Body damage is the most common issue identified during commercial vehicle safety checks, followed by windscreen damage, mechanical noises, failed bulbs and internal damage.
Fleet Management Systems
TfL video explores the issues about driver sight lines in urban environments.
Road Safety
The 38th installment of the exhibition of the Federation of Petroleum Suppliers returns to Liverpool.
ADR Vehicles
Vehicle service and recovery business RD Avery has taken delivery of its first new recovery vehicle, a DAF New XF 530 FAS.
Rigids
Grimsby-based Evans European Transport has taken delivery of a Fuso Canter 7.5-tonne refrigerated truck fitted with a sleeper body, with “more than a tonne” more payload than other manufacturers could offer.
Temperature Controlled Vehicles
Derbyshire-based tipper operator Aggrecom has taken delivery of a new Volvo roadsweeper truck. Supplied by dealer Hartshorne Motor Services, the Volvo FL 4x2 rigid is powered by a D8K engine producing 247bhp.
Rigids
Commercial vehicle converter ULEMCo is planning to convert a diesel-powered 16-l Volvo FH truck to run on hydrogen combustion.
Alternative Fuels
Road marking business WJ UK has taken delivery of the UK’s first 18-tonne Volvo FL with factory-fitted crew cab, after positive experience with a 16-tonne version.
Rigids
DAF dealer Imperial Commercials reopened its Wellsbourne Park, Warwick site last week (9 April) exactly one month after a serious fire at an adjacent business.
Dealerships
Lancashire-based office furniture manufacturer Senator has taken delivery of new drawbar trailers and demount bodies from Tiger Trailers, to help boost efficiency for inner city deliveries.
Trailers
Nottingham-based tipper operator Oakfield Plant & Transport has taken delivery of four new Scania vehicles fitted with Loadmaster Lite bodies, by Thompsons.
Tippers
Volvo Trucks has announced that the first vehicles from its new FL Electric range have gone into operation with two customers in Gothenburg.
Electric Vehicles