Truck service provider Tip Group is launching an academy in the UK, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany and the Netherlands to educate trailer mechanics.
Continuing Professional Development
Scania has reshaped its bus and coach business in a move that entails a more focused product portfolio and roadmap ahead.
Bus & Coach
Andover Trailers has provided FM Conway with two step frame trailers that are 15100mm and two more that are 13900, both of which have 1600mm front overhangs.
Trailers
Johnsons Coaches has invested in a mirrorless i8 to serve its Luxury Traveller programme, which includes stays at four-star hotels.
Bus & Coach
Econ Engineering has launched an electric gritter truck with a range of demountable body options, which allow it to switch between fleet roles while ensuring zero-tailpipe emissions.
Truck Efficiency
Daimler Truck subsidiary Fuso has started producing its next generation eCanter at its plant in Tramagal, Portugal, which comes with more wheelbase options.
Truck Efficiency
Bridgestone has made a million-pound investment that will see it manufacture more hot-cure products within its retread tyre offering at its factory in Bourne, Lincolnshire.
Tyres & Retreads
Two transport companies have been fined a combined total of £2.2 million after a worker was killed when he was hit by a heavy goods vehicle (HGV) in Birmingham.
Road Safety
Rockwell Automation showcased solutions aimed at improving productivity for the packaging industry at Interpack 2023 in Düsseldorf, Germany.
Maintenance
Military logistics vehicles, the ‘Tonka Toys’ of the truck world, vary enormously. Peter Shakespeare reports on the US Army’s aim to take a single marque off-the-shelf approach to design and procurement in the future
Military Vehicles
London-based drinks supplier The Drinks Club is using an electric Mercedes-Benz heavy truck to make deliveries to venues such as The Ritz and Hoxton Hotels.
Truck Efficiency
Scania has expanded its G25CM and G33CM range of automated gearboxes with the addition G25CH and G33CH, which come with a sturdier planetary gear.