Contract hire and fleet management business Specialist Fleet Services (SFS) has achieved government-approved supplier status for commercial vehicles and related services.
Finance & Leasing
Cold Connect says its manufacturing partnership with Swedish transport refrigeration unit (TRU) supplier Hultsteins is delivering “a new standard” in environmentally sustainable diesel-free systems.
Temperature Controlled Vehicles
Scottish waste management business Barr has added five more Volvo trucks to its fleet, after its first Volvo vehicles “rewrote the book” on reliability and service.
Heavy Goods Vehicles
Food supplier Apetito has taken delivery of its first Volvo vehicles, acquiring six new FH tractors as part of a three-year fleet replacement programme for trunking operations.
Tractor Units
Holderness Area Rural Transport (HART) has taken delivery of a new Mellor Orion E electric bus, as part of its service that connects the rural community.
Electric Vehicles
Peugeot has hosted a challenge for six tradesmen to demonstrate the benefits of its Surround Rear Vision technology, available on the new Partner van.
Light Commercial Vehicles
Hyundai Motor has unveiled its first electric double-decker bus at a trade fair in Korea.
Electric Vehicles
Daimler Trucks has created a new division to accelerate the group-wide development of highly automated trucks.
Heavy Goods Vehicles
Builders’ and plumbers’ merchant MP Moran and Sons has taken delivery of 17 new Renault Trucks vehicles, making the operator’s fleet now 100% Renault.
Heavy Goods Vehicles
Liverpool-based scaffolding business George Roberts (North West) has taken delivery of three Mercedes-Benz Arocs 8x2 rigids, replacing three 6x2 models after four years’ reliable service.
Rigids
Isle of Man operator Bus Vannin has expanded its workshop capacity with two four-post lifts from Totalkare.
Workshop
Harmful NOx emissions from trucks have halved in the last five years, according to figures from the Department for Transport.
Emissions Control