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04 August 2022 #Uncategorised

What a result for the Lionesses on Sunday, with England winning Euro 2022. The team are going to inspire so many girls to get involved in a sport that was until recently seen as being dominated by men. The automotive

28 July 2022 #Uncategorised

The CV sector’s royal effort this year is representing UK manufacturing across the globe In June we celebrated the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee, giving us a reason to be patriotic. We can now see the commercial vehicle sector should also feel

21 July 2022 #Uncategorised

As we head towards the summer holidays, graduation ceremonies are starting to taking place for the Class of 2022 technician apprentices around the country. Last week, some 65 Volvo Trucks HGV apprentice technicians were rewarded for their hard work at

14 July 2022 #Uncategorised

Hello, my name is Will Reeves and I’m the new Commercial Vehicle & Bus and Coach Section Manager at SMMT, taking over from Nigel Base, who has retired after 11 years in the job. I’ve worked in the industry for

07 July 2022 #Uncategorised

What a difference a week makes in the world of politics, however, in the commercial vehicle sector we continue to face the same and familiar challenges. The UK van market fell -23.0% year-on-year in June, seeing out a difficult first half

07 July 2022 #Uncategorised

What does Van Guard do? We are a van accessory manufacturer and make a range of commercial vehicle accessories, including roof bars, van racking, pipe carriers, van locks and security products. The company is based at Exeter Airport Business Park,

23 June 2022 #Uncategorised

Next week, one of SMMT’s most high profile events is finally upon us, with the CV sector a pivotal point of the discussion. SMMT’s International Automotive Summit is one of the top fixtures in the UK automotive calendar, and a

16 June 2022 #Uncategorised

A quick search reveals there are 156 mentions of infrastructure in the government’s new Future of Freight paper, published this week. Not all of them relate to electric charging infrastructure, but ‘enabling the transition to net zero’ is a key

09 June 2022 #Uncategorised

While we are all looking to put the pandemic behind us, its seismic effects are yet to become a thing of the past, not least in Britain’s van sector. New figures from SMMT show new van registrations fell for the

01 June 2022 #Uncategorised

We all know that working vehicles play a massive part in keeping the country going, driving the economy, but new data shows just how big a role they have taken on. New figures for 2021 show that commercial vehicles, buses

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