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If you a re sending a truck off to the Black Sea for a couple of weeks, you need to make sure it’s a good one. Melksham-based Broughton Transport is putting its trust into a Volvo FH500 pusher axle for this work – and has designed the truck’s specification to get the job done in…

With 149 out of their total of 150 trucks wearing the three-pointed star, it’s clear that the Bartrum  Group are fans of the Mercedes brand. This relationship with Mercedes dealer, Orwell Truck & Van, has been underlined through the addition of twenty new Actros tractor units that join eleven that arrived late last year. Future…

Farrall Group have become a true MAN fan.  Just three years from the start of buying MAN trucks, they have just taken delivery of their first New Generation MAN TGX tractors and two new MAN TGE 3.5 tonne vans. The new TGX tractors, both 26.470 6×2’s with mid-lift axles and GM cabs, are eye-catchers in…

Things are looking positive for Volvo Trucks. They managed to break into an 18-strong fleet with one new FH last year – the first Volvo for ten years – which has just been followed by the delivery of a second FH with I-Save. P Harper & Sons was obviously impressed with the fuel figures returned…

Keep your neighbours happy – especially if you run a waste transfer business.  That’s what the new 16-tonne Volvo FL we be doing for Bury-based ISM Waste. In addition to cleaning neighbouring streets,  the FL road sweeper will be keeping its waste transfer facility and yard clean and tidy. The new 16-tonne sweeper has been…

A privately owned group of companies has been snapping up a series of Mercedes Actros trucks across their range of businesses – from low loader work to general distribution to the manufacture of heat exchangers. The latest purchase for the group was a 65-tonne, tag-axled Actros tractor unit is now in service with Poole Process…

It makes perfect sense for a council to buy the truck that is safest to use – especially when the truck is involved with erecting safety cones and other traffic management duties. That’s what Cardiff Council procurement chiefs did when they ordered two new Mercedes-Benz Econics to help traffic flow smoothly in and around the…

Following last week’s news of a 340k DAF XF Wrecker going to Alpha Recovery, this week we get the news of a new £350k DAF CF recovery truck conversion delivered to North-west truck recovery specialist, Jackson’s Recovery. The 80-tonne DAF CF 530 eight-wheeler is the company’s new fleet flagship truck and will sit alongside their…

Looking not much larger than a 7.5 tonner, South-West-based Apex Scaffolding‘s new 11-tonne Isuzu F110.210 has a body and payload allowance of just under 7.5 tonnes. This gives the truck a huge advantage over a standard 7.5 tonne truck, carrying around twice the payload in a truck that looks largely the same. Apex Scaffolding has…

From small seeds… So goes the saying, but it appears to be true for MAN Trucks and Northampton based Wreford’s Transport. As a result of a successful seed demonstrator vehicle back in the giddy days of 2019, the company bought ten MAN trucks in 2020 and have just taken delivery of their first of the…

Taking a step to move away from a solus supplier after 28 years is a large one.  That’s just what North Powys-based family business, R. Keith Price Haulage Limited, has done.  After being increasingly dissatisfied with their existing supplier’s service, Renault Trucks came to the rescue via – of all things – Facebook. The company…

If you only run one truck and only replace it every twelve years, it is a significant event when it’s time to buy a new one. So totally changing brand to one never tried before was a big move for Bradford-based Russell Stone Merchants.  They have just has taken delivery of their first ever Volvo…

It’s some shopping list that gets the price of your new truck up to 340,000. That’s what commercial vehicle recovery specialist, Alpha Recovery in Northumberland has invested in their new wrecker – a 150-tonne GTW DAF XF eight-wheeler with Super Space Cab and recovery equipment from Boniface Engineering. That’s not all on their list, however….

It’s worth publishing this news piece on the strength of the images alone.  Even a cyclist would appreciate the look of these trucks – a credit to the designers and the way the extras have been applied sympathetically to the truck’s original design. The 15 Volvo FH500 Unlimited 6×2 tractor units, all fitted with I-Save…

It sounds like a lot of hard work has paid off for Intercounty’s Truck Sales Executive Amit Verma, beating the competition to a ten truck order. The buyer, WH Barley, quoted reliable, cost-effective performance from its previous Mercedes-Benz Actros, as well as Amit’s persuasive sales pitch as being instrumental in convincing the Milton Keynes-based firm…

It’s a start, adding one I-Save version of Volvo’s FH tractor unit out of a total order of nine new Volvo FH trucks. Unlike Maritime Transport who has just ordered 275 of the new-generation FH with I-Save, Fresh produce supplier Stewarts of Tayside has taken delivery of nine new Volvo FH 500 6×2 Globetrotter XL…

A four tonne plus payload was the most important criteria for choosing a 7.5 tonner to carry completed ambulances for delivery. Specialist vehicle converter Blue Light Services needed a new delivery vehicle to carry its finished ambulances from its production facilities to customers and the Isuzu N75 came up trumps – the company’s first ever…

If you want to check out what’s new in the world of plant and quarrying while sitting at your desk, then check out the Hillhead Digital exhibition & seminars where you will see DAF showing off their construction range on the 30th and 31st March. Hillhead Digital will enable people from across the construction sector…

If you have bought lots of MAN trucks since 1992 then you get an invite to the New Truck Generation sneak preview event in Munich in October 2019 , pre-launch of the TG Truck range in February (2020) in Bilbao, Spain.  With a place on this event and you could place a pre-production order for…

Every company has differing reasons to buy a truck.  Ground clearance is a great reason if you run a fleet of trucks on demolition work.  Up until now, we’d never heard of the size of the front panel to write your company name on as being key.  Still, if everything else about the truck and…