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Inert Recycling adds eight new Renault Truck tippers to fleet

Eight 13-litre Renault Truck C440 8x4s with Boweld tipping bodies have joined the 32-truck fleet of Inert Recycling.

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Biffa bin wagons electrified by Lunaz in new partnership

Biffa has partnered with upcycling business Lunaz which will give end-of-life refuse trucks electric motors

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Fifth Gear Transport Services adds eight DAFs to its fleet

Fifth Gear Transport Services has added seven DAF XDs and an XF

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Continental's new-look show truck hits the roads across Europe

Continental has revealed its new-look show truck, which will be travelling to trade fairs and commercial vehicle events across 35 countries to highlight its ‘Your Business, Our Solutions’ strategy.

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Fielden Factors adds larger trucks to fleet to help cut costs

Lancashire builders merchant aims to reduce costs and maximise payload with new trucks

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Wrights improves green credentials with new fleet additions

New CNG commercial vehicles added to the Wrights fleet as part of its carbon reduction plan

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Continental to reaffirm its multi-solution service at Road Transport Expo 2023

Continental will once again demonstrate its capabilities as a multi-solution tyre service provider at this summer’s Road Transport Expo (RTX), which takes place from 28-30 June at NAEC Stoneleigh, Warwickshire.

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Malaysian Rubber Council to share industry knowledge at this summer's Road Transport Expo

The Malaysian Rubber Council (MRC) will be rolling into this summer’s bumper tradeshow, Road Transport Expo (RTX), from 28-30 June at NAEC Stoneleigh. MRC is an agency that represents stakeholders in the Malaysian rubber industry and aims to raise awareness of the different companies and product expertise in the sector to world markets.

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Ikea gets ten electric Renaults as part of Wincanton fleet deal

Wincanton has added ten new electric trucks from Renault as the part of its contract to provide home delivery services for Ikea

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Two Iveco S-Way trucks join Scuderia Ferrari to transport F1 cars

Iveco has supplied two S-Way trucks to Formula 1 team Scuderia Ferrari

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SM UK Ltd open third workshop in Dartford…as Radar AI Sidescan is launched!

SM UK opened their third main workshop to strengthen their UK-wide service

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Quantron launches the QHM FCEV Aero hydrogen fuel cell truck

The 4x2 tractor has a 700km range and takes 40 minutes to refuel

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Warrington gets new Approved Renault Trucks dealer

Diamond Trucks UK has opened its first GB base in Warrington

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The Green Group replace two third of fleet with new Actros trucks

The Green Group has ordered 101 new Mercedes-Benz Actros trucks

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Volvo's Croydon dealership gets £2m makeover

Volvo Trucks' Croydon dealership refurbishment has been unveiled

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MAN eTruck undergoes winter testing

MAN’s 2025 eTruck has completed four months of arctic testing

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Mercedes celebrates 60 years of Worth truck plant

The Wörth truck plant in Germany is to celebrate its 60th anniversary in October.

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Family-run Lawton Tubes has taken delivery of a Volvo FM 380 26-tonner with a Fred Smith & Sons SlidaFlex body

It is the first Volvo to join its fleet in more than 100 years of operation

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The SMMT calls for a truck-dedicated charging infrastructure and better financial incentives to boost sales of zero-tailpipe-emission trucks

There are currently no public truck charging points on the UK road network

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Motus Commercials wins a pair of awards at DAF’s 2023 Dealer Conference

Trophies were awarded to its South West region and Halesowen branches

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Longtown-based Cumbria Logistics has taken delivery of two new 18-tonne Renault D280 curtainsiders

The Renault D280 4x2 rigids have been supplied by Border Trucks

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Krone UK supplies London-based Southern Van Lines with two new Dry Liners

The 4m high trailers will predominantly be used in Europe

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Hauliers can reduce punctures by checking their yards for sharp objects reveals Bridgestone report

Report reveals that simple yard checks could improve safety and save money

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Volta Trucks commences series production of its 16-tonne electric Zero

The zero-tailpipe-emission medium-duty truck will be built in Austria

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ReFuels launches as renewable biomethane supplier for HGVs

CNG Fuels acquires stake in Renewable Transport Fuel Services creating ReFuels

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D&D Transports updates fleet with Turbo Compound trucks from Renault

Nottinghamshire-based D&D Transport has updated its fleet with 10 new Renault T High 480 6x2 Turbo Compounds Trucks

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New commercialmotor.com website launched

New and improved commercialmotor.com website goes live

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Renault Trucks completes its second EV Roadshow

More than 300 UK hauliers attended one of the 11 dealership venues

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Volvo introduces acousting seat-belt reminder

Volvo has introduced an acoustic seat belt reminder as standard in all trucks for the UK and Continental markets. "By so clearly reminding the driver about the seat belt, we hope that several hundred lives or serious injuries will be avoided every year," says safety director Lars-Göran Löwenadler.

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Volvo looking to axe 136 jobs

In another sign of the current downturn hitting truck sales, Volvo Trucks has started a 90-day consultation over almost 140 potential job losses across its wholly-owned dealer network and head office.

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Volvo sets up new centre in Kent

Volvo Trucks now has a used truck presence in the South East following the opening of a Used Truck Centre in Hythe, Kent. Volvo Trucks used trucks director Peter Groome says previously there was no formal presence in the South East, as Kent-based independent franchise dealer MC Truck & Bus was one of a few dealers that didn't have a used truck branch. The partnership between Volvo Trucks and MC Truck & Bus sees the manufacturer move onto the existing Hythe site. Sales have started wel...

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Volvo FEs clean up in Rotherham

Waste collection in Rotherham has been boosted by the council's addition of six new Volvo FE trucks. The 23-tonne Low Entry Cab models will work on domestic kerbside collections alongside more than 200 other vehicles collecting glass, textiles and paper. Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council fleet manager Craig Simpson says: "We have Volvos in a number of different applications, so we already know that the Volvo is a quality product.

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Dawson Rentals takes 100 MAN TGM rigids

Dawson Rentals has taken delivery of 100 MAN TGM rigids for its expanding fleet of refrigerated and ambient trucks. The Milton Keynes-based rental firm has acquired some 150 of rigid MANs in the past 12 months, on top of 250 MAN tractor units taken on over the same period. MAN now accounts for one fifth of the Dawson fleet.

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Ken Mallinson continues with fleet upgrade

Barnsley-based Ken Mallinson & Sons Transport has put 10 new Euro-5 Mercedes-Benz Actros tractors onto its fleet as part of its replacement programme.The new tractor units, supplied by Northside Truck & Van in Doncaster, are 460hp Megaspace units with automatic transmissions, and will be used as part of the firm’s general haulage fleet delivering goods for customers including Asda.

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New Iveco trucks for Hendricks Lovell

Hayes-based builders merchant Hendricks Lovell has taken delivery of four new Iveco Stralis Active Day rigids.The order of 26 tonners from the firm - a division of Grafton Merchanting GB - includes four Stralis 6x4 rigids, one of which will operate with a drawbar trailer.

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Tesco trys out first Iveco trucks on fleet

Tesco has bought 20 Eurocargo 18-tonners for its fleet, the first Iveco trucks to be operated by the supermarket giant. The decision to try out the Italian manufacturer’s trucks follows a strong performance by 1,500 Iveco light commercial vehicles in the supermarket chain’s home delivery division, Tesco.com.

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Tips on selling vans and trucks at auction

Selling through an auction can be a quick, clean and relatively pain-free means of disposing of your time-served vans and trucks.While they may not fetch the money you might make if you retailed them privately, leaving disposal in the hands of professional auctioneers is less time-consuming, and a lot less hassle. That, of course, presupposes that you have no plans to set up your own retail operation and run it as a stand-alone business.

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Blakemore Logistics takes delivery of refrigerated urban double-deck trailers

Blakemore Logistics, the own-account arm of Spar owner AF Blakemore, has taken delivery of what are believed to be the first urban refrigerated double-deck trailers in the UK, courtesy of Gray & Adams. Using double-deck specifications the single-temperature trailers, which operate at +4ºC, are used to transport multi-drop consignments of up to 64 cages of chilled and ambient products. Previous trailers only had a capacity of 38.

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Demand for used trucks force values up 44 percent in five years

Used truck prices have risen 44% in five years despite a 35% increase in mileage, reports Manheim Remarketing.

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Robinson Contract Services adds four new Renault Landers to fleet

East Yorkshire-based Robinson Contract Services has added to its fleet with four new Renault Premium Lander 8-wheelers.The 430hp Renault’s are all fitted with Weightlifter 32m3 plank-side bodies, and join the operator’s other Renault’s, including Premium artics, and its two Volvo FM 8x4s.

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New Isuzu Truck UK parts and service site in Gloucestershire

Arthur Spriggs & Sons, based in Tewkesbury, has been appointed a parts and service agent for Isuzu Truck (UK).

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Renault reveals its Euro-6 range

Renault Trucks has launched its Euro-6 line-up at its headquarters in Lyon, France. With 6,000 guests, it was not just the ambitious launch event that broke records for Renault: the company points out that no other manufacturer has ever dared to renew its entire range at a single stroke. The Volvo Group, Renault Trucks’ parent, is said to have invested €2bn (£1.7bn) in the project.

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Sketch of new menacing Renault Trafic revealed

A first look at the third-generation of Renault’s medium sized Trafic van has been released, with a range of new styling, technology and engine modifications said to have benefitted from Renault’s involvement in F1.

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CV Show 2014: Isuzu's Euro-6 3-litre engine avoids weight gain

Isuzu Truck expects 60% of future 7.5-tonne Forward chassis-cab sales to be fitted with its new Euro-6, 3-litre engine because it does not incur the usual weight penalty.Marketing director Keith Child said the Urban chassis-cab featuring the turbocharged 4-cylinder 3-litre engine is 200kg lighter than the 5.2-litre engine, previously the sole option for 7.5-tonners. Both Euro-6 engines will debut at the CV Show.

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Schmitz launches new trailer design

Schmitz Cargobull has a radical new trailer chassis design, replacing conventional I-beam main chassis rails with a Z-beam rail. It takes five minutes to form a pair of main rails by cold-rolling flat strips of steel into a Z profile, 60% quicker than making I-beams by welding top and bottom flanges to a vertical web.

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John Mitchell takes on 90 new trailers

Grangemouth firm John Mitchell Haulage & Warehousing has now put the last of 90 new units from Dennison Trailers on the road in a move that renews almost half its total trailer fleet. The trailers, delivered in batches from June, comprise 60 sliding skeletals, 12 fixed skeletals, six tipping skeletals and 12 curtainsiders.

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Solway Daf has relocated in Workington to a new £1m dealership

Solway Daf will officially open the doors to its £1m dealership in Workington. The new dealership is situated on the A595 on the edge of the town at Lillyhall, four miles from the former site on Clay Flatts Industrial Estate in the centre of Workington.

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Daf begins search for UK Technician of the Year

The process of finding Daf Trucks’ 2015 UK Technician of the Year is under way.The competition, open to all Daf technicians, begins with a network wide technical questionnaire accessed online through the Daf TechShare programme.Technicians are divided into four categories to reflect differing levels of training - from level 1 to correspond with basic product knowledge through to master technician ability.By the end of this month, technicians will have completed the first of four question papers.

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Mercedes-Benz to start offering the Jimmy Beam Down Light safety system

Mercedes-Benz has said it may start offering the Jimmy Beam Down Light (JBDL) safety system as an option on new trucks if a trial demonstrates “calculable benefits and advantages”.

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