With general election fervour heating-up across the country, IRTE wants to open a debate with its members about what engineering professionals want from their political leaders.
Continuing Professional Development
Mobile phone footage, captured by a motorist and loaded onto You Tube, shows an Arclid tanker pushing a Renault Clio at high speed along a trunk road.
Road Safety
Vehicle distribution company QVD Fleet Services has invested in a car transporter capable of carrying up to 11 of the German company's vehicles.
Car Transporters
Manchester based GITI Tire has achieved registration to ISO 9001:2008 for its supply of truck and bus tyres to the UK market.
Tyres & Retreads
A new grille and headlights, increased cab packages, anti-slip windscreen cleaning steps and interior trim enhancements are the obvious changes to the new Volvo FM, which is still aimed at the regional distribution market.
Heavy Goods Vehicles
The Road Safety Foundation has given just two stars out of a possible four to more than two-thirds of the Highways Agency's road network.
Road Safety
VOSA's fees for statutory and voluntary testing of HGVs and PSVs are to be updated from 1 April, following the consultation launched last August.
VOSA Prohibitions
Home delivery outfit Hermes says it has saved more than £300,000 from its annual transport costs, thanks in part to software used to plan optimal routing for vehicles.
Truck Efficiency
Steve Smith of Charles Clark Toyota in Wolverhampton, John Tinham of John Tinham Motor Engineer in Chelmsford and Stuart White of Complete Car Maintenance in Surrey have triumphed over nine others in the finals of Top Technician 2010.
Irtec
The 400th MAN Lion's City DD 'double-decker bus was handed over to Berlin's public transport company, Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe, at MAN Nutzfahrzeuge Gruppe's Bus Forum.
Bus & Coach
To celebrate nine decades of making low carbon commercial vehicles, Smith Electric Vehicles has taken one of the largest stands at the Commercial Vehicle Operator Show (13-15 April), to make space for it range of electric vans and minibuses.
Electric Vehicles
Construction group Balfour Beatty has gone for new Mercedes-Benz Sprinter tippers for road and pavement maintenance work on its Westminster City Council contract.
Light Commercial Vehicles