Wincanton has invested in 360-degree cameras and telematics technology for its home delivery fleet, which serves major customers such as Marks & Spencer.
Driver / People Management
The Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency has published an update on its digital strategy for commercial vehicle services, including testing of HGVs and trailers, and for ATF operators.
Road Tests
MAN Truck & Bus has unveiled its first new truck generation for 20 years, promising new levels of comfort, safety, efficiency, reliability and service, as well as connectivity and digitalisation.
Heavy Goods Vehicles
Gritting business AA Salt is reporting “substantial” productivity gains since a cloud-based mobile workforce and vehicle tracking system from BigChange.
Fleet Management Systems
Shipping and logistics business DFDS has taken delivery of three new trailers equipped with Carrier Transicold’s VE HE 19 refrigeration units.
Temperature Controlled Vehicles
Parcel delivery business DPD has ordered 100 eTGE 3.5-tonne electric vans from MAN Truck & Bus UK.
Electric Vehicles
VSE demonstrates rear steering and crab steering in an articulated tractor-trailer combination thanks to electro-hydraulic steering mechanisms on both axles of an animal transport semi-trailer.
Axles
Pembrokeshire-based haulier Mansel Davies and Son has been fined £380,000 with £120,000 costs for forging vehicle maintenance records.
Maintenance
Goole-based operator Drury Coaches has taken delivery of its first Irizar coach, an i6 Integral, which is also the first vehicle on the five-strong fleet to have a DAF engine.
Bus & Coach
Carlsberg Group has ordered 20 all-electric Renault D Wide ZE trucks for its Swiss subsidiary the Feldschlösschen brewery.
Electric Vehicles
Timber and builders’ merchant Sydenhams has taken delivery of a DAF XF tractor to go into service on a supply link in the South West, following its recent acquisition of a new branch in Glastonbury.
Tractor Units
Haulage firm John Mackirdy of Rothesay, Isle of Bute, is reporting positive performance with its new Volvo FM rigid, which went into service in October on animal feed deliveries.
Rigids