The Society of Motor Manufacturers has given a cautious welcome to the government’s plan to revive Reduced Pollution Certificates for Euro 5 trucks from October this year.
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Sainsbury’s has taken delivery of forty 3.5 tonne Mercedes reefers and has another fifty on order.
Just Vans (South West), a Frome-based Palletways member, has won a new £5m contract to deliver 8000 pallets a year to schools within a 75 mile radius of Frome.
Many large vans will need speed limiters from the new year to stop them exceeding 56mph.
Truck sales plummeted in October as the Euro 4 legislation came into force.
National Grid has renewed its fleet contract with Ford.
Macfarlane Transport Holdings has ordered 200 new curtainsided trailers from Schmitz Cargobull.
The Cartwright Group is supplying 206 curtainsiders to TDG between now and December.
German truck maker MAN is expected to launch a £6.4 billion takeover bid for Swedish rival Scania in a move that would make it Europe’s largest manufacturer of heavy commercial vehicles.
Bob Russett, chairman of the Palletline network from 1993 to 2005, has bought Palletline Distribution outright from his fellow shareholders.
