• Brigade launches new radar reversing safety system

    Published On: Wednesday 18 June 2014

    Brigade Electronics has launched a new radar obstacle detection system, which is said to improve safety by providing drivers with clear warnings of people or obstructions behind large reversing vehicles. [...]

  • Q8Oils celebrates 10 years of business with Kerr & Smith

    Published On: Wednesday 18 June 2014

    Lubricant supplier Q8Oils has reached a 10-year milestone in its business relationship with Kerr & Smith, a family company providing sales and servicing for Vauxhall cars and Iveco and DAF [...]

  • UK ‘to take only 28,000 new trucks this year’

    Published On: Wednesday 18 June 2014

    The hangover from the Euro 5 sales spike will last all year, according to Scania (Great Britain)’s managing director Claes Jacobsson. “Year-on-year we are well behind where we were last [...]

  • CTS expands fleet with new hookloaders

    Published On: Tuesday 17 June 2014

    Municipal vehicle hire and maintenance services specialist and south west Hyva agent, Collett Transport Services (CTS), has recently purchased two new Scania chassis and installed new sliding Hyva hookloading equipment [...]

  • DfT consults on new spot fines for truck drivers

    Published On: Monday 16 June 2014

    The Department for Transport has launched a consultation into proposals which would give enforcement officers new powers to issue on-the-spot fines to truck drivers for drivers’ hours and HGV Road [...]

  • Mandatory CO2 monitoring planned for heavy vehicles

    Published On: Friday 13 June 2014

    The European Commission (EC) has released a report laying out in detail its strategy to cut carbon emissions by heavy-duty vehicles (HDVs) – the EC’s blanket term for trucks, buses [...]

  • Northern Ireland authorities not enforcing foreign lorry tax

    Published On: Thursday 12 June 2014

    Disagreement between Whitehall and Stormont has meant that the HGV Road User Levy is not being enforced by authorities in Northern Ireland, as the devolved administration attempts to negotiate further [...]

  • 2018 tachograph enforcement changes revealed

    Published On: Thursday 12 June 2014

    Details of upcoming changes to European tachograph legislation due to come into force in 2018 have been revealed by tachograph analysis and training specialist Tachodisc. The changes concern a procedure [...]

  • DVSA launches new OCRS report for operators

    Published On: Wednesday 11 June 2014

    The Driver & Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) has announced the launch of a report said to help operators better understand their Operator Compliance Risk Score (OCRS), the mechanism DVSA uses [...]