Greenarc, a leading provider of traditional fuel and clean energy services, is thrilled to announce the unveiling of Lancashire’s first-ever Hydrotreated Vegetable Oil (HVO) pump. This occasion was celebrated with a ribbon-cutting ceremony held at Greenarc’s depot in Padiham. Greenarc’s valued customer, Greenhaul, a leading haulage company, was the first business to utilise the new HVO pump. Their HGV truck became the very first vehicle in Lancashire to be filled with this 100% renewable diesel, that reduces carbon emissions by up to 90% at the Padiham site. “We’re excited to be part of this i ..read more

The first fully electric Heavy Goods Vehicles (eHGVs) have been delivered under the Electric Freightway programme to A.F. Blakemore & Son, one of the UK’s largest privately owned family businesses operating across the retail and foodservice sectors. Electric Freightway is part of the Zero Emission HGV and Infrastructure Demonstrator Programme. Funded by the Department for Transport and delivered in partnership with Innovate UK, it is attempting to lay the foundations for a nationwide charging network for electric trucks. A.F. Blakemore & Son is one of 33 consortium members taking part ..read more

Rivus HGV, a subsidiary of Rivus Group, has been appointed by DHL eCommerce UK in a new five-year contract starting August 2024. The appointment sees Rivus HGV exclusively provide repair and maintenance services on 733 DHL eCommerce trailers at a purpose-built Vehicle Maintenance Unit (VMU) in Ryton-on-Dunsmore. This will be inclusive of preparation and presentation for MOT and LOLER tests and management of the R&M schedule to increase operational efficiency. It is expected around 25 jobs will be created for the area in provision of this service. Rivus has been managing some of the UK’s mo ..read more

Castrol has launched a new product under its VECTON commercial vehicle lubricant range that meets the Association of European Automobile Manufacturers’ (ACEA) 2022 specifications for Heavy-Duty (HD) engines*. Castrol VECTON LONG DRAIN 5W-30 E6/E9 is a fully synthetic engine oil formulated to lubricate and protect heavy duty vehicles for longer, while meeting all regulatory and performance requirements across Europe. The new product replaces VECTON FUEL SAVER 5W-30 E6/E9 in Castrol’s line-up and offers an upgraded specification profile including the new ACEA HD specifications E8 and E11. These ..read more

Called Project JOLT – standing for Joint Operator Logistics Trial – the programme is led by The Centre for Sustainable Road Freight (SRF) and involves partners including John Lewis Partnership, Volvo Trucks UK, and Flexible Power Systems, a software company specialising in fleet management optimisation software for electric vehicles. The electrification of the UK’s commercial fleets needs to happen urgently. Freight is hugely important; it contributed £13.6 billion to the economy in 2022*. 98% of our food and agricultural products are carried by road, mostly on HGVs. However, HGVs also ac ..read more

MAN has become the first commercial vehicle manufacturer to send an autonomous truck onto the German motorway. On board of the test truck, which drove around ten kilometres on the A9 between the Allershausen and Fürholzen junctions, were Federal Transport Minister Dr Volker Wissing and MAN CEO Alexander Vlaskamp. MAN has been intensively driving forward the development of autonomous trucks for use in logistics hubs and for hub-to-hub traffic on motorways for some time and recently became the first commercial vehicle manufacturer to receive a Level 4 test permit based on the law on autonomous d ..read more

Euro NCAP today (24th April 2024) officially announces a major milestone in the development towards a Truck Safe rating scheme. This is in direct response to data showing that while trucks represent only 3% of vehicles on Europe’s roads, they are involved in almost 15% of all EU road fatalities. At NCAP24 in front of an audience of international road safety experts and industry, Euro NCAP will showcase what elements the organisation is currently considering as part of a future Truck Safe rating and how it intends to evaluate and benchmark truck performance. Trucks play a vital role in a v ..read more

Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, in Sweden, have developed a new truck front concept to significantly reduce fatal crashes in car-truck collisions. The new truck front comes after the EU regulations for the maximum length of a truck were lifted. Crash tests on the new truck front were carried out by the Swedish Transport Administration, Trafikverket, and show that better truck designs can reduce passenger car compartment deformations by 30-60 percent. This reduces the risk of injury and possible death for the car occupants. Fatal crashes between heavy goods vehicles (HGVs) and ..read more

The arrival of GRS Group’s latest batch of Mercedes-Benz trucks means the operator is now running the country’s biggest fleet of low-entry Econic tippers. The three new trucks take GRS Group’s Econic line-up to 15 – all are 3235 models, and were delivered by Dealers Motus Truck & Van and Sparshatt Truck & Van. Based at depots in Rainham, Kent, and Bow, East London, they are currently working full-time on construction projects in Central London related to the HS2 high-speed rail link. They were chosen for the unrivalled field of view offered from the driver’s seat, a key factor in ..read more

AccessXL, part of XL Global Group and a leader in the design and manufacture of hydraulic lifts for commercial vehicles, is delighted to announce a new partnership with PALFINGER. In January this year, AccessXL acquired the Intellectual Property rights for manufacture and distribution of the PALFINGER ‘V-Lift’ product range.  Furthermore, AccessXL, at the same time became the exclusive UK distributor for all PALFINGER chassis-mounted tail lifts including cantilever, retractable and foldable. Already well established as a leading provider of column, retractable, multi-deck, refuse and pass ..read more