Banham Poultry has renewed more than one third of its fleet with 24 new trucks and trailers on full-service contract hire from Fraikin.
Temperature Controlled Vehicles
Fleet managers could face a fourfold increase in the cost of re-gassing van air conditioning systems, with the introduction of new regulations from 1 January 2017.
Air Conditioning
The Mercedes-Benz Atego has been named Best Civil Engineering and Construction Truck 2016 by Commercial Fleet magazine.
Heavy Goods Vehicles
Fish supplier Lockers Trawlers has taken delivery of its first Isuzu truck, a 3.5-tonner, citing payload and aftersales service as key to the deal.
Rigids
BT Fleet is extending the opening hours at some of its depots in response, it says, to growing demand for out-of-hours servicing.
Repair & Maintenance
Suffolk-based B&B Skips has taken delivery of four new Mercedes-Benz trucks – four Antos and two Ategos – as part of a plan to grow and transform the business.
Rigids
Goodyear has announced a high load version of its FuelMax T range of trailer tyres with EU tyre label ‘A’-grading for fuel efficiency.
Tyres & Retreads
Roofing and window supplier SPV Group has expanded its fleet with a new Renault Range C 460 6x2, equipped with rear-mounted HMF 3220- K8 crane.
Heavy Goods Vehicles
Haulier Arthur Spriggs & Sons has received authorised repairer status for its Tewkesbury HQ from Mercedes-Benz and Fuso Trucks – the first step in its ambitious plans to open a network of commercial vehicle maintenance depots across the south of England.
Heavy Goods Vehicles
Volvo Trucks has launched a new safety campaign aimed at cyclists, called ‘See and Be Seen’.
Road Safety
Getting vehicle dynamics right is an engineering specialisation all of its own. Brian Tinham talks to one of the best known simulation specialists about how to get from concept to reality faster
Suspensions
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Corporate Liability