First Bus is helping UK delivery company, DPD, to carry out more green journeys in Glasgow in a milestone move which sees the transport operator’s ambitions from COP26 come to life. At the global climate change conference last year, First Bus set out its aim offer local businesses use of the extensive electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure at its Caledonia Depot.
Electric Vehicles
The tour covers its huge, 160-bus capacity electrification system.
Electric Vehicles
Warwickshire-based Crown Waste Management is using four Volvo FMX 420 8x4 tippers and will receive 16 Volvo trucks over the next 18 months.
Tippers
Arriva North West has selected Stertil Koni’s heavy-duty wireless mobile column lift ST1075FWA to support workshop activities at its Runcorn depot in Cheshire.
Lifting Equipment
After a three year wait, the bus and coach industry is eagerly anticipating the return of its principal trade show, Euro Bus Expo, taking place at the NEC Birmingham on 1-3 November. The exhibition is set to return with a renewed vigour and spotlights on innovation, decarbonisation, and the future of passenger transport.
Bus & Coach
Scotland-based waste removal firm WM Hamilton & Sons is to receive new tyres as part of an extended contract with Continental tyre service provider R&J Strang.
Tyres & Retreads
While contract repair and maintenance (R&M) is virtually a given for new vehicles in trucking, this is far from the case in the smaller and more diverse coach sector. Richard Simpson finds out why
Bus & Coach
Scottish haulage specialist Yuill & Dodds has acquired 10 Tiger Trailer curtainsiders from Asset Alliance Group to help improve the efficiency of its waste recycling operation.
Trailers
Ferns Group is using four IVECO Daily 3.5T dropsides capable of carrying piping and tools for 10–12-hour installations for new telecoms infrastructure.
Truck Efficiency
When are two identical gearboxes, fitted in two identical trucks, not actually the same at all? When those gearboxes are modern automated manual transmissions (AMTs), which means there’s a computer between the driver and the machine. Lucy Radley speaks to three OEMs about the electronic brains behind their boxes of cogs, to find out just how important the software really is
Gearboxes
Plant hire company Ridgway Rentals has replaced its older Renault Trucks with two 70-tonne Renault Trucks T520 6x2 tag axle tractors.
Truck Efficiency
Lincolnshire haulage firm Beelsby Contractors is using two Fruehauf tippers to improve the efficiency of its operations at Immingham Docks.
Tippers