Iveco Stralis Truck News ( 8)

Logistics is no easy business. Forget the current driver shortage – the industry has been battling with this issue for many years already. Think about the pace of change as far as environmental issues are concerned.  Many logistics companies are investing in alternative propulsion technology as an opportunity and others because their customers are demanding…

Food companies produce food waste.  It’s a fact.  It is what happens to the waste that is important. Rot the waste down and use the gas to power trucks with, whist using the remaining solid waste as fertiliser – then you are making a massive impact on the business’ carbon footprint. This is what food…

Quite a coup for Iveco to get 29 tractor units into Royal Mail.  The fact that they are all powered by gas (Bio-CNG) is even more impressive. Over the course of coming weeks, the IVECO Stralis NP 460 CNG-fuelled trucks will be introduced to the Company’s fleet in the North West of England, in addition…

With local tipping work it’s all about payload, payload, payload.  Alongside dealer service, Totnes, Devon-based Jeremy Bishop Haulage says that the extra payload the Iveco Stralis X-Way is giving them is the main reason for buying Iveco. This means that the company has doubled its IVECO fleet by taking delivery of two Stralis X-WAY 26-tonne…

This is good news for the natural gas-powered truck initiative. If a haulage company buys the same truck again at the end of a 30-month contract, then it must have worked well. No small haulier can afford to be a charity or so altruistic that they are prepared to operate trucks that are not up…

No doubt buoyed by the shot in the arm for all online shopping throughout the COVID lockdown, Ocado are splashing out on some new trucks this year. Not a huge truck operator (plenty of vans thought), the company only has around 170 trucks.  However, the impressive statistic is that a third of the company’s trucks…

Iveco have been banging the ‘natural gas trucks’ drum for a few years now.  The company is focusing heavily on making their Stralis tractor unit range the number one for LNG and CNG operation across Europe.  This may be their strategy to get more Stralis tractor units on the road full stop, as the company…

The results of three months work since the joint agreement was signed between Iveco and Nikola to convert S-Way trucks into battery electric vehicles (BEV).  Perhaps we should start calling them Battery Electric Trucks (BET – sounds better than BEV)? So far they have released images of the scale model – or maquette – of…