• Premier Pits rolls out new safety cover system

    Published On: Wednesday 20 May 2015

    Workshop equipment supplier Premier Pits has added a new sliding pit safety cover to its product portfolio. The ASP System is said to be a fast and secure means of [...]

  • DAF backs logistics skills initiative

    Published On: Wednesday 20 May 2015

    An industry-led initiative to encourage young people to consider logistics as a career has won ‘substantial’ financial backing for the next three years from DAF Trucks, Britain’s leading truck manufacturer. [...]

  • McLaren-Honda truck team embarks on ExxonMobil efficiency challenge

    Published On: Thursday 14 May 2015

    Formula 1 racing team McLaren-Honda has teamed up with lubricant specialist ExxonMobil to host a driver efficiency challenge, designed to reward safe and fuel-efficient driving. The challenge is open to [...]

  • CTS expands RCV hire fleet

    Published On: Thursday 14 May 2015

    Refuse vehicle hire and maintenance specialist Collett Transport Services (CTS) has taken delivery of six new vehicles, including four 2015 plate Euro 6 RCVs. The two 7.5-tonne Isuzu chassis and [...]

  • Better loos for lorry drivers, demands petition

    Published On: Wednesday 13 May 2015

    The calls for the state of roadside toilet facilities for HGV drivers to be addressed have risen again in volume, with the launch of a petition by truck driver recruitment [...]

  • Senior TC Beverley Bell is new CILT president

    Published On: Tuesday 12 May 2015

    The senior traffic commissioner for Great Britain, Beverley Bell, used her inauguration lunch as president of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (CILT) to ask members to consider why [...]

  • Solving the driver shortage: FTA conference report

    Published On: Monday 4 May 2015

    Addressing the demographic imbalance in the truck-driving population is the key to easing the driver shortage, the FTA’s Summit, Solving the Driver Crisis, heard. Volvo Trucks UK & Ireland managing [...]

  • Brighter times are here, say UK truck bosses

    Published On: Sunday 3 May 2015

    Senior representatives of the heavy vehicle manufacturers attending the CV Show (and behind the razzmatazz there were some significant stay-aways) were generally confident about the future of the UK truck [...]

  • Industry welcomes foreign truck tax revenue figures

    Published On: Saturday 2 May 2015

    The Road Haulage Association has welcomed the government’s announcement that income from the HGV road user levy, designed to bill foreign truck operators for their use of the UK’s roads, [...]