Cedartone – an independent trailer rental and management specialist – is claiming to dispel the myth that disc brakes are uneconomical to run on fleet and rental trailers. The reason…….a four and a half year old reefer which, in more than half a million kilometres (310,685 miles), has only required one new set of...
Peterborough-based RHA Training has just received the CPC exam results from December 2011 and the overall result is one of which the Training Centre staff are justifiably proud.
A new report released by Goodyear Dunlop reveals that despite efforts to improve fuel efficiency, one in seven European road hauliers predict they will be out of business within eight years unless drastic developments are made to improve fleet fuel efficiency.
London operator Cedars Recovery has been gearing up for new rules governing the capital’s Low Emission Zone – with a little help from Roger Dyson. To operate within Greater London medium and heavy trucks must now meet the Euro 4 standard for particulate emissions or incur a daily penalty charge.
Lucky Red is yet another new customer for Isuzu Truck UK in the food distribution sector, with the recent arrival of the first pair of Isuzu Forward 7.5t refrigerated trucks into the company’s UK distribution fleet.
Government proposals to charge lorries for using the UK’s roads should mean a fairer deal for domestic road freight operators, but it must be cost neutral, warns the Freight Transport Association.
The Road Haulage Association (RHA) has welcomed the government’s proposals to charge foreign trucks for using UK roads.
Plans for a lorry road user-charging scheme to create a fairer deal for UK hauliers were announced today by Roads Minister, Mike Penning.
The SARTRE project, Safe Road Trains for the Environment has successfully completed the first test demonstrations of a multiple vehicle platoon. The test fleet included a lead truck followed by three cars driven entirely autonomously at speeds of up to 90 km/h – with no more than six metres gap between the vehicles.
GreenRoad, a leader in driver performance and safety management, is the latest partner of the Freight Transport Association’s (FTA) Van Excellence scheme.
