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July 2010
4 Comment
Crucial differences between commercial vehicles and cars.
We urge the government’s business secretary Vince Cable to listen at least as attentively to commercial vehicle manufacturers and operators as he evidently has been already to car-makers. A good starting point would be the SMMT’s “Heavy Goods Vehicle Ultra Low Carbon Strategy” report, outlined last month by Iveco’s UK product director Martin Flach. “We have available today the means of reducing carbon emissions,” the report concludes. “We need government to establish a coherent and long-term strategy to enable ultra-low-carbon technologies to reach the market, and the industry to be an active and central stakeholder to help guide ideas from a practical perspective.”
How likely is it that the business secretary and his government colleagues will respond constructively to such pleas? It could go either way.
4 Letters
From CFC Solutions managing director Neville Briggs on how driving licence checks seem to make drivers safer; Environmental Industries Commission policy director Danny Stevens on the opportunities missed in the government’s emergency budget; and Vehicle Builders and Repairers Association director general Malcolm Tagg on the skill-sets needed to repair modern vehicles.
5 News
How heavy, how fast, how close: latest DfT report on traffic speeds and congestion. Trailer-making ends again at Harelaw as Schmitz Cargobull retrenches. Wrightbus StreetLite midibus gets turned on. Double-top for Leyland Trucks in manufacturing awards. Van manufacturing at Luton hangs in the balance.
11 Spinning off, without losing control
What does the next five years hold for Iveco as part of the newly-formed Fiat Industrial division? Ian Norwell reports.
12 Equipping the operation
Truck market clouds and silver linings. Recession-beating expansion at a Surrey-based truck and van dealer.
13 Bullish as ever
FirstGroup chief executive and CILT (UK) president Sir Moir Lockhead does not mince his words on subjects such as youth unemployment, Euro-6 legislation, and phoenix companies. Tim Blakemore reports.
16 Equipping the operation
How Valx trailer axles are setting the cat among the pigeons.
18 Getting to grips with rolling resistance in the real world
Goodyear’s latest long-haul trailer tyre is out of the ordinary in several ways, not least its rolling resistance. David Wilcox explains.
21 People and jobs
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