Operational efficiency - the lean queens
Two concept tractor-trailer combinations unveiled recently have claimed massive advances in operational efficiency. How relevant are these claims to the realities of today’s operators? Peter Shakespeare investigates
Safety in numbers
Fleet engineers choosing from the array of competing money-saving interventions now have evidence-based, independent data on tap. Brian Tinham reports from the Centre for Sustainable Road Freight
Innovative trucks
As vulnerable road users and local residents rise up the agenda for operators in urban centres, truck specifications need to evolve. Brian Weatherley reports on two novel adaptations
Style icons
Modern trucks are a lot of things to a lot of drivers. So getting the balance between robustness, aerodynamics, safety and appearance is key. John Challen takes a look at how these factors are likely to change in the future
Secrets of success
The dividing line between assembly and bespoke manufacturing can get blurred, particularly with truck production. Ian Norwell reports from Lancashire's famous Leyland DAF plant
Evolution not revolution
The procession of new models from Europe's heavy truck makers continues. Latest to set a match to its touch paper is DAF. Ian Norwell reports from Andalusia
Concept to reality
In this second of our two-part IAA commercial vehicle event review, Brian Tinham, Peter Shakespeare and Steve Banner examine the showstoppers
Cutting carbon
Transport’s impact on air quality, particularly in city centres, has risen up the political agenda, LowCVP managing director Andy Eastlake told IRTE conference delegates. Steve Banner reports
CV Show: the main event
As this year’s CV Show gets underway at the NEC, Birmingham (14—16 April 2015), Brian Tinham and John Challen pick out more of the highlights on display at the UK’s greatest transport event of the year
DAFinitely better
While many truck makers were absent at Birmingham’s 2017 CV Show, market leader DAF took the wraps off a new UK managing director, and its new XF and CF models. Ian Norwell went to DAF’s home country of the Netherlands to look at the detail and get behind the wheel