United Utilities has taken delivery of a low height Volvo FM-460 drawbar tanker, after an extensive specification exercise including the use of a full-size Styrofoam model of the cab.
Heavy Goods Vehicles
Arriva North West has taken delivery of nine Mellor Strata Low Floor buses, with the smaller vehicle chosen for its capacity on short distance routes around Macclesfield and Winsford.
Bus & Coach
The owner of a pallet firm will be disqualified from running vehicles and lose his transport licence from 11 August, after he was found to have been “self-serving” and showed continued ignorance of his duties.
Driver CPC
Roofing business Proteus Waterproofing has taken delivery of its first fleet vehicle, a Renault Range C rear-steer rigid, citing the dealer’s service and ability to customise the truck’s specification, including a bespoke load-securing system.
Rigids
Aggregates and bulk haulage firm Lime Logistics has taken delivery of its first lower cab Mercedes-Benz Arocs and says it will “definitely be going for the reduced height version” in the future.
Rigids
Wetherby-based Suttle Transport Services has acquired three lifting, sliding-roof Krone Profi Liner curtainsiders to carry its diverse high-cube loads.
Trailers
Anglian Water says it is expecting the implementation of Jaama’s Key2 software to be “a game-changer” for the management of its entire fleet, including 100 HGVs, 1,800 vans and seven workshops.
Driver / People Management
Reading Buses has updated its vehicle maintenance operations with a mobile system to replace job cards and inspection reports in the workshop.
Bus & Coach
Mitsubishi Fuso Truck and Bus Corporation celebrated the start of small-scale series production of what it called the world’s first all electric light-duty truck, the Fuso eCanter.
Electric Vehicles
Plant hire business CBL has renewed its fleet with 11 Iveco Stralis rigids and four Daily Hi-Matic light commercials, after a seed Stralis “delivered on all fronts” during its first year in operation.
Light Commercial Vehicles
Carrier Transicold Glasgow has taken top spot in the 2017 Carrier Safe awards, scoring a near-perfect 98% in the organisation’s health and safety programme.
Temperature Controlled Vehicles
Dealer Sandown Mercedes-Benz is using Maxoptra routing and scheduling software linked to in-cab telematics and navigation to boost efficiency and improve customer service.
Telematics