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 […]
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 […]
THE MARINE Accident Investigation Branch is investigating the shift and toppling over of freight vehicles on board the P&O ro-ro passenger ferry European Causeway during heavy weather while on passage from Larne, Northern Ireland, to […]
GRANGEMOUTH based road haulage business, Duncan Adams Ltd, is in administration. Michael Magnay and Clare Boardman of Deloitte, the business advisory firm, have been appointed as administrators to the company which has a fleet of […]
TRANSPORT News has consolidated its presence in the north of England by becoming media partner to Truckfest North West. The annual event, held at Knutsford, will now mirror Truckfest Scotland with a mid-day exhibitor parade […]
Transport managers of companies committed to delivering goods and services into Scotland’s city centres need to know the full extent of LEZ. All will be revealed at Scotland’s Clean Air Roadshow. READERS who are becoming […]
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