Wheely-Safe is making its intelligent tyre pressure monitoring system (TPMS), wheel loss and brake temperature sensing technologies available for connection to commercial vehicle telematics and CAN-Bus for the first time, with a new range of open platform-connected devices available alongside its standalone products.
Tyres & Retreads
Conversion business MAR Cooling Solutions has launched in the UK.
Temperature Controlled Vehicles
Independent Renault Trucks distributor RH Commercial Vehicles has announced plans to open a fifth site, strategically located in north Nottinghamshire.
Dealerships
The corporate parent of emergency services bodybuilder O&H, Venari Group, has brought all aspects of its ambulance production process in-house.
Emergency Service Vehicles
Proposed changes to heavy goods vehicle and bus and coach apprenticeships in Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales are now out for consultation. See links below to participate; the closing date is mid-February.
Apprenticeships
A new 19-tonne fully-electric distribution truck for urban applications will enter production at Leyland Trucks in the UK in May.
Electric Vehicles
After 12 years as an Autosmart franchisee operating with second-hand vehicles, Dougie Borland has acquired his first ever brand-new truck, specifying an Isuzu 7.5 tonne rigid fitted with a specialist retail showroom body.
Light Commercial Vehicles
The order book for the Volta Zero, said to be the world’s first purpose-built full electric large commercial vehicle, now stands at over $260 million.
Electric Vehicles
European transport firm Gebrüder Weiss has begun operations with its first hydrogen truck.
Alternative Fuels
On 1 December 2020 Gloucestershire-based Refuse Vehicle Solutions Ltd (RVS) purchased the business of Kent-based HE Municipal Engineering Services and is now the exclusive supplier of MOL VDK refuse vehicles in the UK.
Municipal Vehicles
The world's first fleet of double-decker hydrogen buses officially launched into service in Aberdeen.
Alternative Fuels
City Plumbing has returned to bodybuilder Bevan Group for the first vehicles to wear its new livery.
Tail Lifts