Enterprise Flex-E-Rent has become the first UK rental business to offer the highly specialist Multilift Commander container-handling HGV and is providing 14 vehicles to the joint venture between Eiffage, Kier, Ferrovial Construction and BAM Nutt…
A decision to reduce the size of HS2’s London terminus station at Euston means spoil will no longer be removed by rail and may have to be achieved with thousands of HGVs instead. In a written statement by the parliamentary under-secretary for st…
Oxford Properties’ West Midlands Interchange (WMI) site, which is set to launch in 2023, could create around 8,500 new jobs. Work is set to begin shortly on the project, after Oxford Properties and its partner Logistics Capital Partners (LCP), a…
Tesco has added two fully electric articulated HGVs to its fleet to transport food and other products 30 miles from the Wentloog rail terminal outside Cardiff to Tesco’s distribution centre in Magor in Wales. The two new 37-tonne DAF electric ve…
Revenues at Hargreaves Services fell by 7.9% in the year ending 31 May 2021, largely due to a delayed start to the HS2 contract. The group reported total revenues of £204.8m compared to £222.2m in the previous year, but chairman Roger McDowell s…
The most-struck railway bridges in the country have been revealed by Network Rail as it relaunches its “Wise Up, Size Up” campaign this week. The relaunched campaign is urging lorry drivers to check the height of their vehicles and bridges on ro…
A high-speed train derailment was avoided last week after a Tesco HGV struck a bridge in Plymouth, thanks to a “quick-acting” member of the public calling the emergency services. In a House of Lords debate following the incident, Baroness Watkin…
MV Commercial has opened a new depot in Chipping Norton, housing a changing stock of up to 30 vehicles as well as a sheltered servicing and valet marquee and office complex. The vehicle rental and sales specialist said the launch of its fifth si…