What is the best way to finance a commercial vehicle for short-term use? Peter Shakespeare looks at some options
Finance & Leasing
Cambridge University is using a new test procedure to examine the air flow around an artic, especially beneath the trailer, where aerodynamic drag is at its worst. Brian Weatherley reports
Trailers
Go-Ahead has developed, and is now trialling, what may be the first prototype of a filter for urban air. Will Dalrymple reports
Air Conditioning
The introduction of IT systems to the workshop environment means that, for many operators, the only paper you’ll find in the garage is for wiping dipsticks, reports Richard Simpson
Maintenance
Aftermarket conversions allow diesel trucks to burn a proportion of gaseous fuel – usually CNG or LPG, but sometimes LNG – alongside regular derv. The gas is usually cheaper, has lower carbon content and may produce less particulate matter. By Toby Clark
Alternative Fuels
Transport for London (TfL) has launched a comprehensive new safety standard that will result in major, mandatory changes to the capital’s buses. Including everything from autonomous emergency braking (AEB) to improvements to frontal crashworthiness, their introduction will be staggered from 2019 to 2024, reports Steve Banner
Road Safety
All coaches used on scheduled services must be wheelchair accessible by 2020. Richard Simpson takes a look at the products and the pitfalls
Bus & Coach
An old saying goes: you may not be interested in politics, but politics is interested in you. The same sentiments apply, I think, to data. Our friends at Cambridge Analytica, the notorious Facebook marketing firm, understand that today, data is power.
Maintenance
Renault Trucks is expanding its range of used vehicles with the Range T P-Road, a tractor converted into a rigid.
Rigids
Jacobs Vehicle Systems has launched Active Decompression Technology (ADT), which enables larger commercial vehicles to use an engine stop-start system by overcoming the traditional problem of engine-shake at both start-up and shutdown.
Engines & Engine Parts
A three-year, 3,000-vehicle project to test the impact of electric commercial vehicles has been announced today (30 November), after receiving the go-ahead from UK energy regulator Ofgem.
Electric Vehicles
Oil, lubricants and treatments manufacturer Millers Oils has launched a new fully-synthetic commercial vehicle engine oil developed for Euro VI engines.
Lubricants & Systems