Stoke-based bus and coach operator Bakers Coaches, which won an Environmental Business Award for cutting carbon emissions, is starting trials of Michelin's X Energy SaverGreen tyres this month.
Tyres & Retreads
Leicestershire Fire and Rescue Service has taken delivery of a set of six heavy-duty S6CF cable free lifts from Somerstotalkare.
Lifting Equipment
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People
Carrier Transicold has introduced the Vector 1550 City trailer refrigeration unit, with noise levels below 60dB and a standard 'nose-mount' installation.
Refrigeration
Volvo Trucks has announced measures to tackle the problem of blind spots on the passenger side, using new technology alongside public traffic education.
Health & Safety Legislation
Completion of a project to convert Optare Solos to run on in dual-fuel mode, with diesel and bio-methane, sees 11 of green buses entering service in Lincoln.
Alternative Fuels
Bridgestone Europe will demonstrate its new TPMS (tyre pressure monitoring system) for commercial vehicles at the eSafety Challenge 2011, near Vienna, today (31 May).
Tyres & Retreads
Toyota dealership Swinford Motors' new Dyson Hydraloader 3000La two-car transporter has a 3,000kg capacity low approach sliding bed, mounted on a 5.0-tonne Mercedes-Benz Sprinter 518CDI chassis.
Car Transporters
Fogarty has taken delivery of two Actros 1841 Lo-liner rigids, equipped for drawbar operation and matched to trailers having Don-Bur demountable box bodies.
TrailersTyre may degrade: cracks may occur over time between the tread and the tyre shoulder, due to faulty vulcanization between the tyre tread and shoulder. This could lead to peeling of the tyre tread. Affected tyres to be replaced Vehicles affecrted: WDB9342332L537576 to WDB9342332L537576
Recalls
Scania is offering operators of any Euro 3 commercial vehicles what it describes as "an affordable compliance solution2 to the capital's forthcoming Low Emissions Zone (LEZ) Phase 4.
Emissions Control
Mike Penning, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Transport, will be addressing the Freight Transport Association's Logistics Carbon Reduction Conference next month, on the subject of freight and greenhouse gas reduction.
Fleet Management Systems