• CV Show 2015: OSS Group launches new waste collection deals

    Published On: Monday 2 March 2015

    Stand: 4E101 A new range of vehicle workshop waste collection and recycling deals is being offered by OSS Group at this year’s Commercial Vehicle Show. These include the new Green [...]

  • Shell: separate fuel efficiency managers ‘on the rise’

    Published On: Monday 2 March 2015

    Financial, environmental and operational pressures are paving the way for the emergence of a distinct new role within transport fleets, says Phil Williams, head of Shell Commercial Fleet UK For [...]

  • Trade groups in Treasury driver shortage talks

    Published On: Monday 2 March 2015

    Representatives from the road transport trade associations have held urgent meetings with HM Treasury, to make their case for new government funding towards the licensing and qualification of truck drivers [...]

  • SMMT in low-emission diesel uptake drive

    Published On: Sunday 1 March 2015

    The Society of Motor Manufacturers & Traders (SMMT) used a special event last month to urge policymakers to redouble their efforts to encourage the adoption of modern diesel vehicles, in [...]

  • Exhibitors gear up for CV Show 2015

    Published On: Wednesday 25 February 2015

    Preparations are well underway for this year’s Commercial Vehicle Show, which takes place from 14-16 April at the NEC Birmingham – as show bosses have revealed that there will be [...]

  • Renewed calls for NI fuel laundering crackdown

    Published On: Tuesday 24 February 2015

    A committee of the British-Irish Parliamentary Assembly (BIPA) has expressed alarm at what it called “evidence of the widespread presence” of fuel laundering plants and illicit fuel sales around the [...]

  • TfL’s FORS scheme privatised for nationwide rollout

    Published On: Thursday 12 February 2015

    Transport for London (TfL) has handed its Fleet Operator Recognition Scheme (FORS) over to a consortium led by Aecom, and including the Chartered Institute of Logistics & Transport and Fleet [...]

  • DAF tweaks its heavy trucks for diesel savings

    Published On: Friday 6 February 2015

    UK market leader DAF has introduced a number of refinements to its Euro 6 XF and CF trucks and MX-11 and MX-13 engines, with the objective of achieving fuel savings [...]

  • Bridgestone extends tyre contract with Arla Foods

    Published On: Monday 2 February 2015

    Tyre specialist Bridgestone has announced an extension of its fleet agreement with dairy farmer cooperative Arla Foods, with a renewed contract for tyre supply and maintenance now in place until [...]