An enhanced programme and impressive speaker line-up are promised for the 2018 Microlise Transport Conference.
Telematics
In Norway and Sweden, Volvo Trucks is introducing a cloud-based service that allows Volvo trucks and Volvo cars to automatically alert each other to hazardous traffic situations in real time.
Road Safety
Mercedes-Benz Trucks dealer City West Commercials has achieved a long-held ambition by opening a new service centre in Exeter.
Workshop Management Systems
Bridgestone UK has secured the company’s biggest-ever commercial fleet partnership across Europe, after signing a five-year supply and service agreement with Stagecoach.
Tyres & Retreads
A visit to RoadEfficiency LIVE event helped convince Port Express that its next batch of trucks should be equipped with the latest, state-of-the-art Mercedes-Benz safety technology.
Road Safety
IVECO has launched its own second-generation parts line providing operators of light commercial vehicles and trucks – typically six years old or more – with a competitively priced and growing range of...
Brakes & Braking Systems
The agreement is an extension of a contract signed in 2015, and will involve the provision of tyres from Goodyear’s KMAX, RHT, TreadMax and Omnitrac ranges, for Suttons’ UK fleet of 380 tractor units.
Tyres & Retreads
DAF Trucks’ in-house finance division, PACCAR Financial, has reacted quickly to ease concerns of DAF operators with rental agreements with TOM Vehicle Rental after the Airdrie, Scotland-based,...
Finance & Leasing
England and Wales lorry loader crane distributor T H White has acquired Falkirk-based Outreach Truck, the Palfinger distributor for Scotland. The newly-combined company is now trading as Palfinger UK....
Bodies & Bodywork
A year after converting the world’s first bus depot from diesel to electric outside of China, Go-Ahead Group’s Waterloo Bus Garage racked up a million electric miles by February. Will Dalrymple...
Alternative Fuels
In the aftermath of the VW diesel emissions scandal, DVSA tested petrol cars and diesel vans, trucks and buses in 2017. Its report has just been published.
Emissions Control
The tipper and tanker show returns to Harrogate, 31 May–2 June, boasting more than 100 exhibitors in and around the Harrogate Convention Centre. That includes those featured in the co-located Drain-ex...
Tankers