Six unusually high box-bodied Mercedes-Benz Sprinter vans are now working out of Starplan Bedrooms' depots in Warrington and Wednesbury, West Midlands, delivering beds and bedroom furniture.
Light Commercial Vehicles
Western Commercial, the Mercedes-Benz truck and van dealer for Scotland's central belt, has been awarded a major extension.
DealershipsRisk of fire. Water can enter the front passenger footwell, because of incompletely installed stop plugs at the cab under the windscreen wiper recess trim. If this fault exists, water can penetrate...
RecallsFamily-owned Fred Smith & Sons has treated itself to a 75th birthday present in the shape of two New Actros tractor units from Mercedes-Benz dealer Midlands Truck & Van.
Tractor Units
Ryder has won a four-year contract from the Ministry of Defence to supply 138 MAN trucks and tractor units, plus 47 trailers, to the Defence School of Transport (DST), based at Normandy Barracks,...
Rigids
Paul Ausden Clark, director of Leicester-based coach company Ausden Clark, has been fined £10,000 and ordered to pay costs of £17,800, following an investigation by VOSA that revealed falsified...
Road Safety
Renault Trucks' long distance, construction and distribution truck ranges are all to be replaced in the spring of 2013.
Rigids
Renault Trucks dealer Sparks Commercial Services has officially opened its newly built VOSA-approved Authorised Testing Facility (ATF) at the firm's Portsmouth site.
VOSA Testing
Based on fuel returns from a pair of DAF XF105 heavy trucks that went into service last year, Yorkshire operator Brian Yeardley Continental has now purchased another three.
Tractor Units
Nottingham City Transport says that initial feedback from its new MAN EcoCity aluminium bodied gas bus demonstrator has been extremely positive.
Alternative Fuels
DBIS (the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills) has pledged further support for the automotive industry, with the creation of a new UK Energy Storage R&D Centre at the University of Warwick...
Electric Vehicles
Five partnerships have won the 2012 Niche Vehicle R&D competition and will share up to £900,000 of grant funding.
Electric Vehicles