Iceland Foods is to release a bespoke electric delivery vehicle for government-funded trials to help EVs break into the chilled goods delivery sector.
Temperature Controlled Vehicles
Essential Fleet Services has taken delivery of four 8x6 Mercedes-Benz Arocs gritters – the UK’s first – for its contract with Lincolnshire County Council.
Municipal Vehicles
Arriva has placed a £2 million order with MAN Bus & Coach for EcoCity vehicles powered by CNG (compressed natural gas) fuel.
Alternative Fuels
European litigation specialist Bentham has today (14 November 2016) revealed that it intends to fund legal action on behalf of truck purchasers who have been victims of the European truck cartel.
Social / Corporate Responsibility
Swedish industrial business VBG Group is acquiring commercial vehicle climate control system supplier Mobile Climate Control (MCC), in a deal which VBG says will deliver “favourable growth opportunities”, notably in the bus sector.
Bus & Coach
Chelmsford-based Dunmow Waste Management is using its flagship Volvo FH-540 tractor unit to promote the CDKL5 UK charity, which raises awareness and funding for the rare genetic disorder of that name.
Social / Corporate Responsibility
Knorr-Bremse is reporting that the board of Swedish braking systems supplier Haldex has advised shareholders that Knorr-Bremse’s offer of SEK 125.00 per share has strong financial and business benefits.
Brakes & Braking Systems
Dearman, the clean cold technology company, has won a prize at the National Air Quality Awards, held yesterday (10 November) at the QEII Centre, in London.
Alternative Fuels
Commercial vehicle livery business Smart Graphics has taken delivery of four 3.5-tonne Ford Transit vans, on a four-year contract hire from Ryder.
Finance & Leasing
Tesco has expanded its deployment of Microlise telematics solutions to 940 of its trailers in Hungary, Slovakia, Poland and the Czech Republic.
Telematics
The first Wrightbus Streetlite single-decker built using the bus OEM’s third-generation micro hybrid technology was handed over to Metrobus at last week’s Euro Bus Expo (1—3 November 2016).
Bus & Coach
The Freight Transport Association has welcomed the government’s proposal of higher fines and more stringent penalties for drivers using handheld phones, but warns that this could have little effect without better enforcement.
Driver / People Management