Volvo Trucks is suggesting that electric long-distance, heavy-duty trucks, not just buses, could become a reality sooner than many think – with power lines built into the surface of the road.
Electric Vehicles
Plant equipment rental specialist Speedy Services showed one of 24 specially designed four-axle delivery trucks that it has just put into service at yesterday's (27 June 2013) Vertikal Days lifting...
Flatbed
James Tillyer, of the FTA's (Freight Transport Association) consultancy team, has been re-elected president of the European Transport Training Association (EuroTra) for a further two-year term.
Road Safety
A major project in in South Wales, which aims to reclaim abandoned mine works and spoil heaps for public use is using a fleet of carefully specified bulk tippers.
Tippers
Carlsberg has joined the list of major transport operators talking about improving efficiency and cutting costs in transport operations at this year's IRTE Conference.
Engine/Transmission Management
Bodybuilder Cartwright, which already has Conformity of Production and Whole Vehicle Type Approval for all its trailers, says it is working towards conformity across its entire range, including...
Standards & Practices
Fruit and vegetable wholesaler Robert Antcliffe is a convert to Hankook tyres since his RA08 front tyres, fitted as original equipment, notched up 87,000 miles on a Ford Transit Jumbo he bought in...
Tyres & Retreads
Nissan has taken its largest LCV corporate deal yet, with an initial 275 vans ordered for Richard Irvin Services Group (RISG), the Scottish building services and engineering company.
Car Derived Vans
As we prepare to welcome Peter Walsh next month as the new chief executive of the SOE (Society of Operations Engineers, the umbrella organisation for the IRTE), it's prudent to pause and consider the...
Fleet Operating Costs
New to Langdons is a Nagel Group liveried 26-tonne Scania-chassised slipstream, as the cold and frozen haulage and distribution specialist looks to trial new cost-reducing ideas and bodies from over...
RigidsClaes Jacobsson, currently senior vice president financial services for Scania and based at the company's headquarters in Södertälje, Sweden, has been appointed managing director of Scania (Great...
People
A right-hand drive new FMX 8x4 tipper and an FMX Tridem truck were launched in the UK on the Volvo Trucks stand at Tip-ex last week (30 May 2013) – following their debut at ther German BAUMA event in...
Tippers