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  • Pace Logistics chooses Renault Trucks

    on Dec 13, 16 • in UK • with Comments Off on Pace Logistics chooses Renault Trucks

    Following impressive fuel figures and excellent customer service, Manchester-based logistics experts, Pace Logistics, has once again selected Renault Trucks for the latest additions to its fleet. Two 44-tonne Range T460 6×2 tractor units have been supplied by JDS Trucks Ltd while a further seven 18-tonne Range D250 high with 28.5ft curtain-sides and tail lifts on order

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  • The Iron Knight v Volvo S60 Polestar TC1

    on Dec 13, 16 • in UK • with Comments Off on The Iron Knight v Volvo S60 Polestar TC1

    Volvo Trucks has published a ‘bonus-video’ about ‘The Iron Knight’, the world’s fastest truck – twice – racing against the winner of the FIA WTCC Race in Shanghai, China – the the Volvo S60 Polestar TC1.  

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  • Michelin expands X Line Energy truck tyre range 

    on Dec 12, 16 • in UK • with Comments Off on Michelin expands X Line Energy truck tyre range 

    Michelin has expanded its X Line Energy tyre range with the launch of six new fitments, which, according to the company ‘enables more truck fleets to benefit from its most fuel-efficient truck tyre generation’. 

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  • Dramatic motorcycle crash caught on SmartWitness fleet camera

    on Dec 8, 16 • in UK • with Comments Off on Dramatic motorcycle crash caught on SmartWitness fleet camera

    Dramatic new SmartWitness dashcam footage from a fleet client shows a biker come a cropper after a dangerous overtaking manoeuvre. The motorcyclist is thrown from his bike after a silver saloon car turns into his path just as he is overtaking a black Mercedes who is turning right at a road junction

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  • Ill-considered road safety plans could end up costing lives -warns RHA

    on Dec 7, 16 • in UK • with Comments Off on Ill-considered road safety plans could end up costing lives -warns RHA

    Reacting to the news that British Cycling has joined forces with The AA and pedestrian groups in calling for a ’universal’ rule to give way when turning in order create simpler, safer junctions for all road users, the Road Haulage Association (RHA) does not consider this to be the ‘way forward’

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  • Pall-Ex turns 20

    on Dec 6, 16 • in UK • with Comments Off on Pall-Ex turns 20

    Pall-Ex, the palletised freight network founded by acclaimed entrepreneur Hilary Devey CBE, is celebrating its 20th anniversary

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  • Goodyear introduces High Load version of fuel-frugal tyre

    on Dec 6, 16 • in UK • with Comments Off on Goodyear introduces High Load version of fuel-frugal tyre

    Goodyear is introducing a High Load version to its fuel-frugal FUELMAX T range of trailer tyres with EU tyre label ‘A’-grading in fuel efficiency

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  • Volvo Trucks launches new road-safety programme for cyclists

    on Dec 2, 16 • in UK • with Comments Off on Volvo Trucks launches new road-safety programme for cyclists

    Last month at the International Cycling Safety Conference in Bologna, Italy, Volvo Trucks launched its new global traffic safety campaign ‘See and Be Seen’ – a new initiative to improve safety awareness among unprotected, vulnerable road-users. With a new global training package this programme is directed at cyclists aged 12 years and above and is a continuation of Volvo’s successful traffic-safety training programme for young children, ‘Stop Look Wave’, which has been used for some years all over the world

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  • Paragon introduces dynamic user guide

    on Dec 1, 16 • in UK • with Comments Off on Paragon introduces dynamic user guide

    Paragon has launched the latest version of its award-winning interactive User Guide to help customers make the most of its market leading routing and scheduling software. The browser-based tool incorporates a host of clever support features including a sophisticated dynamic help function, which will initially be available for the recently-introduced Route Control application before being rolled out to other modules within Paragon’s transport planning system

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  • Hauliers will be hit by fuel price hikes – says RHA

    on Dec 1, 16 • in UK • with Comments Off on Hauliers will be hit by fuel price hikes – says RHA

    Motorists will not be the only ones hurt by a sharp rise in the price of fuel, hauliers will also be hit hard, according to the Freight Transport Association

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