Morris Lubricants will be backing tractors of a different kind next week, as main sponsor of the British Tractor Pullers Association Championship.
Lubricants & Systems
Kent-based Osmonds Transport & Planing has taken delivery of two new step frame trailers with beavertails from Andover Trailers.
Trailers
Transport and logistics giant Europa Worldwide says it’s installation of Masternaut Connect Telematics will improve scheduling and customer service, while also underpinning growth.
Telematics
Arkell’s Brewery has taken delivery of a 16-tonne gvw Volvo FL 240 4x2 rigid for dray duties – the third FL to feature in the fleet.
Rigids
Builders’ merchant Travis Perkins has commissioned a third low-entry Mercedes-Benz Econic, for use by its Keyline division in London.
Road Safety
Vehicle graphics company Spedian has launched a new lightweight reusable graphics system, which is said to be a world first.
Paint, Print & Livery
What is claimed to be the world’s first high-speed amphibious river taxi took to the Thames yesterday (23 May 2016) at Canary Wharf in front of potential taxi licensee firms.
Municipal Vehicles
Following Dennis Eagle’s launch of its first urban skiploader at the London CLOCS (Construction Logistics Cyclist Safety) Progress seminar back in March, the firm has now built its first low-entry cab urban tipper.
Tippers
Iveco has unveiled a Stralis Hi-Road powered by liquid biofuel (bio-LNG), which was launched at the inauguration of the BioGNVAL industrial pilot site at the Valenton plant in Val-de-Marne, France, and was fuelled for the event with gas produced by the facility’s wastewater treatment process.
Alternative Fuels
Logistics firm Aspray24 has renewed its Effitires contract with Michelin Solutions for a further three years, after suffering zero tyre-related breakdowns in the last five years.
Tyres & Retreads
Fleets are being invited to bid for £2 million of funding to support the introduction of hydrogen fuel cell cars and vans.
Alternative Fuels
The world’s first hydrogen dual-fuel RCVs (refuse collection vehicle) have been delivered to Fife Council, in Scotland, by ULEMCo, which has been championing the use of hydrogen fuelled trucks.
Alternative Fuels