Manheim, one of the world’s largest and most successful vehicle remarketing company and
Has announced that it has taken 100 per cent ownership of the Glasgow Auction Centre.
Manheim Auctions, in Glasgow held a launch event week last week to mark the beginning of a new era for the company in Scotland following the recent transition to [...]

Luxury car-maker Porsche cannot extend the downturn as the German manufacturer has had to scales back worker hours.
In the first six months of the current year of business 2008/09 (1 August 2008 – 31 January 2009), sales have fallen. This has shown a decrease in revenues according to provisional figures of 14.3 per cent to [...]

Cybit has made its guide to Compliance & Road-Related Work Safety available at its website (www.cybit.co.uk) as a free download.
With the Health and Safety (Offenses) Act 2008 following the Corporate Manslaughter and Homicide Act 2007, it reinforces the need for both private and public sector companies to focus on Health and Safety, including work related [...]

The Highways Agency will be clearing vegetation on the verges near the Western Region Railway Bridge on the A404(M). This will allow access for bridge replacement works which are programmed to start later this summer. Some tree removal along the verges will be necessary, but will be kept to a minimum.
Replanting is planned for [...]

The UK’s largest car leasing firm, Lex has approached private equity firms to fund a buy-out of the business to ease parent company, Lloyds Banking Groups financial troubles, The Telegraph reports.
Lex has a motoring heritage dating back to 1928. Today over 20,000 businesses across the UK, including two thirds of FT-SE 100 companies, trust it [...]

Two major improvement schemes which will provide quicker, safer and more reliable journeys on the busy M27 – helping to boost the South Coast economy – were officially opened today by Transport Minister Andrew Adonis.
From this week – two months ahead of schedule – motorists have been fully benefitting from a £36 million scheme [...]

AA/Populus panel says "too many road signs"
Half of UK motorists think that there are too many road signs, according to the latest survey results1 from over 8,000 AA Populus panel members. More than one fifth strongly agreed that there were too many.
The AA warns that too many signs leads to information overload. Road sign [...]

Iveco and Stormont Truck & Van have secured a major fleet order for 53 new Iveco Eurocargos from Safetykleen, the UK’s market leading parts-washing company.
The deal marks one of the largest orders to be placed for Iveco’s new Eurocargo medium truck range, which now benefits from an automated EuroTronic transmission as standard on all 4×2 [...]

One of the UK’s largest commercial vehicle hire and rental fleet companies, TLS Vehicle Rental has launched a new online service to make van rental and leasing even easier.
www.van2go.co.uk gives retail and small business customers the ability to book online any vehicle from a car-derived van through panel vans of various sizes up to a [...]

The second Renault Trucks Adventure is moving ahead at great pace. The expedition, known at the Cape to Cape, is set to depart North Cape (Norway) on 1 March and arrive in Cape Town (South Africa) on 1 July 2009. For the 16 weeks of the expedition, six Kerax and six Sherpa units will brave [...]