More hauliers are seeing the benefit of whole-life tyre management to reduce the financial outlay and cut CO2 emissions. Steve Banner reports from Michelin’s factory in Staffordshire. THE PALNACKIE, Castle Douglas based haulier TP Niven […]
With an established tipper fleet of his own, Lochmaben Transport’s Stevie Walker spent a week in a new DAF XDC eight-wheeler. JULY 2006 marked the end of an era for the tipper industry as Foden […]
DALKEITH based NWH Group has struck up a partnership with Volvo to trial the manufacturer’s FE electric HGV skip vehicle. Ricky Ray, compliance director at NWH Group explained: “The group is committed to driving the […]
LEITHS (Scotland) Ltd has added two new C430 8×4 tippers to its Inverness based subsidiary, A Ross & Sons, opting for Renault Trucks owing to the ‘manufacturer’s dealer network, vehicle specification and reliability’. Supplied by […]
BULLET Express, one of the UK’s fastest growing supply chain businesses, has introduced a Movement Guarantee service for the beers, wines and spirits sector. The guarantee provides clearance and documentation expertise as well as direct […]
Moving to 100% electric is still not feasible for many operators with cost, range and payload anxiety, but might a retrofit hybrid be the answer, reports John Kendall. DECARBONISING road transport remains a challenge at […]
Many hauliers are family businesses and Earl Transport is no different. Peter Hughes and his daughter Rhian talk to Lucy Radley about bringing on the next generation and the succession plan. AS JOURNALISTS, we spend […]
DAF TRUCKS is ‘right behind’ the announcement of funding from the UK Government and Innovate UK for the Zero Emission HGV and Infrastructure Demonstrator programme. DAF XD Electric and XF Electric tractor units will form […]
SCOTLAND’S trunk roads will be serviced by a fully refreshed fleet of gritters this winter. With new network management contracts in place for the north west and north east units, it means the entire gritter […]
TRANSPORT Minister Mark Harper was shown the JCB Pothole Pro during a visit to the company’s Derbyshire engine plant and saw how the machine repairs a pothole in less than eight minutes – four times […]
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