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 | Imex Extends Opening Hours IMEX has introduced extended opening hours. The replacement parts specialist is now open each week day from 8.00am to 6.00pm to provide customers with a more flexible ordering facility and longer... Read More |
 | FMX Takes The Spoils Volvo’s robust FMX range powers to the podium and collects Transport News’ Top Truck Award for 2012. Back last spring a 410hp FMX excelled in our appraisal on the roads of Dumfries and... Read More |
| Swedes Slow Down Truck Production SCANIA foresees a continued slowdown in demand in various markets and has now lowered the production rate at its factories in Europe and Latin America. This adjustment will be handled within the... Read More |
| Longer Trailer Choice A Poisoned Chalice? THE Department for Transport has agreed to allow a ten year trial on increased length semi-trailers. The trial will see 900 trailers run at an increased length of 2.05 metres over the... Read More |
| Fuel Prices Push Costs Above Inflation THE HIGH cost of fuel remains the biggest cause for concern amongst haulage operators, who are continuing to be squeezed by rising operating costs and pressure for earlier payment terms from... Read More |
 | Riverside Truck Rental Open At Bellshill ONE OF Britain’s biggest municipal truck rental companies has opened its first Scottish base. Riverside Truck Rental Ltd (RTR) specialise not only in contract and spot hire of CVs, but... Read More |
| Red Tape Relaxation Requires Safeguards – FTA AMONG a diverse package of measures to save industry time and money, the government’s Red Tape Review will bring some notable and common sense changes to regulations affecting the road transport... Read More |
 | EU Policies Revealed At IATP Conference NOVEMBER’S International Association of Transport Professionals (IATP) Conference held in Aviemore had as its theme, ‘Scotland’s Transport Future in a Changing World’, which looked at all aspects... Read More |
 | Allison Boxing Clever The writing is on the wall for manual transmissions in commercial vehicles, as automation takes control of gear shifting. But the traditional ‘slush-box’ pure automatic with a fluid coupling is... Read More |
 | The Odd Couple Truck makers spend mountains of cash making their products sleek and slippery to reduce drag and save us money. Do you hitch yours to a scruffy old trailer with flapping curtains and waste all... Read More |
 | Fined For Failure To Declare Dangerous Goods ON 19 February 2008, Stranraer police were alerted to an unaccompanied freight trailer which had been off loaded from the Larne to Stranraer ferry. The officers noticed that the trailer was giving... Read More |