Dropside Truck News (9)

Blackburn-based JDS Trucks has delivered a trio of new 3.5-tonne Isuzu N35.125 Grafters into power network operator Electricity North West Services – the second stage in a seven-year project which will eventually see the company move its 30-strong grounds maintenance fleet to the Japanese manufacturer. Replacing older vehicles from another brand, Isuzu has now supplied…

Cambridgeshire-based Hire or Buy Group has taken delivery of a new Isuzu N75.150(E) from local dealer Arlesey Car and Commercials. Featuring specialist dropside bodywork, the versatile rigid builds on a long-standing relationship between the two businesses that has spanned more than a decade. Replacing an older truck supplied by another manufacturer, the 7.5-tonner joins a…

The only right-hand drive example in existence will debut at the popular charity event founded by Chris Evans Enthusiasts attending the popular Carfest family motoring festival (23 – 25 August 2024) will have the chance to get up close with the only right-hand drive IVECO Daily 4×4 Tigrotto in the world. Making its UK debut…

Builders’ merchant Jewson has taken delivery of 178 Iveco Daily 3.5-tonne dropsides (35C14) to support its nationwide network of 250 tool hire branches. A combination of Daily chassis cabs with 3,450mm and larger 3,750mm wheelbases (35C14) for longer loads join a hardworking nationwide fleet of 1,600 commercial vehicles. The Daily’s up to 3.5-tonne towing capacity…

Tool and equipment hire specialist Speedy Services has taken a big step towards a sustainable customer delivery model by commissioning its first two zero-emission FUSO eCanters. The trucks are already transporting products from the company’s range based at a depot near Whitehaven, Cumbria and a branch in Warrington, where it serves a client base comprised…

The Ferns Group has taken delivery of four new Iveco Daily 3.5T dropsides (35C14) that have joined its nationwide fleet of over 500 commercial vehicles. A new contract with BT Openreach generated the requirement for four new vehicles capable of carrying equipment, piping, and other tools necessary for rigorous 10–12-hour installations of new telecoms infrastructure….

For a company that usually builds houses it looks like their first attempt at building a truck body has gone well. That’s what Aberdeenshire-based Malcolm Allan Housebuilders has done in turning its hand to bodybuilding and assembled its own design of multi-functioning tipper and dropside body for its new Volvo FMX 460 8×4 Tridem with…

The arrival of the latest Isuzu dropside truck into the fleet of TIS (NGA) LTD, completes a programme of four new Isuzus, covering both 7.5 tonne and 3.5 tonne GVW, that have been delivered to the north-east company during 2021, literally doubling their overall fleet size within 12 months. Supplied by local Isuzu dealer Thompson…

They may look like a small truck, but Builders’ merchant Chelmsford Plastic Warehouse’s Mitsubishi Fuso Canters are 3.5 tonne vans. Finance Manager Sandra Garratt recalls: “We were running another type of vehicle prior to 2017, but then we bought our first Canter and have never looked back. It’s a better truck all round, and a…