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TRUCKING INDUSTRY * UK - Longer semi 'more likely' than B-train
London,UK -Road Transport -2 December 2009: -- Despite a very public effort by Lincolnshire-based haulier Denby Transport to test the law on longer, heavier vehicles (LHVs), the government is more likely to approve longer semi-trailers for UK roads, according to the trailer industry... Longer semi-trailers extend an artic length to the 18.35m currently allowed for a rigid unit towing a trailer with a drawbar coupling. Denby uses the 'B-train' approach, which has two couplings...* UK - VOSA forces Denby to abandon LHV trial
Lincolnshire,UK -Road Transport -2 December 2009: -- Denby Transport has been forced to abandon its planned trial of one of its innovative longer heavier vehicles (LHVs) after police and VOSA officials prevented the truck from leaving the company's depot... The Lincoln-based haulier had been looking to take one of its Eco-Link 25.25m (83ft) trailers for a half-hour run on a seven-mile stretch of the A46 last Tuesday morning without a government permit... However, as the truck drove through the gates, VOSA staff, accompanied by police officers, insisted that the trial be stopped in order for them to carry out a series of tests and measurements regarding its legality... The Department for Transport (DfT) rejected trials of such vehicles in a report released in 2008, on the grounds of safety and environmental impact... (Picture: Scania 25.25m roadtrain LHV operated by Denby Transport)* Sprinters are on the menu
Gloucester,UK -HGV UK -December 3, 2009: -- Creed Foodservice hit on a tasty solution to problems with unreliable vans – it switched to Mercedes-Benz... The company invested in three Mercedes Sprinter 315CDI Long vans... Creed Foodservice runs a fleet of 50 vehicles, most of them trucks with gross weights of up to 15 tonnes, from its headquarters in Cheltenham and a second depot in Nottingham... Labels: trucking industry news UK
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