Taxis based on Nissan’s electric vehicles – the all-electric Leaf hatchback and e-NV200 Combi – notched up more than three million miles this month (January 2016) with taxi and private hire operators...
Car Derived Vans
Drivers Direct has added a further nine Renault trucks to its logistics division, launched just six months ago to cope with growing demand – bringing the fleet to more than 20 HGVs.
Driver / People Management
3PL supplier RCS Logistics has taken delivery of a Scania P250 DB 4x2 MNA day cabbed 18-tonner, supplied by local independent dealer TruckEast, to help match growth in its palletised freight...
Rigids
FTA (Freight Transport Association) chief executive David Wells was at Westminster yesterday (18 January 2016) pressing the case for encouraging professional HGV driver recruitment.
Driver / People Management
Panther Warehousing has taken delivery of 40-plus HGVs – a mix of 26 7.5 tonners, four 18 tonners and 10 tractor units – all MAN – as well as 75 SDC trailers.
Rigids
Iveco has triumphed again in the Dakar Rally, with Dutch driver Gerard De Rooy, leader of Team Petronas De Rooy Iveco, winning the world’s most challenging motorsport endurance rally in his Iveco...
Rigids
Cartwright has entered the truck conversions market, launching Cartwright Conversions, with a new management team.
Rigids
Powered access specialist AFI Uplift has expanded its in-house transport fleet with five more Sterling beavertail trucks – with two MAN and two DAF 26-tonners already on the road – all with AFI’s new...
Rigids
North Wales based tour operator Goodsir Coaches has taken delivery of a new integral Volvo Bus B11R 9700 Euro 6 coach – adding to its existing Volvo fleet.
Bus & Coach
More than half (53.5%) of all new buses and coaches registered in 2015 met the Euro 6 emissions standard – a threefold increase over 2014 – according to data released yesterday (13 January 2016) by...
Bus & Coach
Eddie Stobart has placed an order for more than 2,000 trucks with Scania (Great Britain), making it the latter’s largest ever deal anywhere in Europe.
Tractor Units
Microlise has launched its HGV Driver of the Year awards for 2016, with four new categories and a revised entry process claimed to enable transport operators to put their best drivers forward.
Driver / People Management