Truck

News from Isuzu: Gwenno Pugh, the first female farmer to be crowned winner of Wales’ hugely popular farming reality show Fferm Ffactor, has been presented with her brand-new Isuzu D-Max from RJ Williams Limited, based in Porthmadog. Pugh, 28 and…

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…

News from MAN: The Metropolitan Police Service has taken delivery of a new MAN TGX 26.480 6×2 tractor unit to spearhead its Exchanging Places cycle safety and awareness campaign. At a series of events across London, the truck, conspicuous in…

News from Isuzu: One of Isuzu UK’s own D-Max vehicles has been doing its bit for the flood victims of Berkshire this week. Neil McIntee,  Editor of online commercial vehicle website VansA2Z, happened to have an Extended cab model on loan…

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…

Production of aerodynamic DAF LFs is set to increase at the Leyland manufacturing plant as the efficient design is now available to buyers across Europe. Operators have reported fuel savings of more than 5% with the Euro-6 PACCAR Aerobody LF,…

News from Mercedes-Benz: Streetlighting specialist Marwood Electrical Company has welcomed the introduction by Mercedes-Benz of an extra long wheelbase option for its latest 18-tonne New Actros model. An established operator of trucks bearing the three-pointed star, Marwood Electrical is based…

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…