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Chilled courier Igloo Thermo-Logistics has taken delivery of 10 new refrigerated delivery vehicles through Ryder, the commercial vehicle contract hire, rental, and maintenance specialist. The trucks will service Igloo’s partnership with national charity Magic Breakfast, which has been providing healthy…

One of Europe’s most frequent express coach services – the Citylink 900 between Glasgow and Edinburgh – has been upgraded with 18 new Plaxton Panorama double decker coaches. Delivered to Scottish Citylink and its contracted operators, the luxurious new coaches…

DAF Trucks is introducing a new Remote Tacho Download function to its DAF Connect fleet management platform. The feature will allow operators to read, store and analyse the memory of driver cards and tachographs online and in real time. This…

The SMMT will be taking a delegation to the Work Truck Show in Indianapolis from the 3 – 6 March 2020. Celebrating its 20th Anniversary, the show is North America’s largest commercial vehicle event, providing an inside look at the…

Prevost, a subsidiary of Volvo Buses, has secured its highest value order ever, with the win of two contracts from New York State’s Metropolitan Transport Authority (MTA). The contracts will see Prevost supply up to 330 buses, with a firm…

Specialist haulier Chris Wright Ltd has turned to Teletrac Navman as it takes its first steps into digital fleet management. The company, which is best known for transporting specialist loads – everything from heavy duty excavators and bulldozers, to helicopters…

The first operators to add DAF’s CF Electric to their fleets have now clocked up a combined mileage of more than 150,000 kilometers – enough to travel around the earth four times. A total of six fully-electric trucks have been…

A pioneering project to collate and share bus location data across England will soon see passengers able to plan their journeys with to-the-minute accuracy. Announced by Buses Minister Baroness Vere, the project will see the standardisation and publication of information…

Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles has given the first glimpse of its all-new Caddy before the van’s full reveal later this year. The sketches from early stages of the model’s development illustrate what the brand describes as its ‘self-confidence’ in entering the…

The British-built Vauxhall Vivaro van – the latest generation of which was launched in 2019 – helped Vauxhall to a 27% increase in sales volume last year. Built at Vauxhall’s recently transformed plant in Luton, the popularity of new Vivaro…