Trailer Builder Moves Into Finance Deals

• Trailer builder Schmitz Cargobull is moving into the financing arena to offer leasing and contract hire. The German builder is teaming up with Dutch leasing and finance......

Steel Makes Alpha Toub On The Mu

by Peter Lawton Peden is beefing up the Alpha for muckaway work with steel rear suspension. The F520 set-up is designed to improve the Alpha's suitability for off-road work by......

Safetystop's Checkmate Helps Safety

m Commercial Motor incorrectly identified Checkmate as a supplier of reversing aids in a product round-up (CM 10-16 August). Checkmate is, in fact, the name of the reversing aid......

Fh16 Heavies For Heanor

11 Volvo is supplying four heavy-haulage FH168 to Heanor Haulage for work up to 300 tonnes. Delivered as 6x4s, all the Globetrotter cabbed units have pusher bars; Heanor's......

Capital Sale

Load handling specialist Partek Cargotec is selling its Norha refuse vehicle business to ports and engineering group Powell Duffryn. The sale will generate in the region of £8m......

Bonus Bricks

RDL Distribution is taking 9,000 bricks on each run with its new Alpha 6x2 rear-steer drawbar from Fallen. The 405hp Cummins 11-powered truck has a rear-mounted HMF1253 crane......

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Cool it! temperature-controlled vehicle rental is promising to have a vehicle ready on time or it will waive the first 24 hours' hire costs. The company is also opening a new......

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Road and Sea Express is trialling three Cartwright double-deck trailers on its operations between the UK and Ireland. If the trials go well Road and Sea Express will place an......

Paper Weights Central Weighing Is Supplying Newstrade...

with portable weighing equipment. Central is also supplying software which will transmit weighing data from each depot to a central point for analysis of the national operation.......