Volvo Trucks will no longer offer manual gearboxes as an option on heavy trucks, as its I-Shift automated transmission has become almost universally accepted. The company said that less than [...]
Truck manufacturers have called for a Europe-wide ban on devices intended to bypass selective catalytic reduction (SCR) diesel emissions control systems, after it emerged that so-called AdBlue emulator devices had [...]
The organisation that revealed the Volkswagen ‘emissionsgate’ scandal has given the Euro 6 heavy-duty diesel engines fitted to trucks and buses a clean bill of health as far as nitrogen [...]
Renault launches retrofit anti-rollaway parking brake
Published On: Wednesday 11 January 2017
A system designed to prevent drivers leaving the cab of their truck without applying the parking brake has been introduced by Renault Trucks UK. Dubbed Anti-Runaway Automated Park Brake (Anti-RAPB), [...]
Traffic Commissioner posts warning on mobile phone use
Published On: Tuesday 27 September 2016
Nick Jones, the traffic commissioner (TC) for the West Midlands and Wales, told the Freight Transport Association’s Transport Manager’s conference in Chepstow that he planned to do more about drivers [...]
The forthcoming tightening of Euro 6 requirements to Step C has spurred Europe’s heavy truck manufacturers to refine existing designs, and display them at the recent IAA Show in Germany. [...]
Scania goes flat-floor with ‘most important trucks ever’
Published On: Wednesday 31 August 2016
Scania has launched its first all-new truck cabs in a more than a decade, and announced a renewed commitment to sustainable transport and renewable fuels. The S-series, with a flat [...]
Iveco claims double-digit fuel economy boost for New Stralis
Published On: Monday 20 June 2016
Iveco has revamped its Stralis heavy truck range, with modifications that it says will make the trucks the most efficient and reliable of their kind. A double-digit percentage improvement in [...]
The election of Labour’s Sadiq Khan as London mayor is already ruffling feathers within the road transport industry, if reaction to some of his policy announcements from sector representatives is [...]