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17/01/2024
Equipmake has doubled its fleet repowering agreement with Big Bus Tours to include a fleet of 20 vehicles.
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16/01/2024
London-based technology company Y3K has claimed that its affordable Smart-I range makes video telematics and tracking accessible to businesses of all sizes.
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15/01/2024
?Yorkshire-based Brian Whincup and Sons has received three curtainsider trailers from Krone, enabling it to operate to maximum load capacity within vehicle height and length regulations.
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12/01/2024
Asset Alliance Group has launched a new bus and coach rental offering to support the specific needs of UK operators.
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11/01/2024
Microlise Group has strengthened its transport management system (TMS) offering with the acquisition of Enterprise Software Systems (ESSL).
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10/01/2024
MGT Suffolk has upgraded its workshop near Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, with two sets of Stertil-Koni heavy duty wireless column vehicle lifts.
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09/01/2024
The IRTE Skills Challenge is set to welcome the next generation of public service vehicle (PSV) engineers and technicians for its 12th anniversary.
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09/01/2024
Poole-based i247 Group has reported that it is seeing an increase in light commercial vehicles vans with under two millimetres of tyre tread depth.
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08/01/2024
Cheshire-based Kinaxia Logistics has received 205 new curtainsiders from Tiger Trailers as part of an investment of more than £6 million this year.
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08/01/2024
Alexander Dennis has supplied two 8.9 metre long Enviro200 midibuses to Lakeside Coaches of Ellesmere.
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05/01/2024
Aggregate Industries has expanded its vehicle fleet after welcoming another electric readymix concrete truck as part of its journey to net zero.
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05/01/2024
Fruehauf has appointed Gary Hunt as business development manager, who will play a role in the company’s expansion plans for 2024.
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04/01/2024
Cheshire-based Brit European has extended an agreement with Prometeon, covering a fleet of 162 tractor units and rigids, 201 trailers and a mix of cars and vans.
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04/01/2024
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Claire Haigh is to lead the Zemo Partnership following the departure of Andy Eastlake, who has stepped down after more than a decade of leadership.
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03/01/2024
Work is underway to transform the First Bus depot in Oldham, Manchester, with the introduction of the next phase of electrification.
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03/01/2024
Renault Trucks is now assembling the Renault Trucks E-Tech T and C at its plant in Bourg-en-Bresse, France.
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02/01/2024
Scania has announced that Glasgow-based day shift supervisor Scott McLintock has been named 2024 Scottish Irtec Technician of the Year.
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21/12/2023
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Bridgestone has incorporated Enliten technologies into its new Ecopia long-haul tyre range to help enhance fuel efficiency for fleets and cut operational costs for fleets.
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20/12/2023
Alltruck has supplied a specially modified DAF CF 260 to CN Glass for the distribution of glass and related products.
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19/12/2023
SSE Energy Solutions is to build its first electric charging hub for heavy goods vehicles (HGVs) at Tyseley Energy Park (TEP) in Birmingham.
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18/12/2023
Ah Vrij has commissioned a Mercedes-Benz Actros with an excavator body and railway undercarriage for the maintenance of railway lines in the Netherlands and Belgium.
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15/12/2023
Asset Alliance Group has opened a new site at Trafford Park in Manchester, which has become the main base for its asset management division.
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13/12/2023
PSP UK, a supplier of suction excavators, is to expand its range of construction equipment with the addition of Amphitec vacuum trucks and Brock sweepers.
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12/12/2023
Tyre manufacturer Hankook is to add a truck bus radial production line at its Rácalmás plant in Hungary as part of an investment of approximately €540 million.
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11/12/2023
Belgian industrial entrepreneur Guido Dumarey has acquired the Woodall Nicholson businesses of Coleman Milne, VCS Police, Mellor Bus, Treka Bus, Promech, and JM Engineering.
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