Lancashire-based Solomon Commercials has opened its seventh new factory to enhance existing capacity levels and meet rising demand in production.
Temperature Controlled Vehicles
In mid-December 2021, Dhollandia, the Belgium-based manufacturer of tail-lifts, ramps and passenger lifts, concluded a deal to purchase a factory in the UK, where it plans to manufacture, assemble and distribute its range of column lifts for light commercial vehicles.
Tail Lifts
Three new New Generation MAN Trucks join the H Walton Ltd of Old Goole specialist corn and animal feed merchants fleet.
Rigids
Waste management specialist Collard Group is now using Truckfile packages to keep its fleet of 140 trucks and 110 vans safe and compliant, and to ensure the smooth and efficient operation of its three in-house maintenance sites – which are soon to be joined by a fourth.
Workshop Management Systems
Goodyear has unveiled the results of its first Sustainable Reality Survey, an investigation into what action truck fleets and transport companies are taking to reduce their carbon footprint, as well as the sustainability plans they have in place and the obstacles that are standing in their way.
Tyres & Retreads
Gregory Distribution is extending the use of bio-LNG (liquified natural gas) into its milk transhipment operation, with the arrival of 12 new Volvo FM Globetrotter LNG 6x2 tractor units for its Cullompton, Devon base – each expected to clock-up 200,000 km per year for the next five years.
Alternative Fuels
MAN Truck & Bus has started the groundworks for a new brownfield facility in Stockton-on-Tees. Development and building works have now commenced next door to the existing site, which remains operational, with the newly planned facility opening its doors in August 2022.
Workshop
One of East Anglia’s busiest coach operators has increased its in-house maintenance capabilities by investing in mobile brake testing equipment from Totalkare.
Bus & Coach
Bristol-based Jam Inns Ice, commercial and catering ice supplier to the South West and South Wales, has taken delivery of a bespoke vehicle box body by Paneltex.
Temperature Controlled Vehicles
With ongoing disruption to normal business routines being caused by both COVID and Brexit, tipper and loader bodybuilder HARSH nonetheless used 2021 to make major investments into its headquarters’ facilities. The aim has been to not only to boost its factory efficiency and throughput but also to help enhance its aftersales support to customers.
Workshop
The Go-Ahead Group hired 1,030 apprentices across its bus and rail operations during 2021. The figure includes bus drivers and engineering apprentices in Newcastle, Hull and London, and customer service apprenticeships at Govia Thameslink Railway.
Apprenticeships
Tesco claims to be launching the UK’s first commercially-used fully electric heavy freight articulated trucks. Two new 37-tonne DAF electric vehicles will transport food and other products from Wentloog rail terminal outside Cardiff to Tesco’s distribution centre in Magor, Wales, in partnership with logistics and international freight forwarding company FSEW.
Electric Vehicles