The Freight Transport Association has launched FTA Ireland at a ceremony held at Dublin Castle with founding members including prominent Irish businesses and transport companies.
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Leyland Trucks, which makes DAF commercial vehicles, has won Best Overall Business at the 2010 Manufacturing Excellence Awards
DHL Supply Chain and London Stansted Airport have signed agreements to participate in Hydrogen On Site Trials of ITM Power’s transportable high pressure refuelling unit HFuel
UK property services company PH Jones is taking delivery of 850 Citroen Berlingo and Dispatch vans as part of a total replacement of its fleet
Ipswich-based GMA Warehousing and Transport has set up a new operation at Felixstowe to focus on short sea trailer work and deep sea container business
Trailer manufacturer Cartwright has turned to computational fluid dynamics, commonly used in Formula 1 car design, for its new Cheetah Fastback trailer
Cummins, the world’s largest independent designer and manufacturer of diesel engines for commercial vehicles, is to develop Euro 6 engines at its Darlington plant from January 2013.
Eaton hybrid commercial vehicles have now completed more than 30 million miles saving, the company calculates, some 1.18 million gallons of diesel – equivalent to the emission of about 12,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide.
Hermes is trialling two commercial vehicles with Bevan21 aerodynamic bodies, which promise fuel savings of more than 15 per cent, to measure their effectiveness.
Demand for new vans rose by 8.81 per cent to 8,978 in February.
