The quality, health, safety and environment manager at Derbyshire’s Middlebrook Transport has criticised government plans to include a ‘hierarchy of road users’ in a revised Highway Code, that could, in [...]
Global logistics provider Kuehne+Nagel has chosen eight gas-powered Volvo tractors to serve contracts with Costa and Whitbread, with the aim of reducing emissions and improving the sustainability of their transport [...]
Scania has stolen Swedish rival Volvo’s crown with the world’s most powerful production truck. Revisions to Scania’s unique flagship V8 engine range see its top offering now rated at 770 [...]
Scania and MAN parent company Traton held its public ‘virtual’ annual general meeting last month, in which new CEO Matthias Gründler announced that the boards of the two European truck [...]
Mercedes’ parent Daimler Truck has unveiled a prototype hydrogen-powered heavy tractor unit. The Mercedez-Benz GenH2 will have similar performance to its diesel-engined equivalent, but run on liquid hydrogen, which will [...]
We report on the series of Commercial Vehicle Days virtual seminars held last month by Continental, focusing on the challenges facing fleets in 2020 and beyond, and the technology it [...]
MAN, the company which once incorporated the name of compression-ignition engine inventor Rudolf Diesel in its own logo, has made it plain that its future lies with electric power. Speaking [...]
Some of Europe’s leading truck manufacturers are cutting their workforces in response to the Covid-19 crisis and the need for increased research and development spending. Traton subsidiary MAN is to [...]
An Anglo-Swedish company has launched what it claims to be the first 16-tonne all-electric urban delivery truck to be designed and built as such from the ground up, rather than [...]
