Les Hughes & Son now boasts a new 6x4 Renault Lander rigid drawbar combination on its fleet, after receiving the machine from Renualt Trucks Midlands.
Heavy Goods Vehicles
Mobile phone footage, captured by a motorist and loaded onto You Tube, shows an Arclid tanker pushing a Renault Clio at high speed along a trunk road.
Road Safety
Vehicle distribution company QVD Fleet Services has invested in a car transporter capable of carrying up to 11 of the German company's vehicles.
Car Transporters
Manchester based GITI Tire has achieved registration to ISO 9001:2008 for its supply of truck and bus tyres to the UK market.
Tyres & Retreads
The Road Safety Foundation has given just two stars out of a possible four to more than two-thirds of the Highways Agency's road network.
Road Safety
VOSA's fees for statutory and voluntary testing of HGVs and PSVs are to be updated from 1 April, following the consultation launched last August.
VOSA Prohibitions
To celebrate nine decades of making low carbon commercial vehicles, Smith Electric Vehicles has taken one of the largest stands at the Commercial Vehicle Operator Show (13-15 April), to make space for it range of electric vans and minibuses.
Electric Vehicles
Construction group Balfour Beatty has gone for new Mercedes-Benz Sprinter tippers for road and pavement maintenance work on its Westminster City Council contract.
Light Commercial Vehicles
On page 40 of the March issue of Transport Engineer, Scott Dargan, operations director at Carrier Transicold, was quoted as saying that one of the company's employees was injured after falling from a cab roof. It was, in fact, someone from a competitor company that fell.
Personal Protective Equipment
Six months ago, Norway's Tore Aase became the first person to place an order for what Volvo Trucks calls, the "world's strongest series manufactured truck", the FH16-700.
Heavy Goods Vehicles
Technology firm Nanolia reckons its product enables virtually any engine to run more efficiently, reducing fuel costs by up to 11% and emissions by 60%.
Drivelines
Two Spicer tag axle conversion kits, designed to "improve fuel efficiency, reduce vehicle weight and lower installation costs", by making it easy to change 6x2s into 6x4s and vice versa, have been introduced by Dana.
Axles