The UK’s leading temporary traffic and event management specialist is now running the first of a new generation of dropside vehicles built by Bevan Specialist Products.
Drop Side
Following a competitive tender process, Amminex, Baumot Twintec, Eminox, HJS and Proventia have won places on a framework contract to upgrade around 5,000 buses to Euro VI emissions standard.
Bus & Coach
Bus and coach maintenance technicians from across the UK and Ireland competed in the seventh annual IRTE Skills Challenge, tracing faults, fixing problems and answering questions. Will Dalrymple was...
Apprenticeships
Trailer-specific telematics systems collect performance data such as braking and tyre pressures and beam it, real time, to a nearby screen. Will Dalrymple reports
Telematics
Scotland’s Traffic Commissioner, Joan Aitken, called on hauliers across the industry to make sure the place where they keep their HGVs is “safe and suitable” at all times – to protect their employees...
Driver / People Management
Refrigerated bodybuilder CoolKit has won approval for two LCV van body production schemes, the Toyota Converter programme and the Renault Ready for Business pre-bodied range.
Light Commercial Vehicles
The Freight Transport Association (FTA) has presented Maritime Transport’s Bristol Depot with the FTA Roadworthiness Award for 2017 in recognition of its high standards of vehicle and trailer...
Driver / People Management
From August 2017, roadside checks of lorries carried out by the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) will include an emissions check.
Road Legal
Truck manufacturer MAN Truck & Bus UK has supplied Lantern Recovery with a top-spec MAN TGX 26.560 6x4.
Recovery Vehicles
NewCold Advanced Cold Logistics has taken delivery of 36 Euro V1 Volvo FH tractors as part of a fleet upgrade.
Temperature Controlled Vehicles
The Freight Transport Association (FTA) says that the Queen’s Speech of 21 June is a missed opportunity to implement long-awaited reforms of the operator licensing system that governs commercial...
O Licence
A draft transport strategy published by the mayor of London proposes that London’s entire transport system would be zero-emission by 2050. It also proposes further restrictions on van and lorry use.
Road Safety