• Sapphire adopts new curtain printing tech

    Published On: Monday 20 February 2023

    Sapphire Curtains and Graphics, part of the Don-Bur group, has invested £750,000 in a new EFI Vutek Q3r UV LED Printer, which the company says has improved efficiency and increased [...]

  • Cummins test-drives new ePowertrain at Millbrook

    Published On: Friday 17 February 2023

    A new electric powertrain for heavy-duty vehicles is undergoing track testing at Millbrook Proving Ground in Bedfordshire. The 17Xe ePowertrain, developed by Meritor (now part of Cummins) with Advanced Propulsion Centre consortium [...]

  • Brake monitoring on the move with BPW

    Published On: Friday 17 February 2023

    Trailer technology specialist BPW has outlined the workings of its electronic brake performance monitoring (EBPM) system, typically incorporated as standard in its idem telematics package. The system has been designed [...]

  • Gardner Denver adds pneumatic value for Van der Lee

    Published On: Thursday 9 February 2023

    Dutch transport and logistics provider Van der Lee has been benefiting from a succession of pneumatic solutions from equipment provider Gardner Denver to aid tanker loading and unloading. Van der [...]

  • VisionTrack unveils AI video analysis solution

    Published On: Tuesday 7 February 2023

    Video telematics specialist VisionTrack has announced the launch of an AI-powered post-analysis solution – NARA (Notification, Analysis and Risk Assessment) – which it says will revolutionise how vehicle camera footage [...]

  • DfT to boost weight limits for greener vehicles

    Published On: Friday 3 February 2023

    The Department for Transport has outlined forthcoming changes in the law that will increase the authorised weight limits for certain zero emission vehicles (ZEVs) and alternatively fuelled vehicles (AFVs), in [...]

  • HVS and Asda in self-driving hydrogen hook-up

    Published On: Thursday 2 February 2023

    Hydrogen Vehicle Systems (HVS), a new Glasgow-based OEM specialising in hydrogen-powered commercial vehicles, is heading up a consortium that has been awarded a £6.6 million tranche of government funding to [...]

  • bp pulse builds e-truck charging corridor

    Published On: Wednesday 1 February 2023

    bp pulse, the electric charging division of bp, has announced its first ‘charging corridor’ for medium and heavy-duty electric trucks (e-trucks) in Europe. Six public charging locations with ultra-fast 300kw [...]

  • Trade groups call for fuel duty action in Spring Budget

    Published On: Wednesday 1 February 2023

    The Road Haulage Association (RHA) welcomed press reports in late January suggesting that the chancellor Jeremy Hunt may be planning to extend the current five pence per litre fuel duty [...]