• Loaded trucks compulsory for driving tests from November

    Published On: Thursday 15 August 2013

    Truck driving tests to obtain Category C and C + E licences will have to be taken in laden vehicles from 15 November. New regulations provide both a minimum total [...]

  • New UK bosses at Scania and Volvo

    Published On: Wednesday 14 August 2013

    Scania and Volvo have both appointed new managing directors to their respective UK market companies, with the men taking up their posts this Autumn. Claes Jacobsson (left), currently senior vice-president [...]

  • Merc Sprinters help maintain drains in Glasgow

    Published On: Thursday 8 August 2013

    Glasgow drain maintenance specialist EEG has invested in a new, 17-strong fleet of Mercedes-Benz Sprinter 513 CDI chassis cabs supplied by dealership Western Commercial, each fitted with bespoke bodies from [...]

  • Eight Stertil Koni columns for Konectbus

    Published On: Thursday 8 August 2013

    Norfolk-based passenger transport operator Konectbus has invested in eight wireless mobile column lifts from lifting equipment specialist Stertil Koni, to support its new 10,000 sq ft workshop complex. Konectbus, which [...]

  • MAN delivers 440 new trucks to Saudi Arabia

    Published On: Wednesday 7 August 2013

    Two recent high-volume truck orders from operators in Saudi Arabia are helping to expand MAN’s presence in the Middle East. Food producer Almarai has ordered 240 new trucks of the MAN TGS [...]

  • UK Worker of the Year: TTC urges entrants from transport sector

    Published On: Tuesday 6 August 2013

    Commercial vehicle components wholesaler TTC is encouraging workers in the CV and fleet industry sector to enter the ‘UK Worker of the Year 2013’ competition, now in its fourth year, [...]

  • More VOSA test stations to close as ATF numbers hit 350

    Published On: Wednesday 24 July 2013

    VOSA has announced the forthcoming closure of eight more of its test stations in the first quarter of next year. Testing will cease at Northampton, Wolverhampton, Southampton, Wrexham, Beverley, Cardiff, [...]

  • MPs publish report on work of VOSA

    Published On: Monday 22 July 2013

    The House of Commons transport select committee has published its report on the work of the Vehicle and Operator Services Agency, VOSA, in which it has highlighted ‘significant communciation problems’ between the [...]

  • European Parliament votes to back wheel safety campaign

    Published On: Saturday 20 July 2013

    The European Parliament (EP) has voted to support the testing of commercial vehicle wheels fitted onto non-standard axles as part of the EU Roadworthiness Package, following an amendment endorsed by [...]