Having spent a lifetime career in the truck industry, Lothian DAF dealer principal Jim Hastie retires, coincidentally on the same day the UK leaves Europe. Alistair Vallance reports from pre-Brexit Loanhead… IN ALL honesty, the […]
Loadmac, is now being ‘powered by product innovations’ and has created a new UK sales network. BASED IN Ross on Wye, Loadmac, the only truck mounted forklift manufactured in Britain, is now offering customers 2.5 […]
In last month’s issue of Transport News we focussed on urban deliveries using a 4×2 tractor and short wheelbase trailer. Popular across the European continent, Brits prefer a 6×2 rigid with a rear steer axle […]
THE EVER increasing global requirement to reduce waste and increase recycling processes gains importance year on year, as the 21st century speeds towards the end of its second decade. Road transport plays a key part […]
SHAWBROOK Bank has provided £2.2m in funding to Scottish road haulage firm Monarch Transport Ltd to help support the company’s new owners pursue growth plans following their recent acquisition of the business. Joint managing directors […]
CARTWRIGHT Fleet Services (CFS), with dealers hips based in Glasgow and Leeds, has supplied Hermes with 244 specialist home delivery box vans and 70 tractor units on contract hire, in a ‘one stop shop’ deal […]
VOLVO has delivered its first all-electric vehicles; a refuse truck to the waste and recycling company Renova and a distribution truck to the logistics company DB Schenker and its partner haulier TGM, operating in Sweden. […]
AS PART of the ongoing development of Stena Line’s Irish Sea route network, the Stena Forecaster is transferred from Stena RoRo to Stena Line and has entered service on the Belfast-Liverpool route. ‘This is another […]
STEPHEN Turner has completed the management buyout of the Currie European Transport Group (recently rebranded Currie Solutions). Having been with the business most of his working life, Stephen has achieved the long term ambition of […]
THE ANNUAL Lockerbie Truckstop Vehicle Gathering run by Solway Vehicle Enthusiasts Club will be held on Sunday 28 April. Once known as the ‘Gathering of the Clans’, the event’s major aim is to raise money […]
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