DAF Trucks NXP Semiconductors, TNO and Ricardo successfully demonstrated the power of platooning and self-driving autonomous truck technologies yesterday (5 April 2016).
Driver Assistance Systems
Two Iveco Stralis Hi-Way tractor units are among trucks from five other European truck manufacturers participating in the European Truck Platooning Challenge.
Tractor Units
Quarrying, civil engineering and construction group Leiths has taken delivery of five Actros 2442 StreamSpace tractor units, all deliberately specified to maximise payload, fuel efficiency and safety....
Tankers
HRH the Princess Royal is to deliver the keynote address at Microlise’s Transport Conference (18 May 2016, Ricoh Arena, Coventry) in her capacity as patron of the transport charity Transaid.
Telematics
Fleet services firm Fraikin has opened an MOT centre in partnership with Harrow Council aimed at generating revenue for the local authority but also providing residents and businesses with local...
VOSA Testing
Huddersfield-based general haulage specialist Tom Moorhouse and Son has added 12 DAF CF85-460 6x2 SpaceCab tractor units to its fleet as replacements for ageing DAF XFs – all supplied by Ryder as part...
Finance & Leasing
Fuel oil delivery specialist Campfreight is reporting fuel savings and safety improvements since specifying Continental tyres for drive and trailer axles.
Tyres & Retreads
Volvo is promising to demonstrate exactly what a Volvo FH16-750 equipped with the new I-Shift crawler gears can pull, by attempting to move off from a standing start pulling a 300-metre long container...
Gearboxes
The IRTE’s irtec technician licensing scheme is on a roll. Brian Tinham talks to some of its greatest advocates to find out what’s in it for them
Irtec
Specifying tractors should be a science, not an art – starting with a frank analysis of the application. Brian Tinham reviews considerations in light of recent truck developments
Telematics
Given the transport industry’s problems with telematics projects that fail to live up to longer term expectations, Brian Tinham establishes some critical keys for success
Driver CPCStagecoach Group director and Transport Systems Catapult chair Will Whitehorn has been named as the next President of CILT (Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport). He will take up the...
People