Compliance management specialist CheckPro will be offering a hands-on demo of its latest software solution at this year’s Commercial Vehicle Show (30 April -2 May) at the NEC Birmingham. The [...]
The rollout of local clean air zones (CAZs) across the country has continued apace in recent weeks, provoking reactions from the road transport sector ranging from optimism to fury – [...]
Fuel card provider Keyfuels has announced that it has completed the acquisition of r2c Online Ltd, the fleet, compliance and workshop management software provider. The terms of the acquisition were [...]
Government to fund research into Euro 6 retrofit kit
Published On: Thursday 28 March 2019
The government has intervened to fund the design of retrofit systems to make older trucks compliant with emissions limits in clean air zones (CAZs). Currently, aftermarket conversion kits are available [...]
Volvo brings turbocompounding back for the long haul
Published On: Tuesday 26 March 2019
Volvo is to reintroduce the mechanical turbocompounding system used on its D12500TC engine back in 2002 to its latest generation of fuel-saving I-Save FH heavy trucks with the D13 Euro [...]
Operators interested in alternative fuels but wary of investing capital in non-diesel vehicles at this juncture are being targeted by Dawsongroup, which has a range of gas and electric options. [...]
Graham Thomas, fleet services manager at Ocado, took delegates at the Bath Clean Air Roadshow through the on-line grocery retailer’s experiences with gas trucks. Gas tractor units were now comparable [...]
Traton subsidiary MAN will launch its new D15 truck engine at the Commercial Vehicle Show (30 April – 2 May), which it is attending for the third year running. MAN [...]
DVSA windfall ‘should be ploughed into road safety’
Published On: Friday 22 March 2019
The Freight Transport Association (FTA) has warned that the £3 million windfall collected by the DVSA from drivers’ hours law infringers thanks to beefed-up enforcement powers should not “disappear into [...]
