VOLVO Trucks will introduce all-electric truck demonstrators in California next year and start selling them in North America from 2020. The California Air Resources Board (CARB) has preliminarily awarded $44.8 million (£34.3m) to the Volvo […]
HERIOT-WATT University and energy systems company Flexible Power Systems (FPS) have been awarded two government grants to explore how vehicle technologies could evolve to reduce emissions in the commercial and freight sector. The first project […]
RENAULT TRUCKS is continuing its research into improving the energy efficiency of diesel trucks with Optifuel Lab 3, the laboratory vehicle developed as part of the FALCON collaborative project. Optifuel Lab 3 combines technologies relating […]
ON-ROAD load handling equipment provider Hiab has strengthened its sales and service network in the UK by acquiring Londonderry Garage (SE) Ltd, which was previously its authorised dealer in the Yorkshire/North East region of the […]
A LORRY driver who was caught smuggling millions of cigarettes into the UK has been jailed for two years and 10 months after an investigation by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC). Border Force officers stopped […]
AS PART of an ongoing commitment to improve safety, BOC, the largest supplier of industrial gases and medical gases in the UK, is to fit its entire bulk tractor and trailer fleet with Michelin’s Effitrailer […]
THE REVERSING and warning alarms market has apparently seen an influx of imitation products that aim to replicate Brigade’s bbs-tek. Operators should be aware that these products do not hold the same accreditations, service support […]
THE RHA has welcomed the Prime Minister’s announcement that fuel duty is to be frozen for another year. Commenting, chief executive Richard Burnett said: ‘As a founding member and funder of campaigning group FairFuelUK, I […]
TRANSPORT and logistics recruitment specialists, Driver Hire, have welcomed the recent government confirmation that, ‘deal or no-deal Brexit’, CPC training is here to stay. The announcement came in guidance notes issued by the Department for […]
THE Apprenticeship Levy is ‘fast becoming a tax’. That’s the warning from Road Haulage Association chief executive, Richard Burnett. Speaking at the RHA’s Autumn Conference Centre in Birmingham he voiced the frustrations hauliers have unlocking […]
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