News in this month of an apprentice exchange between Royal Mail and trailer manufacturer Cartwright; Royal Mail’s apprentice mechanics travelled to the Cartwright factory to see how the trailers that...
ApprenticeshipsTransport Engineer’s newsroom is now closed for the Christmas period.
People
Explanatory cut-away video that explains the mechanical principles of the ZF intarder, its transmission-mounted hydraulic retarder that the company claims can save 90% of service brakes.
Braking Systems
Go-Ahead has developed, and is now trialling, what may be the first prototype of a filter for urban air. Will Dalrymple reports
Air Conditioning
An old saying goes: you may not be interested in politics, but politics is interested in you. The same sentiments apply, I think, to data. Our friends at Cambridge Analytica, the notorious Facebook...
Maintenance
Lighting and electronics business Hella has launched a battery-powered lighting system for trailers, to ensure the equipment can be seen by other road users when decoupled and parked up at night.
Lighting
Lucy Clark, apprentice engineer, Stagecoach, mechanics and electrics, discusses how she got into engineering, in a careers video published by the large bus operator.
Apprenticeships
Readers are invited to take a survey to gain a chance to win £100 in Amazon vouchers.
Social / Corporate Responsibility
Natural-gas powered drivelines are a major focus of your package this month; they are covered in two lead magazine articles, plus a third in the attached IRTE Conference report.
Alternative Fuels
A panel discussion on skills at the 2018 IRTE conference took in candidate recruitment, the apprentice levy, training providers and standards of competence. Will Dalrymple listened in
Apprenticeships
"Having introduced the Society of Operations Engineers’ 2025 Vision a year ago, I can report today at the 2018 IRTE conference that we are well on the way to delivering it.
Irtec
Thanks to new technology, modern commercial vehicles are telling their users their maintenance requirements; the difficulty is understanding what it is they are saying, according to speakers from...
Fleet Management Systems