Scania has begun practical tests of a rear air deflector known as a boat-tail, which can reduce fuel consumption by up to two percent, which corresponds to an annual saving of 1,200 litres of fuel and three tonnes of CO2 emissions for a truck running 200,000 km a year.
Scania expects to rehire about 500 employees at its European production units.
Scania is driving change in the UK truck maintenance industry with its unique and highly competitively priced Fixed Price Repairs programme, which has rapidly established itself as an attractive option with the UK’s transport operators.
Wales’ oldest operational brewery, The Felinfoel Brewery Company Limited of Felinfoel, near Llanelli, Carmarthenshire has taken delivery of three new Scania four-wheel rigid distribution trucks.
