Nissan has announced that its award-winning pick-up, the Navara, now comes with a 2.3-litre dCi Euro 6 engine.
Light Commercial Vehicles
The Road Haulage Association is reminding members that they must remember to notify ‘material changes’ to an enforcement agency, if they have been issued with an improvement notice.
Standards & Practices
Telecoms and IT business QDOS Communications has taken delivery of five Mercedes-Benz Citan vans – its first Mercedes vehicles and a departure from its previous rental strategy.
Finance & Leasing
MAN Truck & Bus has released more details for its new van, the TGE, which is expected to be unveiled at the IAA Show in Hanover next month (22-29 September).
Light Commercial Vehicles
Construction material supplier Gleeson Quarries has taken delivery of two Renault Range C trucks, the first of this marque to join its 40-strong fleet.
Axles
HR Davies of Tredegar, south-east Wales, has taken delivery of the company’s first new Volvo truck, an FH-540, 8x4 concrete mixer.
Concrete Mixers
Public authority the City of London Corporation has banned new diesel vehicles from its fleet.
Alternative Fuels
Nick Jones has been appointed as the first full-time traffic commissioner for Wales, and will take up his new post on 1 October.
Driver CPC
Refuse vehicle and plant hire business Go Plant Group has taken delivery of a new 26-tonne low profile plant body from Andover Trailers.
Bodies & Bodywork
Public services provider Amey has taken delivery of seven new recycling collection vehicles for its contract with the Isle of Wight Council.
Municipal Vehicles
Scania dealer Haydock Commercial Vehicles has announced that it is planning to open a major new site in the North West, adjacent to junction 8 of the M62.
Dealerships
Autonomous and semi-autonomous vehicles are in the headlines again, after a Tesla car crashed in China last week, with the driver claiming it was sold as ‘self-driving’ and Tesla countering that it was, in fact, in autopilot mode and the driver should have had contact with the steering wheel.
Driver Assistance Systems