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Pagid, one of the UK’s largest braking brands, in partnership with Euro Car Parts (ECP), has doubled the size of its specialist technical services team for the UK aftermarket with plans for further expansion later this year. Bolstered by the three new arrivals, the team now comprises six field-based, braking ...

The UK’s tyre safety awareness charity, TyreSafe, is inviting entries from tyre safety stakeholders for the eponymous Tyre Safety Awards 2018. Entries highlighting activities during 2017 are welcome from any organisation supporting the tyre safety awareness campaign and can span a range of initiatives from social media and online campaigns ...

Simon Blair, Managing Director of Stud Extract, offers some insight into what he feels is dangerous cost cutting that his company has noted in UK supply chains. Stud Extract is a leading original manufacturer of reconditioned HGV, PSV and trailer wheel hubs. With the worst of the winter weather now ...

This April, Autoinform LIVE will be returning north of the border, this time to Glasgow’s GTG Academy, bringing the UK’s biggest and best automotive training event back to garage owners and technicians in Scotland and the north of England. Taking place on the weekend of the 14th and 15th of ...

TOTAL UK has launched a new website (https://www.total.co.uk/), with improved features and functionality. According to the company, the core objectives for the new site were for it to be “more customer centric, solution and mobile orientated.” Two enhanced functions of the new site are ‘Find my Product’, a new and ...

Load handling specialists Hiab  have launched a ‘revolutionary’ new oil tank using Cyclone technology, which reduces oil usage, weight, space and running costs. According to Hiab, the patented technology is the first of its kind in the industry and introduces a ‘new generation’ of efficient hydraulic oil tanks. The tank ...

MAHLE has recently introduced seven additional filters to its Commercial Vehicle (CV) range, including three oil filters, two fuel filters, a cabin filter and an air filter. The fuel filter element, KX514D, offers coverage for MAN, and CLAAS, while the spin on fuel filter, KC522D, also covers MAN applications. In ...

It is now over three months since the Tyred Campaign to effectively force the ban of all tyres older than ten years on all commercial vehicles was officially launched in Liverpool. The campaign is led by Frances Molloy, following the death of her son Michael (18) and two other victims ...

The question of safety on our roads has always been considered a major issue and yet still tyres remain a product of concerning neglect from both dealers and drivers. A perfect example of this situation can be found in the case of Frances Molloy, whose son Michael tragically lost his ...

It is now 120 years since Herbert Frood invented the first “proper” brake lining and founded the world’s first brake lining manufacturing company. Until then brake linings were made from whatever was to hand be it wooden blocks, lengths of rope or leather strips from old boots! Since those days, ...