News

New electric winch for loading HGVs

Hoist & Winch supplied an electric-powered winch to a UK building products company that is allowing the safe loading of heavy goods vehicles (HGV).

Loading/Unloading Equipment
News

HVS celebrates hydrogen truck trailer

A Hydrogen Vehicle Systems (HVS) test vehicle has delivered its first trailer pull on a test track at UTAC, Milbrook.

Truck Efficiency
News

Bacton Transport receives Scania trucks

Haulage company Bacton Transport has received 11 new Scania Trucks that will be based out of its head office in Woolpit, Suffolk.

Truck Efficiency
News

LTS Global deploys electric truck

LTS Global Solutions is using an electric truck within a 50 miles radius of its 130,000 sq. ft site in Coleshill, Warwickshire.

Truck Efficiency
News

New trucks help Bako cut fleet emissions

Bakery wholesaler Bako has received 24 rigid trucks, mounted with a combination of Carrier Transicold Supra 1150 MT (multi-temperature) systems and engineless Iceland 11 MT units.

Truck Efficiency
Features

New IVECO range

IVECO engineers have been busily working away at refreshing the company’s range for 2024. Lucy Radley runs the rule over the new vehicle and engine line-up

Truck Efficiency
Features

Transfer Window

Amid the evolving regulatory landscape, the humble power take-off has found itself repurposed as a way of reducing truck emissions. Richard Simpson investigates

Truck Efficiency
Features

Comment: Normal service is resumed

There was a time during the COVID-19 pandemic when I’m sure some people believed that they would never shake hands with another human being again, or attend any sort of mass-gathering. The ‘new normal’ was being touted as just that – a way of life that was alien to what had gone before it a few short months before.

Truck Efficiency
Features

Charging for electric buses

Getting sufficient power from the grid to charge a fleet of electric buses requires connected thinking. By Richard Simpson

Electric Vehicles
Features

CV Show preview 2024

New technology and seminars focusing on decarbonisation are among the key takeaways at this year’s Commercial Vehicle Show, 23-25 April. Ben Spencer picks out some other highlights in the halls

Fleet Management Systems
Training

IRTE Skills Challenge: Bigger and better

Excitement is building ahead of the next edition of the IRTE Bus & Coach Skills Challenge, taking place in June 2024 in Bristol. John Challen looks at what’s new this year and why operators should pay attention to the competition

Continuing Professional Development
Features

Legal update

The Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) has announced that now that digital MOT certificates are available, from 29 April 2024 it is going to stop printing MOT pass certificates at the time of the test.

Road Legal