Keeping up with tyres and running gear is a problem for many operators. Steve Banner talks to Thamesdown Transport about one of its latest projects
Tyres & Retreads
Nowhere is weight contested as fiercely as in the tipper market, where payload is almost always king. However, with issues around Euro 6, safety and type approval, there are other factors to consider....
Tippers
Just as you would expect specialists, not GPs, to diagnose rare conditions, so you might turn to OEMs' diagnostic tools for your truck ills. Or should you? Steve Banner gives us a sanity check
Diagnostic Equipment
Light-weighting vans and LCVs is big business, as operators increasingly demand higher payloads from lower gvw rated vehicles. Steve Banner reports on what works and what doesn't
Car Derived Vans
Some 900 Euro 3 London buses are being converted to near Euro 6 emissions standards, with funding from Transport for London. Steve Banner finds out more.
Bus & Coach
Lightweighting and alternative materials may not be reducing chassis strength, but design complexity is impacting crash repairs and timescales. Steve Banner reports
Bodyshop Equipment
Converting chassis cabs has always been a costly business, but with the advent of ECWVTA, life is becoming a lot tougher – to the extent of stifling innovation. Steve Banner explains
Whole Vehicle Type Approval
Light-weighting, size reduction and improving safety have been driving developments with truck-mounted loader cranes. Steve Banner reports
Cranes
Equipment and materials for body shops and paint shops don't come cheap – and neither does compliance with the likes of PAS 125. But getting damaged vehicles back on the road fast and fully...
Bodyshop EquipmentWhether you opt for new vehicles on R&M packages or prefer in-house or independent workshops for new and used trucks and vans, you better make sure they're up to the job. Steve Banner reports
Irtec
Even the emergency services need to concern themselves with fuel saving as the cost reduction agenda continues to bite. Steve Banner steps out with Northamptonshire Police
Telematics
Arguments about over where to get OE spares, but two things are certain: competition is cutting prices and improving service; and there are still cowboys out there offering OE parts that are certainly...
Gearboxes