Features & Interviews

Last year’s SMMT Award for Automotive Innovation was presented to Torotrak’s British-built Flybrid Kinetic Energy Recovery System (KERS) for buses and trucks. The award recognises the company’s commitment to innovation in improving efficiency, and reducing fuel consumption and CO2 emissions.…

Allowing regional authorities and city councils to establish their own rules on the design of goods vehicles could bring confusion and logistics problems, if vehicles that are accepted in one location are barred from another because they fail to meet…

The humble dandelion looks set to play a key role in the future development of tyres, as its roots are a source of high-quality natural rubber, according to Continental Tyres. David O’Donnell, Head of Global Research and Development for Passenger…

With the arrival of Euro-6 trucks on many company’s fleets in the past 12 months, the challenge of servicing and maintenance, and general management of the vehicles themselves, as well as their components – has reared its head once again.…

If anybody wants an accurate diagnosis of the true state of health of the UK’s heavy truck market then they could do worse than talk to Keltruck. Founded in 1983 by Chris Kelly and the biggest independently-owned Scania dealer in…

Compared with some of the giant trailer production facilities on the Continent, British trailer makers operate on a somewhat smaller scale. So when it comes to safety and durability testing are they at a disadvantage? Not a bit of it,…

Few people stop to think that nearly 30% of all the new trucks registered in the UK are also built domestically. One plant with a long back-story is Leyland Trucks in Lancashire, but should it defined as an assembly operation,…

A staggering 27% of European truck fleets recently surveyed made no use of telemetry whatsoever with another 16% making very restricted use of what is now widely-accepted technology. These were among the most surprising findings of research conducted on behalf…

The manual gearbox has been shifted even closer to the exit on the transmissions ward. It’s now been dealt another blow by Volvo’s latest innovation, a dual clutch (DC) gearbox. Automated manual transmissions (AMTs) have swept all before them in…

Readers of Transport News Brief  will be aware how much talk of ‘the future’ has been in the industry of late. Only last week European transport body IRU set up a forum to discuss how road freight  will change over…