Will Dalrymple

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Builders’ merchant chooses MAN for new fleet addition

MAN Truck & Bus UK has delivered an MAN TGM 18.250 to Stalbridge Building Supplies to meet customer demands.

Fleet Management Systems
Features

The search for space

Two separate trends, both aimed at increasing trailer volume – greater length in the longer semi-trailer trial, newly extended to 2027, and greater height in new double-deck trailer models – are...

Longer Semi-Trailers
Features

Slow down in London

The mayor of London’s proposals to restrict the use of some N3G off-road style heavy goods vehicles in 2020 based on direct vision criteria (that still remain to be published) are too much, too soon,...

Health & Safety Legislation
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Glass distributor Laddaw adds first Euro 6 Sprinters to fleet

Laddaw, the wholesale and distribution arm of vehicle glass repair and replacement market leader Autoglass, is now running its first Euro 6 Mercedes-Benz Sprinter vans. In total 17 Sprinter 314 CDIs...

Finance & Leasing
News

Jewson is a thousand times better with MAN

Truck manufacturer MAN Truck & Bus UK is delivering its 1,000th vehicle to Saint-Gobain, the parent company of builders’ merchants Jewson, and to celebrate the milestone the truck has been decorated...

Vehicle Specification
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ExxonMobil launches Europe’s first oil tailored for LCVs

ExxonMobil has launched a dedicated range of high performance engine lubricants for the European light commercial vehicle sector. This new, tailored product range is the first specific light duty...

Engines & Engine Parts
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Signage firm leases 20 Mercedes-Benz vans from Ryder

Merson Group has taken delivery of 20 vans from Ryder on a 48-month lease.

Light Commercial Vehicles
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First low-entry Mercedes-Benz tractor debuts at CLOCS

Mercedes Benz showed its first low-entry 4x2 tractor unit at last week’s CLOCS conference and exhibition (14 March 2017, ExCel exhibition centre, Docklands), designed for operation in urban areas such...

Tractor Units
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TfL procurement contracts to include direct vision requirement from April

From April, Transport for London’s procurement contracts will include a requirement for ‘direct vision’ cabs for HGVs, TfL commissioner Mike Brown told the CLOCS (Construction Logistics and Community...

Tippers