Following trials with Volvo Trucks and AEBI Schmidt, the Highways Agency has put innovative Volvo FE spreaders into service in Cornwall, Devon and Somerset – and expects a 50% reduction in salt usage....
Municipal Vehicles
Acceptance of an additional 2.05m on the length of a semi-trailer – although with no increase in gross weight – looks tantalisingly close for UK roads.
Longer Heavier Vehicles
Tipper body builder Thompsons was the company responsible for bodying two of the first of UK specification Volvo FMX construction tippers, for Volvo Trucks' demonstration fleet.
Tippers
A new GullyWhale Plus medium volume combination (MVC) tanker supplied to Tees Valley's Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council has been equipped with a modified axle load cell system.
Tankers
Double glazing firm Everest has signed a four-year solus deal with Renault, for 77 New Master vans, which are being delivered throughout this month.
Light Commercial Vehicles
MIRA and electric vehicles specialist Gevco are developing a white label electric vehicle that, they say, will compete with petrol and diesel-powered equivalents.
Car Derived Vans
One of the first tankers to feature Whale Tankers' iWeigh waste monitoring and receipt printing system has been delivered to Malta-based Falzon Group.
Municipal Vehicles
Long-time Volvo trucks operator Knowles Transport of March, Cambridgeshire has ordered 26 new Volvo FH-460s and reckons that adding Volvo's Dynafleet telematics is giving it hundreds of free miles.
Heavy Goods Vehicles
The first trucks to wear the new blue colours of Kent-based operator Alan Firmin are four Mercedes-Benz tractor units, all specified with high-ratio back axles.
Heavy Goods Vehicles
Devon-based Highfield Garage has added a clean green Euro 5 and EEV (enhanced environmentally-friendly vehicle) recovery truck to its six-strong fleet of Fuso Canter-based units.
Light Commercial Vehicles
Stagecoach has re-entered the tendered London bus market by buying back East London Bus Group, which has 10 depots and a fleet of 1,400 buses, for £60m.
Bus & Coach
Organic food delivery firm Abel & Cole has replaced 20 five year-old 3.5 tonne Iveco Daily panel vans with new Daily chassis cabs, equipped with custom-built refrigerated bodywork.
Light Commercial Vehicles