Delivery firm Grand Prix Express has signed a new five-year, full-service contract hire agreement with Fraikin for three DAF rigid trucks, thanks in part to previous experience with the company’s rental division.
Finance & Leasing
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A new Volvo FH-420 6x2 rigid equipped with Dynamic Steering is improving access to construction sites for Lancashire-based Adlington Welding Supplies.
Rigids
Aftercare Response, part of the Bevan Group, has taken delivery of three new MAN TGE vans.
Panel Vans
New faces and places in the CV world have been announced in recent weeks.
Dealerships
DVSA’s new scheme for fleet compliance, Earned Recognition, ended its pilot phase in late April with a ceremony for the 60 ‘founder’ members alongside the CV Show. The scheme now starts regular operation.
Driver / People Management
The company, one of two authorised UK ExxonMobil distributors, supplies lubricants to vehicle workshops and other customers, and now has a new Mercedes-Benz Actros delivery vehicle.
Rigids
Cheshire-based Sandbach Commercial Dismantlers has put two new Volvo trucks into operation. Founded in 1985, Sandbach Commercial Dismantlers has grown from a small-scale car and scrap merchant into a successful steel recycling company, demolition and site clearance provider and commercial breaker.
Rigids
Renault Trucks has launched a fleet management programme designed for light commercial vehicles.
Telematics
The Isle of Man Government’s Department of Infrastructure performs a diverse range of services for the Manx community, from preparing our highways for the TT to coastguard search and rescue.
People
Manchester Airport has taken delivery of two specialist Mercedes-Benz Arocs to de-ice the runways. Both vehicles have been named by the airport’s engineering team: one after a former colleague, ‘Clouey’; the other ‘Sir Bruce Thaws Ice’, after the entertainer.
Rigids
Southdown Buses has taken delivery of two new buses based on the Scania N 250 UD, after trialling a demonstrator last year.
Bus & Coach