A number of options to increase visibility of semi-trailers beyond the required minimum standards are now offered to operators. Steve Banner sees the light
While the major van brands ready the deployment of electric models, some new players with unfamiliar names look set to carve out a major slice of the expanding global electric van market, reports...
Electric Vehicles
Steve Banner profiles DAF Trucks’ apprenticeship provision operated with City of Bristol College
Apprenticeships
Battery-electric refuse collection vehicles offer zero emissions in operation, but much effort and expense is required of the operator to reach that point, finds Steve Banner
Electric Vehicles
Improving air quality in London has not been only about imposing restrictions on older HGVs. The city’s fleet of buses has not been exempt, and a massive retrofit project is nearing its end, reports...
Emissions Control
Fleet operators UK-wide are involved in an almost bewildering variety of initiatives to make their employees and the vehicles they drive safer, writes Steve Banner
Road Safety
Fitting an electric axle to a semi-trailer to provide the tractor unit with a power boost when necessary is not a new idea, but its time might have come, reports Steve Banner
Vehicle Electrics & Electronics
Not necessarily needed every day, recovery vehicles are still the only solution for some jobs, finds Steve Banner
Fleet Operating Costs
IVECO and Nikola of the USA are aiming to persuade UK and European hauliers to go zero-emission for long-haul work with the launch of a hydrogen fuel cell truck with a claimed range of up to 500...
Alternative Fuels
The humble gully emptier trundles along municipal roads, clearing drains to keep traffic flowing. But its sophisticated pressure equipment also requires regular – and in some cases specialist –...
Maintenance
Truck operators can garner significant weight savings by reducing the middle axle in 6x2s. Steve Banner focuses on the bodybuilding implications of mid-lifts
Axles
Bitter winter weather will soon seek out any weakness in a truck's starter battery and exploit it. Result? The engine will refuse to fire up and neither the vehicle nor its cargo will be going...
Batteries