Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles technician Harry Garraway has won a gold medal at the UK Skills Show and has become the youngest qualified master technician within VW.
Continuing Professional Development
Howards Travel Group has taken delivery of a new Optare Metrocity and is reporting a 13% fuel saving compared to other single-deckers in its fleet.
Bus & Coach
Whitelink Seafoods has updated its fleet with a new Gray & Adams reefer trailer, equipped with a Vector 1550 temperature-controlled system from Carrier Transicold.
Temperature Controlled Vehicles
Fiat Professional is donating a new Fiat Talento van for a year to a charity for homeless people with mental health issues.
Light Commercial Vehicles
The search is on for the UK’s best truck drivers, as nominations are now open for the Microlise driver of the year awards.
Driver / People Management
Banham Poultry has renewed more than one third of its fleet with 24 new trucks and trailers on full-service contract hire from Fraikin.
Temperature Controlled Vehicles
Fleet managers could face a fourfold increase in the cost of re-gassing van air conditioning systems, with the introduction of new regulations from 1 January 2017.
Air Conditioning
The Mercedes-Benz Atego has been named Best Civil Engineering and Construction Truck 2016 by Commercial Fleet magazine.
Heavy Goods Vehicles
Fish supplier Lockers Trawlers has taken delivery of its first Isuzu truck, a 3.5-tonner, citing payload and aftersales service as key to the deal.
Rigids
BT Fleet is extending the opening hours at some of its depots in response, it says, to growing demand for out-of-hours servicing.
Repair & Maintenance
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) is calling on commercial and public sector organisations to do more to encourage better driving styles, leading to lower vehicle...
Suffolk-based B&B Skips has taken delivery of four new Mercedes-Benz trucks – four Antos and two Ategos – as part of a plan to grow and transform the business.
Rigids