• Plant Speed invests in £1m Merc Actros Titan rig

    Published On: Friday 15 March 2013

    Heavy haulage specialist Plant Speed is running the most expensive truck ever sold by Mercedes-Benz in the UK – a mighty Actros Titan which, together with its new Scheuerle modular [...]

  • New Volvo FH wins industrial design award

    Published On: Friday 15 March 2013

    The new Volvo FH has won a gong in the 2013 red dot product design awards, which honour outstanding industrial design. This year 4,662 products were entered for the awards over 19 categories. [...]

  • Bevan bodies deliver weight savings for Bensons

    Published On: Thursday 14 March 2013

    Bedroom furniture retailer Bensons for Beds has been delivering to customers with the first of a new generation of 7.5-tonne trucks with streamlined bodies, which are 500kg lighter than those [...]

  • Cartwright trailers help Hermes deliver improved fuel consumption

    Published On: Wednesday 13 March 2013

    Delivery giant Hermes has recently ordered 300 Fastback trailers from Cartwright. The new 13.6m trailers are part of a fleet replacement programme and have been selected to improve fuel consumption, [...]

  • Heavy-duty Allison applications showcased at Munich

    Published On: Wednesday 13 March 2013

    Visitors to the bauma 2013 exhibition in Munich this year (15-21 April) will be able to see various examples of how construction and mining operators are specifying Allison fully automatic [...]

  • World premiere of new Merc Atego

    Published On: Wednesday 13 March 2013

    The new Mercedes-Benz Atego made its world premiere today at Wörth am Rhein, Germany – see video footage from the event below. The Atego is the fourth of the manufacturer’s [...]

  • New North London main dealer for Isuzu Truck

    Published On: Wednesday 13 March 2013

    Isuzu Truck UK has announced the appointment of a new main dealer to cover the North London area. The new company, based at the Trafalgar Trading Estate in Enfield, is [...]

  • Gray & Adams trailers deployed for Noble cause

    Published On: Tuesday 12 March 2013

    Noble Foods has invested in a new fleet of temperature-controlled trailers from Gray & Adams in a bid to promote its support of the British armed forces. The company, a [...]

  • VBG supplies new 50mm coupling for Devon draw bar

    Published On: Tuesday 12 March 2013

    Owner-driver Cameron Zab, based in Widecombe-in-the-Moor near Newton Abbot, Devon, has recently invested in a DAF FAR XF 6X2 draw bar chassis fitted with a new VBG 575 Version 2.0 [...]