The Renault Trucks D earns a 4-star Euro NCAP rating
April 22, 2026
Meachers Global Logistics has expanded its fleet with six new specialist vehicles as part of a £1.5million investment programme designed to offer a wider range of services to customers.
Operation Brock – a Kent traffic management system intended to keep vehicles moving when there is disruption to travel across the English Channel – is leaving hundreds of HGV drivers stuck without access to basic hygiene facilities, food and water, according to Logistics UK, one of the UK’s biggest business groups.
As part of a programme of significant growth within its mixer truck fleet, specialist suppliers of Transport and Plant Hire services, Explore Transport Limited, has added Renault Trucks to its vehicle line-up for the first time.
Barclays and Clean Growth Fund (CGF), the UK venture capital fund, have co-invested £3m in Sunswap, a UK clean-technology company.
Peterborough-based AB Agri has strengthened its relationship with Volvo Trucks, with the pig and poultry feed manufacturing side of its business, ABN, taking on 12 new Volvo FM 460 Globetrotter 6×2 tractor units.
DAF Trucks has again topped 30% market share in the UK for trucks above 6.0-tonnes GVW. With a total of 31.1% in 2021, it is the third year in succession that DAF Trucks has exceeded 30% and is the company’s second highest ever share of the market after its 32% high-point in 2020.
Caledonian Logistics has ordered 35 Mercedes-Benz Actros trucks in rigid and tractor unit form from BLS Truck & Van.
Thousands of small hauliers are at breaking point and require emergency action to help keep them afloat, including a fuel duty freeze, an essential-user rebate and a 12-month delay to the red diesel rule changes, according to the RHA.
Production is now scheduled to start at the beginning of 2024 with the delivery of 200 units during the year part of that year.
The Department for Transport has confirmed the introduction of legislation that enables longer and more aerodynamic goods vehicles in the UK.
