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News from Prohire: Midlands based Prohire Plc, one of the UK’s fastest growing commercial vehicle hire and fleet management specialists, has announced a major investment in its spot rental fleet. The company has recently placed orders worth in excess of…

More young people are thinking about a career in engineering following a campaign to stimulate interest among school goers. The Tomorrow’s Engineers Week ran in early November last year and aimed to get government, employers and educators enthusing about the…

The  FTA has welcomed news that the UK and Ireland governments are to introduce a new marker to tackle fuel fraud. The product will be used to mark rebated fuels, including the off-road diesel commonly known in the UK as…

Roads Minister Robert Goodwill has visited the 15ft-deep sinkhole on the M2 and pledged to get remedial works done to UK road as quickly as possible. The hole is just one of the results of the string of severe weather…

The rarified world of heavy haulage chassis sees the launch of two new specialist tractors from Mercedes-Benz. They are built in the Daimler trucks Custom Tailored Trucks (CTT) workshop where nothing is ordinary. Going for niche markets like this can…

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…

Karen Crispe is to join the Freight Transport Association (FTA) as Commercial Director at the beginning of April. As a member of the executive team, Crispe will be responsible for leading the FTA’s commercial operations and will leave her position…

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…