Features & Interviews

Take your brand-new Mercedes-Benz Sprinter van along an exposed stretch of motorway and into a howling cross-wind and you shouldn’t feel a thing. That’s because it is fitted with Cross Wind Assist. It reacts to prevent the vehicle being wafted…

Almost every other HGV tyre in the EU is a retread. Perhaps this is little wonder, because since 2004 the debate as to whether retread tyres are up to the job has all but disappeared due to the E-109 mark…

All fleet engineers and truck operators know that good aerodynamics will save fuel, but in the search for every last drop of efficiency, the wind tunnel is being replaced by computing power. Welcome to computational fluid dynamics, and what it…

Do you think social media and the commercial vehicle sector are mutually exclusive? If so, perhaps you should think again. Many companies are using the new media on the web to keep in touch with their customers, communicate new product…

Whole Vehicle Type Approval (WVTA) is a challenge for the entire body building industry, but for body builders over a certain size it is a nettle that must be grasped. One firm that has been only too glad to rise…

The truck industry has seen an overhaul of its flagship products, thanks to Euro-6 engine emission legislation. Of course the coach and bus industry is no different, but in addition to cleaner emission standards, passenger service vehicles (PSV) also have…

Already a colossus among trailer builders, Germany’s Schmitz Cargobull looks set to get even bigger over the next few years. With a total output of 45,300 trailers and bodies for rigid chassis in 2013/14 and a turnover of £1.3bn, it…

Manufacturers have been keen to ensure that – where possible – the systems enjoyed by the masses in their passenger cars, can also be of benefit to truck operators. Numerous improvements with telemetry and diagnostics have predominantly made fleets more…

  Sitting at the not-so-glamorous end of the truck market, 7.5-tonners are the unsung heroes of road transport. Long-haul trips from Falmouth to Fraserburgh – or Birmingham to Bologna – are exotic adventures their drivers can only dream about. Instead,…

Electric cars can be found buzzing around every large UK city, but the commercial vehicle sector has yet to see a significant take-up. So far this year there have been 284 new registrations of commercial vehicles joining almost 1,000 already…