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Why buy new?  With almost immediate availability and a 20 month warranty, container haulier Vicovanu has put another brace of Mercedes Actros out to work after being impresseg with the fuel returns from its first five Mercedes tractor units.  All pre-owned Actros supplied under the Mercedes-Benz Certified banner, they wear an eye-catching, high-visibility green and…

To get a fully-built 8×4 hookloader inside a few months is no mean feat – especially a top brand with a Multilift hookloader body and VBG drawbar coupling. Thanks to a cancelled order and supplied by Paul McNicholas, Customer Solutions Manager at Thomas Hardie Commercials, that’s exactly what Manchester-based D Hughes Demolition managed in adding…

Farnborough Van & Truck Hire (FVTH) is one of the first UK operators to take DAF Trucks’ new DAF PowerLine fully automatic gearbox; part of a raft of driveline upgrades designed to deliver up to a 7% improvement in fuel economy for the market leader’s DAF LF range. At a special handover at Leyland Trucks,…

Euro Auctions have a 2013 Scania R560 heavy haulage 6×4 tractor unit on this week’s front page. Heading for the upcoming Leeds sale from 30th November to 3rd December, it is joined by a series of other tractor units and light commercials including a line up of unused Ford Transit welfare (mess) vans. On the…

If you have to drive through central London for a show, it’s best to do so in the greenest vehicle available. That’s why Iveco got involved in the Lord Mayor’s show once more.Dating back to the early 13th century, The Lord Mayor’s Show is steeped in history, and in 2022 IVECO took part in the…

Midlands-based Hartshorne Group has won the title of Volvo Trucks UK & Ireland Dealer of the Year 2022, as well as collecting the hotly contested New Vehicle Sales Award. The independent business, which operates from sites in Alfreton, Birmingham, Burton, Nottingham, Potteries, Shrewsbury and Walsall, was presented with the two awards at Volvo Trucks’ annual…

If you need a van that’s designed to be more like a truck then you might want to consider the same choice as paving company, Perfect Pave, and try out a new Fuso Canter at 3.5 tonnes GVW. “A no-nonsense workhorse, that’s what we need and that’s what we get with the FUSO Canter.” So…

A workwear specialist has broken with its previous policy of sourcing trucks from more than one manufacturer by placing a single, landmark order for Mercedes Atego trucks. Johnsons Workwear is already running the first dozen of the 60 new trucks that Ciceley Commercials is supplying. Not only does the operator’s revised acquisition strategy mean that…

CVA’s auction for Expert Distribution’s sale on Saturday 19th November provides the content for this week’s front cover. there is a range of Volvo tractor units – a choice of rear lift or midlift with ages from 2014 to 2016 plus a whole range of trailers including extenders. CVA’s usual sale on the 15th November…

A further 85 IVECO Eurocargo Impact Protection Vehicles (IPVs) and 3.5 and 7.2-tonne Daily traffic management vehicles are in production as the IVECO chassis helps traffic management specialist Blakedale keep its customers safe as they maintain UK roads. This comes at a time when Blakedale has just delivered its 220th customer IVECO, a figure set…

Waste-water specialist Universal Tanker Group has taken delivery of the first of a total order of 38 new Volvo FMX rigid trucks that are set to join its rapidly expanding fleet throughout the next 12 months. The business has experienced significant growth over the past few years and now operates a fleet of more than…

When Best UK Transport needed another concrete mixer truck for work in and around London, owner-driver Andrei Balean returned without hesitation for a second eight-wheeled Mercedes-Benz Econic. “For this application there’s nothing to touch the Econic,” he said. “It combines the reliable, cost-effective performance for which Mercedes-Benz is renowned, with fantastic visibility from the low-entry…

It is important for continuity of supply and quality control to have as much manufacturing of core components in-house. That’s what Scania have been planning with their new manufacturing line for the cables for battery electric trucks. Scania have therefore made an important step on the journey towards in-house production of electric vehicles in Södertälje….

Saturday 12th November sees a large sale from CVA and taking pride of place is the star of this week’s front cover, a 2018 Volvo FH500 6×2 tractor unit complete with a Fassi F455 5 extension crane. The truck is being offered alongside an unusual Volvo FH16.650 tridem tipper that will make the perfect truck…

Thompson Commercials have been an Isuzu Truck dealer since 2012, covering Humberside, North Yorkshire, Teesside, County Durham and Tyne & Wear, and this relationship continues to grow with the announcement that Isuzu Truck has now appointed the company as full Isuzu Truck Dealers for the Sheffield and South Yorkshire area, with immediate effect. At the…

McLaren truck driver Ian Hodges has been reunited with the 25-year-old Mercedes-Benz Actros tractor unit he once piloted to race circuits throughout Europe, thanks to the stunning efforts of ace restorer Dominic Newby. Ian joined the Formula One outfit in 1997, the year in which the very first examples of the truck range hit UK…

Platts Transport has taken delivery of three new Volvo FH 500 with I-Save Globetrotter XL 6×2 tractor units – citing driver comfort, fuel efficiency and superb aftersales support as key reasons behind the order. The Wrexham-based business will use the trucks to distribute raw materials for sister company Platts Agriculture, as well as other general…

Carmarthenshire haulier M&M Greene has marked its 40th anniversary by commissioning a very special Mercedes-Benz flagship. Euro Commercials was proposing to use the Actros L for demonstration purposes… until it took the highly-specified tractor unit to the Convoy Cymru truck show, which was held in May at the Pembrey Circuit, near Llanelli. So impressed were…

Husband-and-wife team Paul and Karen Taylor owners of Surrey-based arboricultural business English Oak, have bought both of their new 3.5-tonne Canters this year from Mertrux Truck & Van. The latest, which has just arrived, is the first from the all-new Canter range that the East Midlands Dealer has supplied. Clearly distinguished from the outgoing model…

Check out the new 2022 MAN TGX 33.510 6×4 tractor unit with a plated weight of 65 tonnes. Fitted with a PTO, this truck is available immediately from Manchetts in Cambridgeshire. The truck is advertised on page 15 alongside a series of late MAN tippers and crane trucks. Turning to the outside back cover, Bickfords…