Malcolm Logistics has approved Harsh electric sheeting for its walking floor trailers, making Harsh the preferred sheeting system supplier for the group’s entire fleet.
Trailer Equipment
All-makes truck and trailer parts business TRP has announced it can now supply remanufactured brake calipers for DAF Trucks’ LF rigid range.
Vehicle Parts
Manchester-based recovery operator iRescue24 has taken delivery of three new MAN TGL 12.250 crew cab trucks with slidebed recovery bodies, designed and built by MV Commercial.
Bodies & Bodywork
Transport managers can now sign licensing applications digitally, using the gov.uk Verify service (see link below).
Transport CPC
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Social / Corporate Responsibility
Law firm Edwin Coe has filed a group action seeking damages for businesses affected by fraudulent price fixing by major truck manufacturers over a 14-year period.
Heavy Goods Vehicles
Glastonbury-based Sparks Transport has added another 20 curtainsider trailers from Cartwright to its fleet, citing the trailer maker’s ability to provide the best “total-cost-of-operation solution”.
Trailers
The McBurney Transport Group is managing its 1,400-strong truck and trailer fleet with software from Freeway Fleet Systems, and is able to control every aspect of fleet maintenance from a single interface.
Fleet Management Systems
Hexagon Composites has signed an agreement to acquire the remaining 50% of Agility Fuel Solutions.
Alternative Fuels
New chilled and ambient logistics provider Romac Logistics has set up a mixed fleet of new and used trucks and trailers, with support from Asset Alliance Group.
Finance & Leasing
Bus operator Lothian has taken delivery of the first of a 42-vehicle order from Alexander Dennis (ADL) for the 100-seater Enviro400XLB three-axle double-decker.
Bus & Coach
Luton-based start-up company Blue Bus Innovations is taking delivery of three IVECO Daily Line Hi-Matic vehicles powered by compressed natural gas (CNG), making the operator the first in the UK to run CNG minibuses.
Alternative Fuels