William Dalrymple

Features

Telematics and COVID-19

Vehicle tracking data, summed up across hundreds of vehicles and thousands of trips and hundreds of thousands of miles can actually reveal quite a lot about how a transport operation works, as Abbey...

Driver / People Management
Features

Managing drivers' hours in Earned Recognition

Lucy Radley spoke to two operators who are also founder members of Earned Recognition to find out how this part of the DVSA compliance scheme works

Driver / People Management
Features

Learning from lockdown

The way lockdown has forced office workers to adapt – by staying at home, using virtual tools such as videoconferencing, and juggling the demands of family and the job at the same time – may well...

Standards & Practices
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Legal update: July 2020

This page is brought to you by specialist transport law firm Backhouse Jones. Its COVID-19 hub is available via www.is.gd/ifogih

VOSA Testing
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First awards announced in 2020 Microlise Driver of the Year competition

Drivers from Forterra Building Products and Boughey Distribution have been named in the Microlise Driver of the Year Awards 2020.

Driver / People Management
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Michelin accelerates payback in accidental tyre damage scheme

Michelin has upgraded its accidental damage guarantee, which covers the majority of its regional and on/off-road ranges.

Tyres & Retreads
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L Lynch goes 14 for 40

Established 40 years ago, L Lynch Plant Hire & Haulage is marking its four decades in business with the purchase of 14 new Thompsons tippers, ten being conventional front-end models with the remaining...

Tippers
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World’s first fuel-cell heavy trucks shipped to Switzerland

Hyundai Motor Company has shipped the first 10 units of the Hyundai Xcient Fuel Cell, what it calls the world’s first mass-produced fuel cell heavy-duty truck, to Switzerland.

Alternative Fuels
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Renault begins parts harvesting project

Renault Trucks and Indra Automobile Recycling of France are carrying out a one-year preliminary study into recycling and reusing truck parts.

Vehicle Parts
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Olympia Transport chooses Scania for its first new full-size coach

Heathrow-based Olympia Transport has taken delivery of a new Scania Touring executive coach.

Bus & Coach
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Military men Forge a new future with Actros from Ciceley Commercials

Ex-servicemen Jamie Keen and James Rose-Shaw have recruited their first truck, a striking Mercedes-Benz tractor unit, and look forward to putting nine more into action.

Tractor Units
News

Willmotts expands its Tiger Trailers fleet with 30 extra curtainsiders and trials new refrigerated range

The fleet of one of the largest independent warehousing and distribution companies in the South West has been further strengthened through the addition of 30 curtainsided vehicles from long-term...

Temperature Controlled Vehicles