Pets At Home has worked with trailer manufacturer Cartwright on a particular solution to enable deliveries to an area with low bridges.
Trailers
Punchard Haulage has taken delivery of a new Volvo FH16-750 tractor, with the option of a 10-tonne rated front axle sealing the deal for the Uttoxeter-based operator.
Tractor Units
Findley Roofing & Building has taken delivery of ten 3.5-tonne Mercedes-Benz Sprinters with a further ten Mercedes-Benz Vito vans to follow, at which time the Washington-based operator’s fleet renewal to all-Mercedes will be complete.
Drop Side
Now offered to industry, the apprenticeship programme at Arriva London develops new technicians and proves their competence with irtec. Over the last three years, this operator has also trained itself, reinforcing its own technical capabilities. Will Dalrymple visits
Apprenticeships
Predicting what the UK's winter weather will throw at us is, at best, precarious. Peter Shakespeare assembles some top tips for the forthcoming season
Wheel Alignment
If not a direct replacement to batteries, super-capacitors may offer complementary benefits, finds Steve Banner
Why is lithium-ion the best choice for batteries in hybrid and all-electric trucks and buses? And what technologies are coming in the future? JMBS’s chief electrochemist Allan Paterson explains the issues to Brian Weatherley
The parts aftermarket landscape is changing; some OEMs are taking on the factors and independent distributors with lower cost remanufactured and all-marques parts. Peter Shakespeare investigates
Brakes & Braking Systems
Electric bus maintenance requires entirely different skills than repairing buses fitted with internal combustion engines. John Challen learns how operators have tooled up
Personal Protective Equipment
The other day, a haulier friend was showing me some footage of a collision taken by his on-truck camera: a passenger car ran into the back of the lorry, and the footage showed the huge kick caused by the impact. Shocking stuff, and this was pretty tame as collisions go.
Road Safety
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Aerodynamics