German Cv Boost • Production Of Commercial Vehicles In West

Germany increased by 6.5% in 1988 to 409,550 units. Daimler-Benz sales improved by 6.4% and MAN's by 9.3%. Daimler-Benz has a 26% share of the CV market: 17% for trucks under......

Shotts L10 Milestone • Cummins Has Built Its 25,000th L10

engine at Shotts in Lanarkshire. This milestone marks seven years of L10 production at the plant. More than 15,000 engines have been fitted in UK truck chassis since manufacture......

Tyler Takes On Macpac Merc

• 'f he first MacPac 55 to be built on a Mercedes chassis has been bought by Roystonbased Tyler Environmental Services for its refuse collection contract with Runnymede Borough......

End-to-end Carpeting

• MAT Transport has put two revolutionary prototype high-volume carpet trailers into service on its regular runs between Belgium and Britain. The tri-axle trailers, built by......

Surnmerdale's Barbadians

• Birmingham-based Summerdale Truck Bodies has won a contract to supply four refrigerated vehicles to Pine] Dairies in Barbados. The 8m reefer bodies, built on tri-axle Leyland......

Telehoist's Expansion

• CV bodybuilder Telehoist of Cheltenham has won a contract for more than 400 skiploaders from Trio Containers of Newport Pagnell. Trio has placed orders for 20 CH303A skip.......

Steyr Unveils Green Machine

• Steyr Trucks (UK) is to unveil a "hushed and emission friendly" vehicle based on the Steyr 17S21 17-tonne two-axle rigid at the Institution of Road Transport Engineers annual......

Syren's Pulling Power

• This month's Association of Vehicle Recovery Operators show will feature the debut of one of the most powerful winch trucks ever seen in the UK. The Foden 6x6 has been fitted......