HELÉNE Mellquist, currently president of Volvo Trucks International, has been named president of Volvo Trucks Europe with effect from 2 April 2019. She succeeds Roger Alm, who was appointed president of Volvo Trucks on 3 […]
DAF TRUCKS and the Transport Association (TA) have together presented a cheque for £10,000 as a donation to transport industry charity Transaid. The significant financial contribution comes after DAF Trucks supplied, free charge, a CF370 […]
INDUSTRY charity Transaid has welcomed three new trustees onto its board of directors in its 20th anniversary year. Joan Aitken OBE, recently retired after 16 years as Traffic Commissioner for Scotland; Alan Hunt, managing director […]
West Lothian based Buchanan Skip Hire has purchased its fifth Volvo truck, an FMX 8×4 rigid equipped with tandem axle lift and a hooklift body. BUCHANAN Skip Hire currently operates a mixed marque fleet of […]
KILMARNOCK based Billy Bowie Special Projects has expanded its tanker fleet with an additional six 44 tonne plated Stralis tractor units, each featuring the company’s distinctive yellow livery and specified with Iveco’s Hi-Way cab. The […]
The Fáilte Group has invested in new rolling stock from MAN Truck & Bus, each fitted with new Carrier Transicold temperature control units. Kevin Swallow talks to the company’s boss Jim Cummiskey about investment and […]
Nothing encourages demand more than being told you can’t have it, so five years after its launch operator requests led to the first Renault Range T High with a flat floor and the steering wheel […]
ACCORDING to RTITB many lorry drivers in the food and drink retail and logistics sectors are missing out on appropriate Driver CPC training. ‘As an employer, delivering generic Driver CPC modules from a training provider […]
SINCE 5 March 2018, DVSA has been handing out fines for drivers’ hours offences committed within the previous 28 days and to mark the first anniversary Transport News asks what effect it’s had. DVSA enforcement […]
REACTING to the announcement that Highways England is to lead a £300,000 study into major improvements to road links between the M65 in east Lancashire and parts of Yorkshire, Malcolm Bingham at FTA commented: ‘We […]
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