12th September 2018
Road Test: Mercedes-Benz Actros1
The Mercedes-Benz Mp4 Actros is one of the most significant trucks in the company’s history. It’s hard to believe the earliest examples are now six years old – but now Actros1 is here with an…
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6th September 2018
Mercedes-Benz launches New Actros
Mercedes-Benz has taken the wraps of it’s new Actros at a launch event in Berlin. The new truck boasts a 3-5 per cent boost to fuel economy, packs semi-autonomous driving systems and Active Brake Assist 5,…
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22nd August 2018
Scania restarts V8 production and sales
Scania has begun the “challenging process” of reducing its backlog of truck orders built up after a delivery and order stop caused by a lengthy strike at one of the manufacturer’s main casting suppliers. “This…
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15th August 2018
Scania P & L series review
Scania is targeting inner-city operators hard with its latest lighter-weight trucks. Here we put its all-new L and top-selling P cabs to the test Truck operations within city centres are becoming increasingly complex. Drivers venturing…
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1st August 2018
Freightlink lightens the load of trucking into Europe
If you’re finding yourself sat in a Truck Stop with your morning brew and bacon butty, ferry bound, ask yourself have you booked with Freightlink? If not; why? We know how difficult it can be…
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26th July 2018
New map reveals UK’s riskiest roads
A new map revealing the UK’s most dangerous roads has been produced using fatality data gathered by the Department of Transport and the Police Service of Northern Ireland over a five-year period. The map identifies…
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5th July 2018
Scania halts V8 sales & deliveries due to supplier strike
Scania has announced it is unable to fulfil its deliveries to customers of more than 2000 trucks ordered with V8 engines due to an ongoing strike at one of its crucial suppliers of cast engine components…
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22nd June 2018
Transport sector sees 96% drop in retained profits
Retained profits in the transport and logistics sector decreased by 96.0 per cent compared to the same period a year ago, according to new figures. In addition, the volume of bad debt owed to the…
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13th June 2018
Contraflow plans announced to ease Operation Stack
‘Operation Brock’ has been announced as a new temporary plan to ease traffic in Kent in the event of cross-Channel disruption. The interim plans, revealed in May by roads minister Jesse Norman, will allow traffic…
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13th June 2018
DVSA launches “phased approach” to specialist vehicle testing
DVSA is reminding operators a “significant number” of specialised heavy vehicles – including breakdown vehicles, tractor units pulling exempt trailers, and mobile cranes – have now fallen into scope of annual testing for the first time. To…
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13th June 2018
Brexit means “uncertain year ahead” for road transport
After a year of resilient trading in 2017, the UK’s logistics industry expects continued success in 2018 despite the uncertainties posed by Brexit and continued economic instability, according to a new report from the Freight…
