeing benefits.
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Sanders & Woods reports 20 tonnes payload on new DAF tipper |
| With its new DAF CF85 eight-wheeler tipping the scales at just under 12 tonnes, East Midlands operator Sanders & Woods Transport reckons it is achieving a payload of more than 20 tonnes.
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Court in the act |
| Mock trials at Derby University provided a clever backdrop to the thorny issues of wheel security, longer heavier vehicles and fuel-saving interventions. John Challen reports
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Minibus engineering |
| When Lancashire County Council's fleet manager engaged bodybuilder Mellor to design and build easy-access buses to Type Approval standards, it opened a can of worms. Brian Tinham reports
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Teardrop or pipe dream? |
| As operators and manufacturers look to tick as many green boxes as possible, John Kendall reports on the changing face of trailers and rigids
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Rubber revolution |
| Think tyres are tyres are tyres? Think again, as Steve Banner highlights developments that could have a significant impact on what boots your truck and van fleets should be sporting
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Under or over? |
| In recent years, workshops have increasingly favoured lifts over pits. But the fact is there remain pros and cons, and the safety arguments can cut both ways, says Brian Tinham
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Pollution solutions |
| The Low Carbon Vehicle Partnership (LowCVP) aims to help businesses reduce carbon footprint. Deputy director Jonathan Murray talks to John Challen about which technologies will play the biggest parts
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Emergency engineering |
| They're machines that deal with life and death situations. As a result, both the engineering and detail of fit for purpose construction are key to emergency vehicles. Keith Read reports
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What lies beneath the EC’s emissions edicts? |
| There is one key aspect of the EC's drive to reduce emissions from vans, but in particular trucks, that few in the corridors of power seem able to bring themselves to admit, much less discuss. It is that, in the legislators' disjointed haste to bear down on emissions of harmful NOx and
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People news for August 2010 |
| James Armstrong, currently aftersales director for Scania (GB), has been appointed managing director of Scania South East Asia. Based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Armstrong will take up his new role on 1 September 2010.
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