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22/03/2010
More than 50 hybrid electric drive systems, designed to power double-decker buses in Oxford and Manchester, have been delivered to Alexander Dennis (ADL) by BAE Systems.
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19/03/2010
Les Hughes & Son now boasts a new 6x4 Renault Lander rigid drawbar combination on its fleet, after receiving the machine from Renualt Trucks Midlands.
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18/03/2010
Mobile phone footage, captured by a motorist and loaded onto You Tube, shows an Arclid tanker pushing a Renault Clio at high speed along a trunk road.
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18/03/2010
With general election fervour heating-up across the country, IRTE wants to open a debate with its members about what engineering professionals want from their political leaders.
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18/03/2010
Fairfax Meadow, the catering trade butcher organisation, has replaced its first Iveco Daily AGiles with 15 new Daily models, with the six-speed automatic AGile transmission.
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18/03/2010
Scania reckons it is driving change in the UK truck maintenance industry since going public on its "competitively priced" Fixed Price Repairs programme.
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17/03/2010
Manchester based GITI Tire has achieved registration to ISO 9001:2008 for its supply of truck and bus tyres to the UK market.
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17/03/2010
Vehicle distribution company QVD Fleet Services has invested in a car transporter capable of carrying up to 11 of the German company's vehicles.
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16/03/2010
VOSA's fees for statutory and voluntary testing of HGVs and PSVs are to be updated from 1 April, following the consultation launched last August.
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16/03/2010
The Road Safety Foundation has given just two stars out of a possible four to more than two-thirds of the Highways Agency's road network.
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16/03/2010
A new grille and headlights, increased cab packages, anti-slip windscreen cleaning steps and interior trim enhancements are the obvious changes to the new Volvo FM, which is still aimed at the regional distribution market.
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15/03/2010
Steve Smith of Charles Clark Toyota in Wolverhampton, John Tinham of John Tinham Motor Engineer in Chelmsford and Stuart White of Complete Car Maintenance in Surrey have triumphed over nine others in the finals of Top Technician 2010.
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15/03/2010
Home delivery outfit Hermes says it has saved more than £300,000 from its annual transport costs, thanks in part to software used to plan optimal routing for vehicles.
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12/03/2010
To celebrate nine decades of making low carbon commercial vehicles, Smith Electric Vehicles has taken one of the largest stands at the Commercial Vehicle Operator Show (13-15 April), to make space for it range of electric vans and ...
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12/03/2010
The 400th MAN Lion's City DD 'double-decker bus was handed over to Berlin's public transport company, Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe, at MAN Nutzfahrzeuge Gruppe's Bus Forum.
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11/03/2010
Volvo Truck and Bus Centre London, Milton Keynes Dealerpoint has been appointed the designated bodyshop for truck, bus and trailer repairs in Volvo's London region, the busiest area in the country.
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11/03/2010
Hoping to revolutionise UK public transport, an advanced real-time electronic fixed-route system has been launched by Mobexx.
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11/03/2010
Construction group Balfour Beatty has gone for new Mercedes-Benz Sprinter tippers for road and pavement maintenance work on its Westminster City Council contract.
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10/03/2010
On page 40 of the March issue of Transport Engineer, Scott Dargan, operations director at Carrier Transicold, was quoted as saying that one of the company's employees was injured after falling from a cab roof. It was, in fact, someone from ...
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10/03/2010
TomTom's commercial vehicle fleets arm, TomTom Work, has launched two low-cost and practical devices to help operators with time management and logging.
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10/03/2010
Local bus operator Cotswold Green, in Gloucestershire, has put its first MAN/Plaxton Centro combination into service.
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09/03/2010
Nottinghamshire County Council says it is seeing the fruits of investment in new equipment to monitor its vehicles, fleet and personnel around the clock, courtesy of Masternaut Three X.
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09/03/2010
Criminal gangs importing GPS jammers from China to help them steal transporters with valuable loads will soon be in for nasty surprise, according to tracking and recovery systems specialist Tracker.
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08/03/2010
The arrival of another Optare Solo SE makes it three for Somerset independent Hatch Green Coaches of Hatch Beauchamp near Taunton, which has seen its fleet more than treble in two years, from eight vehicles to 27.
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08/03/2010
Transportation of the UK's Olympic cycling hopefuls for the London 2012 games has been given a helping hand from Mercedes-Benz.
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