Plant and temporary accommodation business Total Hire & Sales has taken delivery of a Mercedes-Benz 8x2 Arocs, describing the versatile vehicle as “the perfect tool for its different jobs”.
Lifting Equipment
Warrington-based Ast Signs is offering a new apprenticeship scheme for youngsters, who will learn the art of livery application for trucks, trailers, vans and even Bentley racing cars.
Apprenticeships
Hovis has taken delivery of 57 new rigid trucks, designed and built by Tiger Trailers to maximise load capacity for the bread manufacturer.
Rigids
Volvo Bus has received planning permission for a £1.3 million redevelopment of its bus and coach sales centre at Coventry.
Bus & Coach
Mellor Coachcraft’s parent Woodall Nicholson Holdings Ltd (WNHL) has acquired the entire share capital of Villmount, the holding company for Treka Bus.
Bus & Coach
Temperature-controlled logistics business Chiltern Cold Storage has commissioned four new semi-trailers from Gray & Adams, citing equipment reliability and longevity, along with “terrific residual...
Semi-Trailers
Swindon breakdown and recovery firm Scorpion Engineering has been told it cannot increase its fleet of vehicles and trailers after it was found to have committed overloading and drivers’ hours...
Driver / People Management
Waste management and recycling business NWH Group says its business growth is reliant on skips and hooks from Harsh, saying the supplier offers “the best deal out there”.
Building contractor WR Harrison Brickwork has taken delivery of its first Fuso Canter – and, in doing so, becomes one of the first UK customers for a new range of pre-bodied Fuso Canter trucks...
Light Commercial Vehicles
Midlands-based steel transporter JMP Transport Services has taken delivery of a new Krone Profi Liner trailer, citing high flexibility and secure loading as reasons for the decision.
Trailers
Scrap metal and brick/block haulier D&F Coleman has taken delivery of two new Volvo FH tractors, continuing the operator’s 40-year association with the marque.
Tractor Units
Robert Froud Bulk Haulage has returned to Andover Trailers for a fifth tri-axle step frame and specified a new plant body for its 2008-plate 26-tonne rigid – replacing competitor bodywork which had...
Trailers