• Tyre handling technology from Tecalemit

    Published On: Thursday 13 January 2022

    Tecalemit Garage Equipment provides a range of specialist commercial vehicle tyre handling tools to enable workshops to handle the demands of large, heavy wheel and tyre combinations. The Tecalemit range [...]

  • Freeway helps Gregory integrate acquisitions

    Published On: Thursday 13 January 2022

    Gregory Distribution has been working closely with Freeway Fleet Systems to help streamline its engineering operations through automating processes to improve efficiency and productivity. The system is underpinning a switch [...]

  • Abbey takes the Freeway to improved fleet maintenance

    Published On: Thursday 13 January 2022

    Abbey Logistics is rolling out a new fleet maintenance system supplied by Freeway Fleet Systems across its four workshop locations, to help improve vehicle reliability and utilisation. Engineers and technicians [...]

  • Haldex boosts safety with TPMS tech

    Published On: Wednesday 12 January 2022

    Trailer technology provider Haldex’s portfolio includes a tyre pressure monitoring system (TPMS), which constantly measures the temperature as well as the air pressure of each individual tyre. The system, which [...]

  • CNG Fuels opens HGV biomethane station in Scotland

    Published On: Friday 17 December 2021

    CNG Fuels has opened Scotland’s first public access biomethane refuelling station, which it says will help meet a growing demand from major UK brands to decarbonise haulage emissions and save [...]

  • Government-funded bootcamp scheme kicks off

    Published On: Friday 17 December 2021

    The first intensive short courses are now underway in a government-funded scheme to help up to 11,000 people take up careers as HGV drivers. Funded by the Department for Education [...]

  • Q3 figures show driver ‘churn’ still ‘too high’

    Published On: Monday 13 December 2021

    Recruitment specialist Driver Require has provided further insight into the UK’s HGV driver shortage following analysis of figures from the Office of National Statistics (ONS), suggesting that almost 30,000 drivers [...]

  • Logistics platform warns of road freight price rise

    Published On: Monday 6 December 2021

    While road freight price-per-mile levels stabilised in October and November, a December spike could impact both retail and consumer choice this Christmas, according to Lyall Cresswell, CEO of online logistics [...]

  • Industry responds to zero-emission HGV plans

    Published On: Wednesday 24 November 2021

    Transport trade groups have called for key caveats and derogations from the government’s recent commitment to the phasing out of non-zero-emission HGVs, which they say will be vital to the [...]