UK discount retailer Home Bargains has chosen Access XL to supply a mixture of column and multi-deck tail lifts for work on multi-drop deliveries to over 500 Home Bargains stores throughout the UK.
Tail Lifts
Renault Trucks UK and Ireland has announced the further expansion of its dealer network.
Workshop
Essex-based earth-moving, aggregates and recycling firm G&B Finch celebrates their 50th year in business with a bespoke bonneted 150t GVW Strator X-WAY heavy-haulage tractor unit.
Vehicle Specification
D.A. MacDonald has taken delivery of its first Andover Trailers tri-axle step frame.
Trailers
Marshall Fleet Solutions (MFS) has been awarded the Thermo King Blue Track Select Dealer Accreditation for 2021 by Thermo King Europe.
Temperature Controlled Vehicles
An engineering apprentice employed at a North Yorkshire gritter manufacturer has described his job as ‘the best in the world’.
Apprenticeships
Northampton is home to a brand-new commercial vehicle accident repair centre, opened this week by C&C Vehicle Services to support a surge in demand for workshop capacity – fuelled by the booming home delivery market and increasing numbers of vans on UK roads.
Workshop
TyreWatch has installed a JOSAM Cam-aligner wheel alignment system to diagnose and correct misaligned vehicles.
Tyres & Retreads
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Driver CPC
Managing a 24/7 business where the work is continuous, I have to best utilise a finite team of technicians. It’s not like a dealership, where you book in at 8am, and the customer collects at 5:30pm. For me, productivity is paramount.
Diagnostic Equipment
Low height tractor units may be a niche market, but they most definitely have their place for those operators who need to extract the maximum possible volume out of vehicles going to mainland Europe, where they are restricted by the 4m maximum height limit for international transport. Lucy Radley examines the options
Suspensions
The independent third-party assessment scheme reassures heavy vehicle operators that workshop technicians are competent to fix their vehicles. But as licences only last for five years, operators need to make sure that technicians reaccredit in time, writes Will Dalrymple
Irtec