MAN Truck & Bus UK Ltd used the CV Show last month to introduce new product to the RHD market.

Scania’s new battery electric self-driving urban concept vehicle, revealed at the UITP Congress last month is designed with the flexibility to shift from ferrying commuters to and from work in mornings and evenings to delivering goods during the day and collecting refuse at night.

SAF-HOLLAND Group and Lohr Industrie, a specialist in truck bodies and trailers for transporting cars, have entered a strategic partnership to advance the development of electric trailer axles.

LDV UK & Ireland is planning to introduce the Yuejin truck range, a brand of the Shanghai-based vehicle manufacturer, SAIC, to the UK market later this year, according to Mark Barrett, LDV general manager UK & Ireland at the CV Show in Birmingham last month.

Hino Motors Corporation in April began construction of a new assembly plant in Khimki, near Moscow, to supply the local market with light and medium trucks.

DAF Trucks Ltd reported it retained its dominant position in the UK truck market for the 24th year in a row, ending 2018 with registrations of 11,373 vehicles to give it a 27.2% share of the market above 6.0 tonnes gross vehicle weight; these registrations and market share was according to Robin Easton, managing director of DAF Truck UK, speaking ahead of the CV Show in Birmingham last month.

Daimler Kamaz Rus, the joint venture between Daimler AG and Russian partner, PSJC Kamaz, has opened a new truck cab production facility in Naberezhnye Chelny.

Following the announcement in April 2018 by FX Meiller Fahrzeug-und Maschinenfabrik GmbH & Co KG it was investing EUR22m in a new tipper production facility at Oed-Öhling, Daniel Böhner, CEO, when visiting Tip-Ex 2019 in Harrogate last month, said the new plant would be ready to move into by November this year and start of production was scheduled for February next year.

Trailer brake specialist, Haldex AB, has announced it was working in close cooperation with a leading truck manufacturer to evaluate brake solutions for connected, autonomous, electric vehicles.

Daimler AG's proposed restructuring has been approved by a majority of its shareholders.

The Commercial Vehicle Show 2019 held in Birmingham in late April saw the Dublin-based distributor; LDV UK & Ireland Ltd unveil its second all-electric purpose-built van, the EV30.

Continental Tyre Group Ltd for the past nine months or so has been making its tyre pressure monitoring system (ContiPressureCheck system) available via Microlise’s on-board telematics in-cab display.