The director of a haulage firm has been banned for five years and disqualified indefinitely from acting as a transport manager, after a string of breaches showing “serious, sustained and deliberate”...
Transport CPC
The Cardiff Window Cleaning Company (CWCC) is deploying GPS tracking in its three vans and one company car, after a trial resulted in lower fuel consumption and fleet efficiency improvements.
Telematics
Storage and distribution business Farrall’s Group has taken delivery of 10 curtainsider trailers and three rigid bodies from Tiger Trailers, after a trial unit “performed outstandingly”.
Trailers
Trailer manufacturer Krone has provided a special Profi Liner curtainsider to Volvo Trucks for a test run from Gothenburg to Scotland.
Trailers
Delivery management business Whistl has signed a deal worth £2.5m with Don-Bur and TIP Trailers for 41 double-deck trailers.
Trailers
Volvo Trucks and Swedish waste management operator Renova are testing an autonomous refuse truck, which ‘learns’ specific routes and can be operated in reverse.
Municipal Vehicles
Renault Trucks will be exhibiting three vehicles from its construction range at the forthcoming TIP-ex event (1-3 June; Harrogate Convention Centre).
Axles
Bodybuilder Thompsons will using the forthcoming TIP-ex show (Harrogate Convention Centre; 1-3 June) to unveil its new ServiceTech support business.
Workshop
WH Malcolm is using a customised heavy-duty platform lift, from Sterti Koni, to facilitate vehicle washbay operations at its Glasgow site.
Workshop
Hydraulic hose business Hydraquip has taken delivery of another batch of Mercedes-Benz Sprinters, with 20 more due to enter service by the end of this year – totalling 100 new Sprinters in three...
Light Commercial Vehicles
Tiverton-based Blakes Coaches has returned from the UK Coach Rally in Blackpool (6-7 May) with the Irizar Trophy.
Bus & Coach
Concrete supplier Trenchcon has taken delivery of a Volvo FE low-entry cab (LEC) 6x2 rigid for truckmixer applications – the first vehicle of its type to enter service in the UK.
Road Safety