Last year’s European dealer of the year for DAF, Ford & Slater, speaks to Will Dalrymple about its tight bond with the truck brand and fellow dealers
Finance & Leasing
The 2021 CV Show will be held Tuesday-Thursday 13-15 April in halls 3A, 4 and 5 at the NEC Birmingham, according to CV Show organisers IRTE Services, RHA and SMMT.
CV Show
Brinor International Shipping & Forwarding has taken delivery of four new FH 6x2 tractor units, including one 454bhp FH model with I-Save.
Health & Safety Legislation
Vehicle tracking data, summed up across hundreds of vehicles and thousands of trips and hundreds of thousands of miles can actually reveal quite a lot about how a transport operation works, as Abbey Transport recently discovered. By Will Dalrymple
Driver / People Management
Lucy Radley spoke to two operators who are also founder members of Earned Recognition to find out how this part of the DVSA compliance scheme works
Driver / People Management
The way lockdown has forced office workers to adapt – by staying at home, using virtual tools such as videoconferencing, and juggling the demands of family and the job at the same time – may well change working habits from now on.
Standards & Practices
This page is brought to you by specialist transport law firm Backhouse Jones. Its COVID-19 hub is available via www.is.gd/ifogih
VOSA Testing
Drivers from Forterra Building Products and Boughey Distribution have been named in the Microlise Driver of the Year Awards 2020.
Driver / People Management
Michelin has upgraded its accidental damage guarantee, which covers the majority of its regional and on/off-road ranges.
Tyres & Retreads
Established 40 years ago, L Lynch Plant Hire & Haulage is marking its four decades in business with the purchase of 14 new Thompsons tippers, ten being conventional front-end models with the remaining four as tipper grabs.
Tippers
Hyundai Motor Company has shipped the first 10 units of the Hyundai Xcient Fuel Cell, what it calls the world’s first mass-produced fuel cell heavy-duty truck, to Switzerland.
Alternative Fuels
Renault Trucks and Indra Automobile Recycling of France are carrying out a one-year preliminary study into recycling and reusing truck parts.
Vehicle Parts