Animal food specialist Duynie has taken delivery of 12 Volvo FH 6x2 tractor units, all with three-way hydraulics for tipper, walking floor and tanker trailers.
Tippers
Telematics specialist Microlise has signed up as a corporate member of Transaid, making it the first such organisation to lend its support to the international transport development charity.
Telematics
138 new Euro-6 DAF XF460 FTG Space Cab tractor units are now on programmed delivery to contract hire, leasing and asset management specialist Axis Fleet Management.
Rigids
Fully 80% of unplanned downtime can be eliminated by proper preventive maintenance, according to unsurprising findings of a study by Volvo Trucks.
Telematics
Derbyshire-based catering butcher Price and Fretwell says it has seen improved driver behaviour across its fleet, since deploying what it describes as Masternaut’s next-generation telematics solution....
Telematics
Independent Glass is taking delivery of two new Euro 6 DAF XF 460 Space Cab tractor units on contract hire from Ryder – in its 25th year as a Ryder customer in Scotland.
Tractor Units
An advanced fuel regulation module – said to be the industry’s first fully integrated CNG (compressed natural gas) flow control and regulation system for medium- and heavy-duty vehicles – has been...
Alternative Fuels
TIP Trailer Services’ FleetCare maintenance scheme has now exceeded 20,000 third-party assets now registered for contract maintenance across Europe.
Workshop Management Systems
Nagel Langdons says it is extending the tyre replacement intervals on its four 14.6m LSTs (longer semi-trailers) by more than 80,000 km, after moving onto Michelin’s new X Multi T trailer tyres.
Tyres & Retreads
MAN TGX EfficientLine 2 long-haul trucks are now being equipped with Continental EcoPlus tyres, part of its Generation 3 truck tyre range, as standard fitment.
Tyres & Retreads
Reading Buses is today (19 May 2015) attempting to break the world land speed record for a gas-powered service bus, using the famous high-speed circuit at Millbrook
Alternative Fuels
LCRS (Logistics Carbon Reduction Scheme) members are cutting carbon emissions faster tham the rest of the logistics industry, but not without some challenges, according to the FTA Logistics Carbon...
Emissions