Tarmac has placed an order with Renault Trucks for the first battery electric mixer truck in the UK. Due to be delivered in the autumn, the mixer will be put to work at Tarmac’s Washwood Heath site in Birmingham, supplying construction materials…
Yusen Logistics UK has extended its warehousing and distribution partnership with kitchen manufacturing giant Howdens with a new fleet of 21 vehicles. The Renault T Evolution 6×2 44-tonne tractor units will support the primary distribution opera…
Fashion retail logistics firm Advanced Supply Chain Group (ASCG) is taking delivery of 35 new Evolution Renault trucks. The 13-litre Renault T480s vehicles will make up 55% of ASCG’s fleet and have been supplied by Hexagon Leasing on contract le…
Geotab, which specialises in connecting CVs to the cloud, has announced a tie-in with Renault to combine vehicle telematics capabilities with its fleet management platform. It said this would provide a single point of access for van operators to…
Renault Trucks has launched a futuristic multimodal electric deliver vehicle that includes an e-cargo bike and a drone. The Renault Trucks E-Tech Master OptiModale is based on a 3.5 tonne LWB L3H1 E-Tech Master van with a low loader Luton body b…
A small boost to the Government’s £950m Rapid Charging Fund (RCF) could deliver enough capacity for on-route HGV charging and hydrogen refuelling at all motorway service areas (MSAs) in England, according to an analysis by National Grid. The RCF…
Europa Road has taken delivery of five new high spec Renault T range 6 x 2440 13 L trucks and will add another five to its 50-strong fleet in May. The move is part of an ongoing replacement strategy with the aim of renewing the whole artic fleet…
Commercial fleet services firm Fraikin has secured the lion’s share of Mitchell Potatoes’ fleet renewal programme with the delivery of 12 new trucks on a six-year, full-service contract hire agreement. The new additions join two 18-tonne DAF LFs…
Cambridgeshire-based Knowles Transport has taken delivery of the first Renault Trucks to join its 120-strong fleet. Two Renault T440 6x2s trucks, decked in Knowles’ orange livery and supplied by Renault Truck Commercials, have been added to the …
Independent Renault Trucks distributor Sparks Commercial Services is on an expansion drive across the South West with the acquisition of Renault Truck Commercials Exeter. The purchase sees the dealership rebranded as Sparks Commercials Exeter an…
Renault Trucks said it had seen “significant business growth” in 2021, with a 25% increase in vehicles invoiced, despite disruption to supplies. In its heavy and medium duty ranges there was a 27% increase in deliveries to 33,422 and there was a…
Yuill & Dodds has continued its partnership with Renault Trucks and put five C520 rigid tippers into service over the last 12 months. The 8×4 RK chassis were direct replacements for a similar group of 520hp Renaults that entered service in 2…
Renault Trucks expects 10% of all its new vehicle sales to be full electric within three years, with the UK leading the take-up in Europe, and exceeding this figure. “In fact, we feel that a quarter of all our sales [in the UK] could be electric…
MAN Truck & Bus UK has announced the appointment of Tracey Perry as its new head of van. She succeeds Daniel Holbein who is leaving the company to take up a new position in MAN’s headquarters in Munich. Perry comes with a wealth of experienc…