Foreign truck drivers have handed over more than £17m to the taxpayer in the past four months thanks to a new charge. More than 618,000 levies have been purchased for over 112,000 vehicles from 76 different countries since the HGV Road User Levy was introduced in April – which has seen drivers coughing up enough cash to patch more than 320,000 potholes on our roads
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Trakm8, the AIM-listed designer, developer and manufacturer of GPRS based hardware and software for the vehicle placement and security market, has signed a further contract with the Kubota – the market leading manufacturer of tractor, groundcare and construction machinery solutions
Read More »IMS Limited, one of the leading distributors of premium products to the commercial vehicle market in the UK and Ireland, has appointed Craig Lawton to oversee fleet sales in Scotland and Northern Ireland
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Livestock haulage specialist, Chris Waite Transport, Driffield, East Yorkshire, has taken delivery of a Renault Range T 520 6 x2 rigid with sleeper cab. Supplied by the largest, privately owned Renault Trucks dealer group in the UK, Thompson Commercials Limited, the new Renault Range T is an addition to Chris Waite Transport’s 14-strong mixed Renault, Volvo and Scania fleet. The long standing relationship with Thompson Commercials, overall deal including price and previously favourable experiences with the Renault Premium were key factors in Chris Waite’s vehicle selection
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The first Volvo trucks to join the fleet of Roberts Bakery, a 12-tonne GVW FL and an 18-tonne GVW FE, have entered service with the company. Both trucks are Euro-6 compliant
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For more than 15 years, Lytx™ has been combining sophisticated data analysis with expert video review to provide commercial fleets with the tools to prevent collisions within their fleet. This unique approach from Lytx helps drivers become safer and reduces collision costs by an average of 50-80%
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A Michelin employee and his family are preparing to climb Mount Kilimanjaro in a bid to raise vital funds for international development charity Transaid
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Transport Exchange Group has upgraded the booking chain solution for its leading freight exchanges – Haulage Exchange and Courier Exchange – to provide member businesses with an improved means of managing and updating the status of loads when they carry out work on each other’s behalf. As a result, hauliers, couriers and logistics operators using the UK’s largest and fastest growing freight trading platform are now able to better monitor the complete lifecycle of inter-company transactions by automatically sharing key details with their trading partners in order to save time and money, improve confidence levels as well as boosting operational
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With one of the most innovative and feature-led websites within the commercial vehicle rental industry, Burnt Tree’s Refrigerental has developed further new customer focused features to add to its popular website www.refrigerental.co.uk
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TJ Hammond, based in Billericay and now approaching their 90th year in transport, has added a 13.6m multiple-access box van to its vehicle fleet which, says the company, will provide increased utilisation, faster and more flexible loading and improved cargo security
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