The IRTE Skills Challenge testing stage will be postponed until the week commencing 21 June, when it is hoped all restrictions on social contact and large events will be lifted.
Apprenticeships
Fleet management firm ARI has appointed Rachel Bullen to the newly-created role of transport compliance manager to help its fleet customers manage the increasing demands of legislation and compliance.
Operator Compliance Risk Score
c-trace’s dynamic weighing system is now helping Biffa provide accurate weights of glass and food waste collected from pub and restaurant chains and supermarkets across the UK.
Municipal Vehicles
Food manufacturer and retailer Cook has responded to demand for its frozen ready meals by adding another Mercedes-Benz truck to its logistics fleet.
Temperature Controlled Vehicles
Following two years of trials with Manchester City Council, Biffa has rolled out a fleet of 27 full-electric refuse collection vehicles from Electra Commercial Vehicles. The fleet is said to be the UK’s largest-ever fleet of electric RCVs.
Electric Vehicles
John Parry, former director of IRTE and fellow of the IRTE and Society of Operations Engineers, died on 25 February. He was 76.
Irtec
Essex-based haulier Hammond Transport has taken delivery of a New Generation MAN 26.510 TGX 6x2 tractor with the GX cab.
Tractor Units
Specialising in nationwide pallet collection, distribution and general haulage, the start-up has just taken delivery of two IVECO S-WAY tractors.
Tractor Units
North-East independent waste management company J&B Recycling is setting new standards for safety in its sector after commissioning three of the UK’s first low-entry Econics to be equipped with Mercedes-Benz Trucks’ latest accident prevention technology.
Road Safety
SOE, the parent group of IRTE, is launching a new awards programme later this year, the SOE Safety and Sustainability Awards 2021. These awards will celebrate successes in safety and sustainability across the road transport, plant, environment and surveying sectors.
Road Safety
Cummins is to produce medium-duty engine systems for Mercedes-Benz brand owner Daimler Truck AG, according to the terms of a new global strategic partnership.
Engines & Engine Parts
First Glasgow, Alexander Dennis Ltd (ADL) and BYD UK are collaborating to deliver a £9 million investment in 22 new fully electric buses onto the Glasgow city bus network and into operation ahead of the UN’s COP26 conference which will be held there in November.
Electric Vehicles