Tyres with a lower efficiency rating can, at certain speeds, perform as well as higher-rated tyres.
Tyres & Retreads
Temperature-controlled distribution business McCulla is trialling a Gray & Adams semi-trailer fitted with its latest-generation panel cappings, and is already reporting fuel savings of 5%.
Semi-Trailers
ATS Euromaster is extending its van MOT facilities, investing almost £1 million to enable it to offer Class VII MOTs at 15 more of its nationwide centres.
Road Legal
Older buses should have emissions busting technology retrofitted to reduce public health issues from air pollution, rather than waiting up to 20 years for new vehicles to dominate UK bus fleets.
Bus & CoachGoodyear's Fuelmax truck tyres have taken top spot in independent tests to measure the rolling resistance of four leading tyre brands.
Tyres & Retreads
Transport operator Premier Logistics has purchased eight used Renault Premium tractor units – the first Renault trucks to join its 80-strong fleet.
Tractor UnitsMarks & Spencer is trialling a 360-degree camera system to assess the benefits of single-image surround view system on rigid trucks – and to establish whether it could be extended to articulated...
Telematics
Roadside recovery organisation the AA is taking delivering of 90 new Transporter vans from Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles, as part of a two-way deal which sees the AA providing roadside assistance to...
Light Commercial Vehicles
Fuel duty campaign group FairFuelUK is applauding the government's agreement that lower fuel duty can stimulate economic growth, after a meeting at the treasury on Monday (9 June 2014) hailed by both...
Fuel Pricing
Cornwall's oldest liquid waste business Pellows Waste Disposal has taken delivery of a new vacuum tanker, with the tanker supplied by Whale Tankers.
Tankers
Operator James Nuttall (Transport) has purchased two Euro 6 Mercedes-Benz New Actros rigids, after a four-week trial revealed what it describes as significant fuel and Adblue savings.
Rigids
Groupage operator McNally Logistics has taken delivery of a Krone Profi Liner curtainsider trailer which, it says, is enabling it to transport a variety of loads efficiently and safely.
Trailers