• Shell fuels efficiency boost for Wellocks

    Published On: Tuesday 22 November 2016

    Food supplier Wellocks has teamed up with Shell in a bid to boost its brand profile and reduce fleet costs through improved fuel efficiency. Wellocks has been supplying premium ingredients [...]

  • Brigade camera monitoring systems can replace Class V/VI mirrors

    Published On: Tuesday 22 November 2016

    Brigade Electronics has announced that it has achieved R46 compliance for several of its camera monitoring systems, inlcuding the Backeye360 Select system – meaning they can be used in place [...]

  • DfT publishes HGV speed limit increase evaluation

    Published On: Monday 14 November 2016

    The Department for Transport (DfT) has released its first-year evaluation of the impact of HGV speed limit increases in England and Wales, which took effect in April last year. The [...]

  • ECCO Safety Group launches XT ‘Slim’ Series

    Published On: Monday 14 November 2016

    Vehicle safety systems specialist ECCO Safety Group has announced the launch of its nnew Code 3 (Premier Hazard) branded ‘slim-line’ versions of the XT Slim Series of hazard warning directional [...]

  • Hydrodec/OSS Group rebrands for Slicker future

    Published On: Thursday 10 November 2016

    Commercial vehicle workshop waste and oil recycling specialist Hydrodec UK, also known as OSS Group, has been rebranded as Slicker Recycling, following its acquisition by entrepreneur Andrew Black, founder of [...]

  • Wincanton retains Carbon Trust Standard

    Published On: Wednesday 9 November 2016

    Logistics giant Wincanton has announced that it has retained the Carbon Trust Standard, with the latest award remaining valid until March 2018. The company has been a Standard bearer since [...]

  • Truckers ‘driven to despair’ by DVLA medical failings

    Published On: Monday 7 November 2016

    The Driver & Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) has been slammed by the Parliamentary & Health Service Ombudsman (PHSO), Dame Julie Mellor, for letting down truck drivers who have had licences [...]

  • Driver wages rise to counter skills shortage

    Published On: Monday 7 November 2016

    The supply of truck drivers to the UK transport industry is improving thanks to higher wages, but questions are being raised by the Freight Transport Association and others about the [...]

  • Change afoot as hauliers steel themselves for Brexit

    Published On: Saturday 5 November 2016

    Even though the Brexit process has hardly started, hauliers are already experiencing changes both positive and negative as a result of the June vote for the UK to leave the [...]