Specialist support-vehicle provider to the TV and film industry, Facilities by ADF, is expanding its exclusively DAF fleet with an additional 25 trucks to deliver on-location support for shows...
Dealerships
Cheshire-based Boughey Distribution has completed a five-year deal with Thomas Hardie Commercials for the supply of Volvo’s new-generation FH model, which will be in production from April 2021.
Tractor Units
UK bus manufacturer Mellor is to supply a full-electric Orion E bus for Nottingham City Council’s Highways England-funded Electric Van Experience (EVE) Project. The council says it has earmarked the...
Electric Vehicles
The IRTE Skills Challenge testing stage will be postponed until the week commencing 21 June, when it is hoped all restrictions on social contact and large events will be lifted.
Apprenticeships
Fleet management firm ARI has appointed Rachel Bullen to the newly-created role of transport compliance manager to help its fleet customers manage the increasing demands of legislation and compliance.
Operator Compliance Risk Score
c-trace’s dynamic weighing system is now helping Biffa provide accurate weights of glass and food waste collected from pub and restaurant chains and supermarkets across the UK.
Municipal Vehicles
Food manufacturer and retailer Cook has responded to demand for its frozen ready meals by adding another Mercedes-Benz truck to its logistics fleet.
Temperature Controlled Vehicles
Following two years of trials with Manchester City Council, Biffa has rolled out a fleet of 27 full-electric refuse collection vehicles from Electra Commercial Vehicles. The fleet is said to be the...
Electric Vehicles
John Parry, former director of IRTE and fellow of the IRTE and Society of Operations Engineers, died on 25 February. He was 76.
Irtec
Essex-based haulier Hammond Transport has taken delivery of a New Generation MAN 26.510 TGX 6x2 tractor with the GX cab.
Tractor Units
Specialising in nationwide pallet collection, distribution and general haulage, the start-up has just taken delivery of two IVECO S-WAY tractors.
Tractor Units
North-East independent waste management company J&B Recycling is setting new standards for safety in its sector after commissioning three of the UK’s first low-entry Econics to be equipped with...
Road Safety