Hiab, part of Cargotec, has announced more than €2 million of orders from UK customers for its loader cranes.
Cranes
ATL Warehousing & Distribution has taken delivery of eight new Volvo trucks, ordered following positive performance for four years from a Volvo FH tractor.
Rigids
Brian Yeardley Continental is adding three of DAF’s New XF 480 FT low-deck tractors to its fleet – the first to be delivered in the UK.
Tractor Units
Lifting equipment manufacturer Penny Hydraulics has completed a £2 million upgrade of its site in Clowne, Derbyshire, which includes a new manufacturing plant and warehousing facility.
Renault Trucks has strengthened its presence in Scotland with the acquisition of the Border Trucks dealership at Bellshill, near Glasgow.
Dealerships
Delegates will be invited to consider the concept "Compliance, what does it mean to you?” and will be encouraged to review how their business tackles compliance issues and manages compliance on a daily basis.
Driver / People Management
Three Volvo trucks run in a platoon on the E19 motorway between Brussels and Anvers.
Road Tests
Mansfield haulier Alexander Coates has had his licence revoked and been disqualified from holding or obtaining an operator’s licence for six months.
Transport CPC
Zenith Logistics Services UK has taken delivery of five new Legras 13.5m tri-axle moving floor trailers on a five-year deal from TIP Trailer Services.
Trailers
Iveco has announced that it is now taking orders for the right-hand drive version of its Eurocargo Natural Power truck.
Alternative Fuels
Howard Tenens, one of the UK’s largest privately-owned logistics companies, has become one of the first UK hauliers to introduce dedicated gas vehicles into its fleet, after having taken delivery of two 26-tonne rigid dedicated gas vehicles from Scania, the first of these vehicles types to operate in the UK.
Alternative Fuels
The Road Haulage Association has published a clarification from DVSA over a ban on lorry driver weekly rests taken ‘in-cab’ from 1 November.
Driver / People Management