Raw dog and cat food specialist Nature’s Menu has taken delivery of a fleet of new vans from Burnley-based manufacturer CoolKit, bringing its total to 37 complete vans and 11 conversions in five...
Panel Vans
Lagan Cement Products says that installing vehicle tracking technology, from Ctrack, is already improving fleet productivity and the firm’s ability to analyse operational performance.
Telematics
Thompsons of Crews Hill has taken delivery of a second Volvo FM Tridem 8x4, having ordered the vehicle just two days after putting his first on the road earlier this year.
Tippers
Commercial butcher Fairfax Meadow has selected Fraikin again as its sole commercial vehicle supplier.
Finance & LeasingWrightbus has released initial test data from its new hybrid electric vehicle (HEV) system, which it expects to deliver significant fuel and C02 improvements as well as reduced lifecycle costs,...
Alternative Fuels
As part of its European sponsorship of the All Blacks, Iveco is challenging its online social media following to go offline and win a chance to share in the Iveco All Blacks experience.
Driver / People Management
TH White has resumed its national distributorship for the Palfinger range of hook and skip loaders, following what are describes as “recent improvements in product quality and capability”.
Municipal Vehicles
One of an order for 30 bespoke open top Volvo B5TL Euro 6 double deck buses with Wrightbus bodywork was handed over to Lothian Bus at last week’s Euro Bus Expo (1—3 November 2016).
Bus & Coach
Video-based driving performance analysis system provider SmartDrive Systems has released insights around collision data specifically in the passenger transit industry.
Driver / People Management
Dungannon, Northern Ireland-based bedroom furniture retailer Starplan has taken delivery of six Sprinter 314 CDI Long chassis cabs to work alongside its existing six Sprinters and two 7.5-tonne...
Panel Vans
From the IRTE’s irtec and Workshop Accreditation schemes to the effectiveness of green bus technologies and reinventing tractor specifications, the operations stream provoked thought. Brian Tinham...
Irtec
It’s not just about environmental preservation, but good old-fashioned efficiency and cost saving. Brian Tinham reports on Prof David Cebon’s sustainable freight findings
Driver CPC