Features & Interviews

Every year, the CV Show focuses attention on the health of the sector and this year, it is well on course to be the biggest, busiest and most valuable for years. Running from Tuesday 29 April to Thursday 1 May…

With new Euro-6 technology on trucks, many operators are turning to vehicle manufacturer maintenance packages until they better get their head around EGRs, SCRs and other acronyms.  What’s life like in the workshop with vans, coaches and buses? There are…

Vans, trucks, buses and coaches are becoming ever more sophisticated and complex in the hunt for extra economy and lower emissions. Have they become too complex to maintain in-house? Manufacturers offer compelling repair and maintenance contracts, but does their expertise…

Clever steering systems could help longer truck combinations negotiate the twists and turns of the UK’s trunk roads, but could also be put to work on the bins.   The majority of bin wagons are three-axle rigids, which means their…

Longer truck combinations bring a promise of significant improvements in efficiency for the logistics sector, but can the UK’s infrastructure cope? Professor David Cebon certainly thinks so, and reckons technology needed to make it possible could be put to wider…