National Highways is lending a Mobile Tyre Safety Station to operators of major fleets that is said to inspect up to 1,000 vehicles a day.
Tyres & Retreads
You can’t become a transport manager without putting in the hours on the necessary training. But the content of the CPC qualification divides opinion: John Challen finds out why
Transport CPC
Jodi Wesman doesn’t fit the mould as the standard bus engineering apprentice, but the 39-year-old couldn’t be happier about her placement as a first-year Level 3 mechelec at Plymouth Citybus (part of the Go-Ahead Group), as she tells Will Dalrymple
Bus & Coach
Centrad managing director Geoff Cross has urged UK fleet operators to adopt CCTV cameras and telematics technology to deter vehicle crime and fuel theft.
Telematics
Cheshire haulage business 3D Trans is using five Scania R500 6x4 tractor units from Asset Alliance Group to predominantly move containers to and from UK ports.
Tractor Units
Prometeon Tyre Group has named Ali Yilmaz managing director (MD) for the UK, Ireland and Nordics, replacing interim MD Francesco Antonacci.
Tyres & Retreads
Tevva has secured European Community Whole Vehicle Type Approval for its 7.5 tonne (t) battery-electric truck, which it can now sell across the UK and Europe.
Truck Efficiency
Skip wagons based on 3.5-tonne chassis have a number of advantages. They are comparatively cheap to acquire, manoeuvrable in congested urban streets, less obtrusive than a truck, easy to park on a domestic drive and can be driven by anybody with a car driver’s licence, reports Steve Banner
Light Commercial Vehicles
After four years, the biggest European commercial vehicle event returns to Hanover fairground in September. A number of high-profile launches are expected, but how soon they will reach the right-hand drive UK market is another question entirely. Below are selected early exhibitor highlights
Truck Efficiency
Birmingham-based Uptons Transport Services has replaced its semi-trailer with a S.CS Fixed Roof curtainsider from Schmitz Cargobull that will clock up 160,000km per annum.
Semi-Trailers
Highway service provider Ringway Jacobs has been using a solution that combines the Peoplesafe Pro lone worker app with SureCam video telematics.
Telematics
Oil and lubricants company Rowe has launched its sustainably manufactured product range in the UK at the Autosport International Show in Birmingham.
Lubricants & Systems