Thompsons are the UK’s leading builder for tipper bodies, and it has been contracted to supply the Ministry of Defence with 134 tipper bodies. It forms the largest part of an order for 184 vehicles, comprising of tippers, crane vehicles, drilling rigs, tipper grabs and volumetric mixers. The order seems to form a part of [...]
Ryder, one of the Europe’s largest transportation companies, has placed an order for 613 new HGV / LGVs. This has come to a whopping £18m investment. Their new vehicles will include a number of DAF 7.5 tonne, 12 tonne and 18 tonne vehicles with refrigerated units, box bodies and tail lifts. It also includes Mercedes [...]
Collease, the truck and trailer rental company, has had a gap of more than a year in the market, but has returned by updating its fleet with 102 Dennison skeletal trailers. Dennison are based in Lancaster, with sites in County Kildare and Suffolk. This hire-purchase deal is the first of any kind that Collease has [...]
The European Parliament’s Transport Committee have rejected a fresh proposal to include owner drivers working under the Working Time Directive, creating further setbacks. This directive has been under review since last year, being led by the Employment Committee. MEP Said El Khadraoui presented the Transport Committee as it voted on proposals on Wednesday. El Khadraoui [...]
Renault and Vauxhall have released a range of brand spanking new panel vans that will go on sale this week. The Renault Master and Vauxhall Movano offer better performance and improved running costs as well as a broader line up when compared to their ongoing machines. This new vehicle is a part of Renault and [...]
Sainsbury’s, the supermarket giant, has always been renowned for sourcing local and national products over international mass marketed items. They have been at the forefront of introducing organic and free range food, as well as providing encouraging leaflets and recipe ideas to their customers. Sainsbury’s have long been known to adapt and change their policies [...]
A team of 23 friends want to achieve Guinness World Record status by driving around the globe in a fire engine. LGV / HGV driving instructors or drivers are being sought to train the team. The crew, appropriately named ‘Follow That Fire Engine’ are planning to drive their Mercedes 1124 AF (4×4) affectionately known as [...]
Each year there is a massive charity fund raiser and social evening in the West Midlands, to which users of the TruckNet UK forums flock. This year, the event was held in Cannock, Staffordshire, and was sponsored by RBI and supported by BigLorryBlog, Scania, Isuzu and Iveco. Help For Heroes is a charity that provides [...]
TNT, the global transportation and distribution giant, say that trading conditions in the last quarter of 2009 were “improving”. This came as they unveiled a full-year revenue of £570.1m, which is £263.9m on 2008’s figure (863.9m). TNT’s CEO, Peter Bakker, says that “operating results in Q4 2009 were relatively solid in a trading environment that [...]
The price for driving along the M6 Toll road and beating the normal M6 traffic is going up by 6.4% next month, according to the Freight Transport Association. They say that this inflation-busting rise will force drivers back onto the already heaving and over-congested M6, defeating the point of having the Toll there in the [...]