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Overview of the IRTE Skills Challenge

IRTE’s Skills Challenge of bus and coach engineering technicians has opened for entrants. In the competition, contestants pit their wits against a number of tasks involving their practical and...

Bus & Coach
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Bartrums deepens ties with Fruehauf

Suffolk-based logistics solutions provider Bartrums has added three more Fruehauf stepframe bathtub tipping trailers to its fleet to boost its UK-wide malt barley haulage operation.

Trailers
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ZF acquires Intellic Germany

ZF has acquired tachograph technology company Intellic Germany to support its plans to enable Transportation as a Service.

Fleet Management Systems
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Halfords uses Webfleet tech

Halfords has installed Webfleet’s connected fleet management technology across its Mobile Expert and Halfords Commercial fleet of 700 vans as part of a driver safety initiative.

Fleet Management Systems
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Autonomous HGVs coming to Sunderland

A project has received £8 million in funding to run four zero-emission autonomous heavy goods vehicles (HGV) around the Nissan Sunderland site.

Heavy Goods Vehicles
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ULEMCo wins fleetwide hydrogen contract

ULEMCo is to provide 35 hydrogen dual-fuel utility vehicles to Aberdeen City Council (ACC) in Scotland as part of a fleet wide conversion commitment.

Tippers
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Notts & Derby uses Centrad cameras

Notts & Derby Buses has invested in five Centrad eight-camera CCTV systems that are said to offer 360-degree coverage to five vehicles.

Bus & Coach
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Reader survey now open; chance to win £100

Transport Engineer readers are invited to complete a survey to help improve the services offered by IRTE and its organisational parent SOE.

Tracking
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Jost GB appoints WG Tankers service agent

Jost GB has expanded its network of service agents through the appointment of WG Tankers, a supplier of discharge and vacuum equipment in the dry bulk industry.

Road Safety
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William Nicol opts for DAF XG+ duo

Haulier William Nicol (Aberdeen) has welcomed two New Generation DAF XG+ 530 six-wheel tractor units and has placed an order for two more same-spec vehicles.

Tractor Units
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IVECO S-Ways join Mor Cross fleet

Mor Cross Transport is using two IVECO 570 trucks to transport temporary structures to a range of clients and locations, including Buckingham Palace.

Truck Efficiency
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DAF Trucks to open assembly plant

DAF Trucks is to produce its New Generation DAF XD Electric and XF Electric this Spring at a new assembly facility in Eindhoven in The Netherlands.

Truck Efficiency