IVECO has announced a deal with BNP Paribas Leasing Solutions to provide “preferential” financing for the truck maker’s Natural Power vehicles.
Alternative Fuels
DAF Trucks has launched its second DAF Transport Efficiency Driver Challenge, following the inaugural event two years ago.
Driver / People Management
Fraserburgh-based Gray & Adams has announced pre-tax profits of almost £10 million for the last financial year.
Temperature Controlled Vehicles
Operators are reminded that, from Monday 5 March, DVSA traffic examiners will be issuing on-the-spot fines for any drivers’ hours offences committed in the last 28 days.
Driver / People Management
Mercedes-Benz Vans has unveiled its third-generation Sprinter, available to order now with delivery from June.
Light Commercial Vehicles
Engine manufacturer Cummins has announced the acquisition of Johnson Matthey’s UK automotive battery systems business, which makes high-voltage automotive grade battery systems for electric and hybrid vehicles.
Electric Vehicles
Renault Trucks is expanding its range of right-hand drive Range T High vehicles with an extended range of options.
Tractor Units
Go-Ahead London has put a fleet of BYD-ADL electric buses into operation in the City of London, making this the fourth bus route in the capital to go fully electric.
Electric Vehicles
Volvo Trucks says it welcomes the requirements from 1 January 2019 for new heavy-duty trucks to come with a declaration of fuel consumption and CO2 emissions.
Standards & Practices
Telematics provider Airmax Remote has unveiled the results of research conducted over twelve months in 2017, highlighting fuel savings from mpg monitoring.
Fleet Management Systems
Steel haulage firm Middlebrook Transport says it is saving 60 hours a month with r2c Online’s fleet and workshop management software – and the system has underpinned the operator’s latest achievement of FORS Gold status.
Fleet Management Systems
Family-owned Towens Group of Weston-Super-Mare, Somerset, has recently celebrated its 25th anniversary, which coincided with the delivery of a new Volvo FH-540 6x4 tractor unit that will operate with a large capacity walking floor trailer as part of the waste recycling division.
Tractor Units