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If you are buying an eight wheel tipper that will spend a lot of its time in and out of quarries then you need to be sure that it’s tough enough for the job. Manchester-based O’Gara’s fleet is already 40% Volvo so they are familiar with the brand’s durability. To be doubly sure they have…

Best Tractor Units for High Payload Bulk Transport If your truck operation involves lots of short or regional distance, high payload journeys, the specification for the tractor unit that you use will be vastly different to the tractor unit working long haul. Driver comfort and space is of less importance, as the drivers are back…

There’s no dipping a toe into the water here. If you run a mixed fleet of trucks and vans, you may expect one of the diesel vans to be relaced with an electric version for work inside London. Not so for London-based premium drinks supplier The Drinks Club. The company has decided that replacing their…

Buying the right tractor unit for a job is not easy. No company makes a bad truck these days, so it often comes down to trying one or two for a while to test fully the product and the after sales support. It is exactly this type of approach that Iveco have hoped will succeed…

This looks like a proper test of an electric truck, no local lightweight work for the new Volvo FM Electric that’s heading to Chivas Brothers, one of Scotland’s leading Scotch whisky producers and makers of Chivas Regal and The Glenlivet. The company has delivery into service of Scotland’s first on-road all-electric tractor unit from Volvo…

The 2012 DAF LF55.300 on this week’s front cover certainly won’t win any beauty competitions, but it looks like a good workhorse and is heading for the GPSV sale online which closes on 26th May. Fitted with an Econ UniBody, it is a crossover truck that operates as a spreader in the Winter and a…

44 Tonne Long Haul Tractor Units With tractor units, there is no ‘one size fits all’ so we would need to look at the categories of operations that a tractor unit might be used for. We should also consider the best ‘new’ tractor unit and the best ‘used’. For example, there are hardly any DAF…

We will hopefully be seeing more and more of these news pieces where everyday companies sign up to buy new battery electric trucks. Up until now, most of the handful of electric trucks that have been sold in the UK have been bought by large PLCs with hundreds or thousands of diesel trucks or by…

If you are looking at the 7.5 tonne truck market for the first time, there is a reasonable choice of makes and models available – both new and used. We take a look at the best options for you, depending on the duty cycle the truck will be put to. First of all, regardless of…

Whilst a 2% saving sounds like good news, to benefit from Scania’s new CCAP system (Cruise Control with Active Prediction), the truck has to be used on hilly terrain and, of course, your drivers have to engage the system as often as possible. With a choice of ‘Eco levels’ available to them, an obvious choice…

Mercedes-Benz Trucks UK has teamed up with bodybuilder Solomon Commercials to launch Britain’s first fridge-bodied eActros electric truck. The 19-tonne GVW eActros made its debut at the ITT Hub event in Farnborough on 9 May. A fully operational vehicle, it will now be offered for live demonstrations to operators across the country. The truck is…

As of today, the answer to the question is – practically nowhere in the UK.  However, since you can’t buy a ‘proper’ 44 tone 6×2 artic any time soon – even for the half a million pound price tag that would come with it – perhaps that’s not a huge issue today because it is…

It’s a first this week. Keltruck and our production team were in such a rush to show off this beauty on the Truckpages front cover this week, they decided it could go in before appearing in their printed advert, on truckpages.co.uk and even before it hits Keltruck’s own website. So, if you want this top…

The MAN team in Munich have been busy.  They have put together a series of new technology aimed at safety and fuel improvements across their range.  Available immediately is the new suite of tech aimed at improving the life of the driver and other road users. At the top of the safety list is a…

Scania has successfully installed and tested a pilot megawatt charging system from ABB E-mobility, representing the next milestone in the development of an efficient, high-power charging solution for heavy-duty vehicles. The technology will enable half the charging time for heavy-duty vehicles. Developing a solution to fast charge these commercial electric vehicles, which will also deliver…

After learning that Volvo Trucks are testing their hydrogen fuel cell trucks on public roads and aim to have them in series production ‘in the second half of this decade’, DAF’s parent company, PACCAR have gone one step further. The company has revealed that, though an expansion in their joint effort with Toyota Motor North…

This is an easy question to answer, as Scania run year long competitions to find an overall ‘best dealer team’ plus a specific ‘Best Service Team’. Now the company has announced the winners of its 2022 awards. These award schemes are a fantastic idea to keep the whole network on their toes, striving for the…

We have already seen Volvo’s fuel cell trucks, but now the company is running them on public roads in a more major trial. This doesn’t mean that we will be seeing them available for sale any time soon – especially because there is practically nowhere to refuel them at present. However, Volvo does say that…

Renault Trucks, an experienced electric truck manufacturer for some nearly fifteen years, has launched the “Decarbonisation Academy“: a free e-learning platform open to everyone. It provides answers to the main questions asked by professionals, to help them think strategically and plan the transformation of their business with confidence. Years of Experience Nearly fifteen years ago,…

Volvo Trucks have sold an FMX tipper that has been wrapped in a ‘Coronation’ livery by the buyer, Wincanton-based Hopkins Estates. The new Volvo FMX 420 8×4 tipper’s special livery to mark King Charles III’s Coronation was put together by local firm Goodwin Graphics and features a specially-designed logo to commemorate the Coronation of King…