Features

Aftermarket: engine tuning pro and con

Peter Shakespeare looks at the questionable practice of aftermarket truck engine re-mapping

Emissions Control
Features

Back to basics

During this difficult time, we as a nation have relied on hundreds of logistics providers to keep supermarkets and pharmacies stocked with provisions.

Road Safety
Features

Predictive maintenance: voice of the customer

Wincanton’s technical services director sees predictive maintenance as being a concept whose time has yet to come. He speaks to Richard Simpson

Maintenance
Features

Predictive maintenance: future gazing

Seven years ago Volvo took its first tentative steps towards predicting when a truck component might fail. Today, thanks to the data that it is collecting from ‘connected trucks,’ Volvo is boosting its customers’ uptime, writes Brian Weatherley

Maintenance
Features

VECTO and the future of CV fuel efficiency

European emissions rules require OEMs to boil down tractor performance into a single metric: its CO2 production. Steve Banner outlines the system and considers what operators can learn from it

Emissions Control
Features

Legal update: May 2020

This page is brought to you by specialist transport law firm Backhouse Jones

Driver / People Management
Features

Traffic commissioners: the potential of videoconferencing for enforcement proceedings

Before COVID-19 hit, the office of the traffic commissioner was considering using videoconferencing for some of its proceedings. The Coronavirus pandemic has brought home the utility of such tools for all kinds of business communications

Road Legal
News

First four LNG tractors for haulier improving its eco-credentials

A logistics company has added four eco-friendly vehicles to its fleet as it continues to ‘invest in the future’.

Alternative Fuels
News

DAF introduces switchable all-wheel drive option

This new ‘PXP’ drive has been developed together with German commercial vehicle converter Paul Nutzfahrzeuge. It will be available on the DAF CF and XF 4x2 tractors powered by the PACCAR MX-11 or MX-13 engine. Other chassis types will follow later in the year.

Drivelines
News

Don-Bur invents lifting-deck trailer with adapting-height roof

For the first time, Don-Bur has manufactured a lifting deck tri-axle trailer design with an expanding roof.

Aerodynamics
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UK service partners of Schmitz Cargobull to offer rigid truck bodybuilding

Schmitz Cargobull is extending assembly of its rigid truck bodies in the UK through its national service partner network.

Rigids
Features

‘Put in temporary measures’ – Rygor

Paul Reed, owner director of Mercedes-Benz dealer Rygor Commercials, speaks about the importance of keeping all vehicles roadworthy and legal during the COVID-19 outbreak.

Maintenance