The COP28 summit’s recognition of the need to move away from fossil fuels is another setback for diesel. But hydrogen fuel could take over. Two different uses of the lightest element in the universe –...
Alternative Fuels
Two alternatives to diesel propulsion are profiled this month, both based on hydrogen (see p18). It’s exciting to see the arrival of promising candidates for decarbonisation of the heaviest HGVs, and...
Alternative Fuels
The first overview of a two-year, £10m trial of 20 battery-electric 4x2 rigids emerged at the Cenex-LCV show at UTAC Millbrook in September, before the on-road demonstration officially finished that...
Electric Vehicles
DVSA’s push a few years ago to bring mobile cranes into the annual test requirements also faced by HGVs have been supported and aided by the CEO of the country’s largest crane rental firm by units,...
CranesTaking part in the IMI’s autumn 2023 automotive industry inclusion campaign, ‘There’s more to motor’ is third-year LCV technician apprentice Amy Edwards, who speaks to Will Dalrymple about her...
Apprenticeships
As a child of the 1970s, I was taught mostly by female teachers, and remember encountering many women in office-based roles (including my own mother). But in garages, the only women I remember seeing...
Apprenticeships
One of the consistently most popular pages on the Transport Engineer website is commercial vehicle recalls. The page (www.is.gd/dazeyi) now lists more than 600 entries for trucks, buses and vans...
Recalls
The expression ‘putting the cart before the horse’ implies that someone’s actions are in the wrong sequence, or their priorities are wrong. The horse goes first because it pulls the cart, which can’t...
Axles
Appointed Palletline’s group fleet manager last year, Sam Loader speaks to Will Dalrymple about apprenticeships and vehicle engineering today
Even when lifting a car, a single mobile column lift is basically useless. It’s only once a second has been linked, to bridge a van bulkhead, or another pair added that a safe vehicle lifting platform...
Lifting Equipment
How much fuel is enough? In the real world, most of us fill up completely every time we visit a forecourt. And data from the Battery Electric Truck Trial presented at the Cenex-LCV show reveal that...
Electric Vehicles
With a coach repower project, Equipmake has entered what might be the final frontier for vehicle electrification, finds Will Dalrymple