Steve Hobson

Thomas van Mourik collecting the MT Service to Industry Award 2020 Motor Transport caught up with Glyn Davies recently and amongst other things the subject of Culina came up. Davies was quite clearly upset and disappointed by what had taken place last year. In his view there ...

Certas Energy is the UK's largest independent distributor of fuel and lubricants in the UK, with a diverse customer base spanning rural residential customers, small, medium and large businesses and farms. It has specialist sector teams for marine, fuel retailing and lubricant customers and, in the road ...

John Lewis Partnership (JLP) picked up the Motor Transport Low Carbon Award for the third time in the last seven years in 2024. Its winning entry stated: "As a responsible retailer we must reduce our consumption, find renewable alternatives, and look critically at our impact across our ...

The use of renewable fuels such as hydrotreated vegetable oil (HVO) to cut carbon emissions from diesel trucks now rather than waiting for battery electric vehicles to develop into a more practical solution is becoming increasingly popular.

Battery electric vehicles are sometimes regarded as new-fangled devices but they were first seen on the roads of Europe in the 1890s and in the 1960s the UK had the world's largest fleet of BEVs in the days when electric milk floats were a common sight on every street. Today ...

The sixth annual 'Road to zero' report from vehicle rental association the BVRLA painted a gloomy picture of the progress toward zero-emission commercial vehicles, though it said the "future looks brighter" for electric trucks as a result of the government-funded 'Zero emission HGV and infrastructure demonstrator' (Zehid) programme.

SDC Trailers was established 45 years ago by welder and fabricator Seamus McCloy in a tin shed small unit beside his house in the village of Bellaghy, Northern Ireland.

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It is not often MT gets to interview three recent winners of the Motor Transport Service to Industry Award who between them have almost 150 years' experience in the transport industry.

Blackburn-based electric truck maker Electra Commercial Vehicles, winner of the 2020 Motor Transport Innovation Award, is continuing to develop its range of battery electric vehicles and looking to move to a bigger factory as it ramps up production. MD Ben Smith tells Steve Hobson about his plans.