Waste management company Grundon has extended its fleet with a Euro 6 DAF LF 220 FA with 12.6 cubic-metre capacity rear-loader ‘K-Maxi’ body from refuse and recycling business NTM-GB in Kidderminster.
Municipal Vehicles
Schaeffler is taking its OE aftermarket commercial vehicle parts on the road with a new fleet of technical and customer support vehicles – all high roof long wheelbase Volkswagen Crafters.
Brakes & Braking Systems
Shell has today (29 September 2015) opened its third LNG (liquefied natural gas) truck refuelling station in the Netherlands – in Amsterdam’s western port area.
Alternative Fuels
First Glasgow’s £25 million bus depot and head office has been equipped with a high-specification Junair commercial spraybooth with two pneumatic access platforms and a paint mixing room.
Bodyshop Equipment
Penfold Driveways has taken delivery of its first Euro 6 truck, a Mercedes-Benz Arocs tipper, which joins the firm’s other Arocs acquired nine years ago.
Rigids
Tyre manufacturer Dunlop and the Road Haulage Association kicked off their HGV Heroes campaign yesterday (27 September) to highlight the shortage of HGV drivers.
Driver / People Management
Early findings from research show that improved visibility from newly designed HGVs outweighs any of the perceived downsides, a recent CLOCS working group meeting was told.
CLOCS
Go-Ahead has retained MiX Telematics to deliver telematics for its 4,500-strong nationwide fleet of buses for another three years.
Driver / People Management
The project that is seeing Highways England working with motorway services operator Welcome Break and drive-over tyre pressure monitoring technology developer WheelRight is now set to continue to the end of this year (2015).
Tyres & Retreads
OESAA’s (Original Equipment Suppliers Aftermarket Association) ‘Our Quality, Your Reputation’ campaign – aimed at promoting original equipment (OE) parts at independent garages – has a new member. In the form of Hella.
Gearboxes
Robert Walker (Haulage) – the operator famous for moving Donald Campbell’s water speed challenger Bluebird back in 1965 – has taken delivery of two new Euro-6 DAF XF 460 FTG Super Space Cab trucks after what the firm describes as exceptional reliability from its earlier used DAF trucks.
Tractor Units
Some 200 fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEV), 125 fuel cell range-extended electric vans (FC RE-EV) and 29 hydrogen refuelling stations (HRS) are to be deployed across Europe and Scandinavia under a new Hydrogen Mobility Europe (H2ME) project.
Alternative Fuels