Banbury-based Prodrive, best known for its involvement in rallying, is working with Volta in the development of the French company’s electric truck. The vehicle features a low-entry composite cab, made [...]

The fuel of the future for long-haul road transport is diesel, according to Renault Trucks alternative energies development director François Savoye. As part of the manufacturer’s recent Alternative Fuels day, [...]

Renault Trucks used its recent Alternative Fuels day to launch its diesel-powered Optifuel Lab 3 heavy-duty artic prototype, promising a 13 per cent fuel saving over existing designs thanks to [...]

Premium manufacturers Bridgestone and Michelin are forging ahead with efforts to produce even more efficient truck tyres. Speaking at the FTA transport manager conference in Sparkford, Terry Salter, truck and [...]

Transport trade groups are busily assessing the detail of Boris Johnson’s new Brexit deal and its potential impact on the sector’s operations; but the Freight Transport Association (FTA) has already [...]

Operators need to scrutinise and interpret the results of roller brake-testing, and not just rely on seeing the word ‘pass’ on the bottom line of the generated report. That was [...]

Allison Transmission hopes that legislative requirements for increasingly specialised truck designs to operate in London may lead operators to specify its fully-automatic gearboxes in place of standard automated manual transmissions. [...]

Operators of vehicles that hit bridges will be summoned to preliminary hearings, the Western area traffic commissioner Kevin Rooney warned at the FTA conference, following building concern over recent months [...]

Addressing the Freight Transport Association’s (FTA) Transport Manager conference in Sparkford, Somerset, Caroline Hicks, head of enforcement transformation at DVSA, outlined several areas of current focus for the agency’s enforcement [...]