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Transaid and Fowler Welch help African drivers

Fowler Welch driver trainers, Paul Hughes and William Robertson, have completed a fortnight’s placement at Transaid’s Professional Driver Training project.

Asset Alliance new deal with R. Boardall

Asset Alliance provides Reed Boardall with Gray & Adams contract

Reed Boardhall has agreed a new seven-year contract with Asset Alliance worth £3m for 32 new Gray & Adams double-deck refrigerated trailers.

Find out what alternatively fuelled future MAN see for HGVs, and how they will meet the challenge

This CM Special, written using data from fleet operators who filled out a May 2019 survey, will reveal more about some of the alternative fuel technologies that will be part of MAN’s exciting journey towards a truly sustainable future.

Woodlands Generators gets new Volvo FH-500 Tridem

Woodlands Generators has been impressed with its first ever Tridem chassis; its put a Volvo FH-500 8x4 into service.

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Head to head: 1996 Mercedes-Benz SK1853LS 4x2 vs 1995 Scania R143/450MNA 6x2

If you’re looking for a powerful V8 tractor to remind you of your youth, you won’t do much better than these two workhorses from the mid-1990s. But which should you go for?

Sales team reshuffle at DAF

Nigel Hunt retires in reshuffle of top sales positions at DAF Trucks

Euro-6 Volvo FH-500 - Used Truck Deal of the Day

This Euro-6 Volvo FH-500 Globetrotter 4x2 complete with the Swedish manufacturers I-Shift Dual Clutch gearbox is Commercial Motor’s deal of the day.

Fuel economy from Volvo FH 540 Globetrotter impresses

G Headley Transport is impressed with the fuel economy of its new I-Shift Dual Clutch-equipped FH 540 6x2 tag-axle Globetrotter XL tractor unit.

A century of Commercial Motor magazines travels to Leyland in an MAN TGE

The MAN TGE 3.5-tonne panel van delivers a quality driving experience to rival its market-leading German rival, as we discover on a 600 mile road trip