First Glasgow and First Aberdeen have been awarded a combined £18.6m in ScotZEB funding and will deliver 74 new electric vehicles across both cities. In addition, First Bus will invest a further £16.4m to further increase its zero-emission fleet.
Electric Vehicles
TruckEast Norwich is the overall winner of Scania UK’s 2021 depot of the year competition. It is the third time in four years the branch has won this recognition, having also claimed the award in 2018 and 2020.
Dealerships
Delivery company DPD has welcomed Britain's first zero emission zone (ZEZ) pilot, launched in Oxford, saying it will bring long term benefits to the city, its residents and the wider environment.
Electric Vehicles
An early adopter of the new IVECO S-WAY from launch in late 2020, Williams Transport has now taken delivery of its fifth, a special creation to mark its golden anniversary.
Tractor Units
In response to the Department for Transport's announcement of a £150 million funding package for local bus and light rail services, Go-Ahead Group's chief executive, Christian Schreyer, said: “We welcome this funding for local buses, which will allow the industry time to build back passenger numbers. We’ve bounced back well from the Omicron variant, and our buses are carrying about 80% of the number of passengers they had before the pandemic. But working habits have changed, and it will take a...
Bus & Coach
Motor trade organisations have joined forces with the Health and Safety Executive’s (HSE) Working Minds campaign to tackle work-related stress in the motor repair trade.
Driver / People Management
Caledonian Logistics has opted for Mercedes-Benz Actros trucks in rigid and tractor unit form. The Aberdeenshire-based company’s 35 new vehicles are being supplied by local dealer BLS Truck & Van on contract hire from Mercedes-Benz Finance.
Rigids
Cummins Inc is expanding its powertrain platforms, leveraging a range of lower carbon fuel types. Said to be the industry’s first unified, fuel-agnostic engines, these platforms will use engine blocks and core components that share common architectures and will be optimized for different low-carbon fuel types.
Multi-Fuel Engines
ContiConnect 2.0 is a new version of Continental’s proven digital tyre management system that was developed from scratch.
Tyres & Retreads
Freeway Fleet Systems has joined forces with Stratio to bring predictive maintenance technology to the commercial fleet market.
Maintenance
Wilrose Environmental, an operator of commercial waste collection services, purchased its latest low-entry waste collection truck, pre-bodied and ready to work, from supplier Refuse Vehicle Solutions (RVS).
Municipal Vehicles
BH Cecil & Sons, the family-owned international transporter, has taken delivery of a Krone Profi Liner curtainsider specially adapted to accommodate a DAF 3.1m wheelbase tractor with tag axle, thereby keeping within the overall Euro vehicle length limit of 16.5m.
Semi-Trailers