John Mitchell Haulage & Warehousing – former winner of the Motor Transport Haulier of the Year trophy – is running a Mercedes-Benz New Actros 2545 tractor unit with flat-floored BigSpace cab.
Tractor Units
Independent regional plant and tool hire firm Eveready Hire has added three Euro 5 trucks to its expanding delivery fleet on a contract hire deal from Ryder.
Flatbed
Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles has expanded its Crafter range with an all-new Luton, introduced as part of the brand's Engineered-to-Go range in collaboration with British bodybuilder Ingimex.
Light Commercial Vehicles
Stainless steel distribution specialist Schmolz + Bickenbach has taken delivery of three new Euro 6 6x2 FM rigids in a total fleet replacement deal.
Rigids
The wide variety of weights and loads for freight must be taken into account when it comes to calculating appropriate emissions, warns the FTA (Freight Transport Association) in response to the EC report 'Reducing Heavy-duty vehicles' fuel consumption and CO2 emissions.'
Alternative Fuels
The European Commission has endorsed a new Europe-wide focus on CO2 emissions from freight transport vehicles, with its publication of a report entitled 'Reducing Heavy-duty vehicles' fuel consumption and CO2 emissions.'
Alternative Fuels
Fleet management firm Translease Services has developed a smaller, more versatile truck for builders' merchants needing to make deliveries in busy city traffic.
Flatbed
Trailer rental company Hireco has placed an order with manufacturer SDC for £10m worth of box vans, double-deck step-frame curtainsiders and urban trailers.
Longer Semi-Trailers
To celebrate its registration of the 200,000th truck in the UK since Volvo Trucks began trading in the country in 1967, the company has launched a competition to design a truck for 2050.
Tractor Units
US haulage giant Freightliner has standardised on Jost fifth wheel couplings for its artics. Daimler Trucks North America and Jost sealed the deal last week.
Fifth Wheels
Muckaway specialist West Coast Haulage has received the first batch of Euro 6 Volvo FMX 8x4s, following its order for 16 of the tippers – the first Volvos for tis fleet.
Tippers
Winners of the 2014 Logistics Carbon Reduction Scheme (LCRS) Awards were announced yesterday (21 May 2014) at the FTA's Cutting Carbon, Cutting Costs conference – receiving their awards from the DfT's John Parkinson, director for motoring, freight and London.
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