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Breakdown vehicles, mobile cranes and other specialised vehicles to require annual roadworthiness testing from May 2018

Road construction vehicles, engineering vehicles, electric trucks registered since March 2015 and some other types of specialised trucks will be required to be tested annually, following a government...

Electric Vehicles
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DVSA changes have made ATF testing worse, ATFOA survey reports

A survey found that members of the Authorised Testing Facility Operators’ Association are more dissatisfied than satisfied with DVSA’s changes made to the ATF regime, known as Next-Generation Testing....

Road Tests
News

Iveco and Paneltex exhibit new DriveAway reefers

Iveco and Paneltex have shown a new range of demonstrators in the truck OEM’s recently-expanded ‘DriveAway’ programme at the TCS&D (Temperature Controlled Storage and Distribution) show at Ricoh...

Temperature Controlled Vehicles
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Double-decker reefers: key trend at TCS&D

Multiple-deck refrigerated trailers were a highlight of the TCS&D (temperature controlled storage and distribution) show at the Ricoh Arena in September.

Temperature Controlled Vehicles
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Ryder picks Coventry technician for apprentice accolade

Ryder, UK commercial vehicle contract hire and rental provider, has chosen Coventry technician Byron Hammond as its ‘Apprentice of the Programme’ for 2017.

Apprenticeships
Events

Temperature Controlled Storage & Distribution exhibition, Coventry

Refrigerated transport and storage exhibition.

Refrigeration
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Bigger Boughton shows new side of itself at RWM

Skip and hook loader bodybuilder Boughton Engineering returns to the Recycling and Waste Management exhibition in September having just completed the most successful year in its history.

Loaders
News

Veolia names apprentice of the year

At its third consecutive apprentice awards ceremony at the House of Commons, resource management company Veolia named Taylor Halsey (27) as its apprentice of the year.

Municipal Vehicles
News

Tyre waste in bigger fleets

Michelin estimates that 42% of medium-to-large truck fleets in the UK (operating 51 or more vehicles) are still purchasing tyres on a transactional basis and managing them in-house – a process which...

Tyres & Retreads
News

Van brands offer scrappage scheme savings

Following on from the announcement from Ford in August, three other manufacturers have also announced scrappage schemes as an incentive to buy a Euro 6-compliant van.

Light Commercial Vehicles
News

Cyclist safety sensors and driver incentive system installed at Premier Palletised

London-based haulier Premier Palletised (PPL) is equipping its vehicles with CCTV technology linked to side sensors that detect when a cyclist is nearby, allowing the driver to avoid a potential...

Road Safety
News

Highlights from Low Carbon Vehicle 2017 exhibition, Millbrook, 6-7 September

The Low Carbon Vehicle 2017 show at Millbrook Proving Ground, organised by the Low Carbon Vehicle Partnership, provided the venue for several urban truck launches.

Electric Vehicles