Author: James Dixon

Another battery-electric Mercedes-Benz eActros starts practical testing at Remondis in Cologne. The leading company for recycling and water management as well as municipal and industrial services is operating a 25-tonne truck with a range of around 200 km in its waste management business as part of the so-called waste container service – the transportation of

Cosgrove Transport, which operates out of Limerick and Dublin, has taken delivery of five new Scania 450S trucks from Nolans Scania in Co Kerry. Seamus Burke at Nolans Scania said: “No better way to end a very successful week than to watch these fabulous looking 450S trucks leaving our yard in Castleisland to join Cosgrave

DT Spare Parts is celebrating the second anniversary of its Premium Shop. Since 2018, the Premium Shop has been rewarding its users for their brand loyalty. Over the past two years, DT Spare Parts has continuously expanded the range of rewards in order to offer members new benefit. Recently, around 500 new digital vouchers from

Attendees at the virtual Commercial Motor Show were given the chance to see first-hand how Lytx machine vision and artificial intelligence-powered solutions help equip fleet managers with the tools to proactively tackle some of the toughest problems facing their drivers today, such as distracted driving. Damian Penney, vice president of Lytx Europe, said: “2020 has

Mercedes-Benz is to offer its Sideguard Assist safety feature on right-hand-drive Actros and Arocs from June 2021. The manufacturer first launched it in mainland Europe in 2016. The system, which detects obstacles in a vehicle’s nearside blindspot and alerts the driver of a potential collision, had previously only been available on right-hand-drive Econic. It is

Following receipt of a letter from Michael Gove MP, detailing UK government’s “reasonable worst-case scenario” planning, the Road Haulage Association (RHA) remains extremely sceptical about its government’s readiness for the end of the Brexit transition period. It says that between 30-50 per cent of trucks crossing the Channel won’t be ready for the new regulations

Cartwright Group, one of the UK’s leading trailer, commercial vehicle body and conversion manufacturers has entered administration, with 480 jobs said to be lost. Michael Magnay and Dan Smith, restructuring partners at Deloitte, are overseeing the administration process and have completed a sale of the business and assets of Cartwright Fleet Services and Cartwright Rentals

The Freight Transport Association (FTA) Ireland is hosting several training courses from now until the end of the year. The zoom training courses are aimed at transport managers, fleet managers and transport schedulers, and include Covid-19 training, management of EU drivers hours, and more. The FTA Ireland is also offering the chance to obtain the

Knowing which lane to use on a motorway is key to reducing risk and congestion, according to breakdown and road safety organisation GEM Motoring Assist. The reminder follows the recent announcement that some stretches of motorway in the UK are to have their speed limits reduced in a trial to reduce pollution. In general motorways

The DAF CF and XF model ranges have won the prestigious international Good Design Awards for their ‘outstanding design and innovation’. 9 The accolade in the Product Design Automotive and Transport category is granted by a jury of no less than 55 members of the Australian based Good Design Award organisation. DAF Trucks introduced the

DAF Trucks is outlining its sustainability strategy in the lead up to this month’s Commercial Motor Show 2020, and in anticipation of the UK government’s publication this autumn of its Transport Decarbonisation Plan. In a recently released video titled ‘on the road to even cleaner road transport’, DAF director of product development, Ron Borsboom explains