Kettering Borough Council has renewed its contract with Specialist Fleet Services (SFS) for a further nine years and has ordered new vehicles to operate on its newly merged operation with Corby Borough Council.
Finance & Leasing
Retailer Heron Foods has extended its trailer fleet to 90 units, with its latest 20-strong order for semi-trailers from Gray & Adams, supplied on contract hire by Grayrentals.
Semi-Trailers
Bus operator Tower Transit has ordered 28 Wrightbus StreetDeck HEV vehicles, to be deployed in the capital next summer.
Bus & Coach
Kirk Ennis, distribution improvement manager at British Gypsum, has won an innovation award for his work in developing a device to stop HGVs becoming detached from trailers.
CouplingsMayor of London Sadiq Khan has announced a £23m van scrappage scheme to help micro-businesses – those with fewer than 10 employees – to prepare for the forthcoming London ultra low emission zone (ULEZ).
Emissions Control
ABE Transport has implemented the Truckfile workshop and fleet management system, and transport compliance manager Jeff Pryce says “I can’t ever imagine being without it”.
Fleet Management Systems
Dutch supermarket chain Jumbo has taken delivery of DAF’s first fully electric truck, the CF Electric.
Electric Vehicles
£41,909 - £53,076 (depending on experience) – plus excellent benefits package and bonus
People
A 22-year-old apprentice from City West Commercials, in Avonmouth, has won the Mercedes-Benz award for commercial vehicle technical apprentice of the year.
Apprenticeships
Commercial vehicle hire and sales business MV Commercial has launched an asset finance division, promising flexible funding packages for new premium trucks.
Car Transporters
Porsche has commissioned a fully electric MAN eTGM for logistics operations at its Stuttgart-Zuffenhausen factory, where it is developing the first all-electric Porsche.
Electric Vehicles
Explanatory cut-away video that explains the mechanical principles of the ZF intarder, its transmission-mounted hydraulic retarder that the company claims can save 90% of service brakes.
Braking Systems