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19/08/2013
SsangYong has announced a five-year free servicing offer on all LCVs registered during August and September – on top of its existing five-year limitless mileage warranty.
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16/08/2013
There are now less than four weeks to go until the deadline for completion of Driver CPC training for PCVs (passenger carrying vehicles). All drivers must have completed the required training by the deadline of 10 September.
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16/08/2013
CV contract hire company BRS has supplied 15 new Renault Premiums to ambient and temperature controlled haulage company Robsons of Spalding.
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16/08/2013
Vehicle tracking and telematics secialist Isotrak has announced new features aimed at improving road safety and driving standards.
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16/08/2013
Multi Distribution's latest fleet arrival is something a little different – a Vito Sport-X, powered by a 224bhp V6 engine and complete with a bright purple body wrap.
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16/08/2013
While the Chartered Institute of Logistics & Transport (CILT) is welcoming the government's funding for plans to promote cycling in cities and national parks, it insists that the same approach should be taken for bus and coach routes.
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15/08/2013
Renault Trucks has launch of its LCV Summer Sizzlers campaign, delivering low interest rates on all new-build Renault Master van and chassis cabs registered before 31 December 2013 and ordered by 30 September 2013.
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15/08/2013
Commercial vehicle fleets are choosing their tyres based on fuel efficiency and mileage performance, rather than tyre application.
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15/08/2013
An Allison transmission-equipped Mercedes-Benz Zetros 1833 water transporter has notched up more than a year of trouble-free running run in Esco's Bernburg salt mine, where a rock salt deposit yields about 600 tons of salt an hour.
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15/08/2013
ContiTech, has launched a new generation of air springs that pick up on the trend towards weight reduction on commercial vehicles.
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14/08/2013
Trevor Ratcliffe's new Volvo FH16-750, which made an impact at the Peterborough Truckfest, has gone on to take the Top Truck 2013 award at the re-established Mondello Truck Show.
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14/08/2013
Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles is offering customers a free brake fluid change, worth £40, s well as a 28-point vehicle health check when they replace their vehicle's brakes.
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14/08/2013
Growth in sales of Hunter's workshop wheel alignment equipment in the UK has netted UK distributor Pro-Align the firm's Platinum Partner award.
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14/08/2013
Glanbia Consumer Foods Ireland says it has won a new client as a result of the real-time information available to its sales team through Masternaut's telematics.
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13/08/2013
Turners, one of Britain's biggest privately-owned transport companies, has taken delivery of its 100th New Actros tractor unit.
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13/08/2013
Northern Commercials (Mirfield) and Stormont Truck & Van, both wholly owned subsidiaries of Clipper Group, are coming together.
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13/08/2013
Auchterarder coach company Docherty's Midland Coaches has taken delivery of a 10.2m StreetLite – the operator's seventh PSV from Wrightbus.
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12/08/2013
The FTA (Freight Transport Association) and RHA (Road Haulage Association) have welcomed the announcement that two more journey types – the training programmes for professional lorry and bus drivers – will be exempt from Driver CPC.
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12/08/2013
Truck manufacturer MAN has rewarded the best of its next generation of transport technicians at its annual apprentice awards, this year staged at Aston Villa Football Ground.
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12/08/2013
Drain maintenance specialist EEG has acquired 17 new 5-tonne Mercedes-Benz Sprinter 513 CDI chassis cabs.
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12/08/2013
The new Konectbus workshop complex at East Dereham in Norfolk has installed eight Stertil Koni wireless mobile column lifts.
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09/08/2013
Welsh haulage company Hicks Logistics has taken delivery of five new Scania Strealine G445 6x2 tractor units, from Keltruck.
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09/08/2013
Dragon Signs & Print has added a Citan van to its fleet of Mercedes-Benz light commercial vehicles, citing fuel efficiency, emissions, reliability and practicality as among reasons for the choice.
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09/08/2013
If you want to get your hands on Euro-6 trucks and hear from a leading operator about what Euro 6 is like in the real world, you might want to put Commercial Motor Live in your diary.
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09/08/2013
Volvo coach operator Reynolds Diplomat has stated operating its first B11R coaches, having added two, each with Jonckheere bodywork, to its fleet of 25 vehicles.
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