builders vehicles Archives - Professional Builder

Customer trials of Ford E-Transit begin

|Date: 30 August, 2021

Customer trials of Ford E-Transit begin

Ford has commenced customer trials of its E-Transit ahead of the van’s official sales launch in spring 20 ...

Ford has commenced customer trials of its E-Transit ahead of the van’s official sales launch in spring 2022, according to The Energyst. A total of ten E-Transit prototypes are currently being used acr ...

30 August, 2021
Read more
New updates to the Isuzu D-Max

|Date: 18 August, 2021

New updates to the Isuzu D-Max

The sands of time may have surprisingly run out for some big name players in the UK pick up market but th ...

The sands of time may have surprisingly run out for some big name players in the UK pick up market but the tide is definitely turning for Isuzu and its all new D-Max. It might have been the mountains ...

18 August, 2021
Read more
Builders’ vehicles – July/August 2021

|Date: 9 August, 2021

Builders’ vehicles – July/August 2021

SAFETY SYSTEMS According to new testing by independent vehicle safety authority Euro NCAP, Ford Transit a ...

SAFETY SYSTEMS According to new testing by independent vehicle safety authority Euro NCAP, Ford Transit and Custom are two of the top-performing vans for active safety. Transit received a Gold award f ...

9 August, 2021
Read more
Webfleet Solutions latest ‘connected van’ technology

|Date: 10 March, 2021

Webfleet Solutions latest ‘connected van’ technology

Beverley Wise, Sales & Marketing Director, Webfleet Solutions UKI, explains how the latest ‘connected ...

Beverley Wise, Sales & Marketing Director, Webfleet Solutions UKI, explains how the latest ‘connected van’ technology can help professional builders to work faster, smarter and safer. With the lat ...

10 March, 2021
Read more
Testing out the SsangYong LWB Musso Rhino

|Date: 10 February, 2021

Testing out the SsangYong LWB Musso Rhino

Our long term loan SsangYong LWB Musso Rhino takes centre stage for a final encore. Twitching curtains, t ...

Our long term loan SsangYong LWB Musso Rhino takes centre stage for a final encore. Twitching curtains, that’s how our legendary tester Charles Godfrey would memorably begin m any of his must read rep ...

10 February, 2021
Read more
Professional Builder’s Terry Smith gets acquainted with the new SsangYong Musso

|Date: 24 August, 2020

Professional Builder’s Terry Smith gets acquainted with the new SsangYong Musso

A couple of days before full lockdown we took delivery of a brand new, shiny, Atlantic blue, top-of-the-r ...

A couple of days before full lockdown we took delivery of a brand new, shiny, Atlantic blue, top-of-the-range SsangYong Musso 4x4 Rhino, the South Korean’s latest statement of intent to secure a footh ...

24 August, 2020
Read more
The Ranger Thunder from Ford

|Date: 27 May, 2020

The Ranger Thunder from Ford

The new Ford Ranger Thunder is now available to order for late summer delivery. Limited to 1,400 examples ...

The new Ford Ranger Thunder is now available to order for late summer delivery. Limited to 1,400 examples for the UK and 30 for Ireland, Ranger Thunder adds exclusive interior and exterior design to t ...

27 May, 2020
Read more
The TGE line-up from MAN Truck & Bus

|Date: 25 February, 2020

The TGE line-up from MAN Truck & Bus

If you are in the market for a compact tipper, skip loader or dropside truck, MAN Truck & Bus has rec ...

If you are in the market for a compact tipper, skip loader or dropside truck, MAN Truck & Bus has recently added to the range of vehicles on offer, as Dan Gilkes reports. The company now offers it ...

25 February, 2020
Read more
The Price of Not Having an Electric Van

|Date: 24 September, 2018

The Price of Not Having an Electric Van

Wilsons share their perspective on the latest developments in electric vehicles for tradespeople. The UK’ ...

Wilsons share their perspective on the latest developments in electric vehicles for tradespeople. The UK’s first ‘Electric Streets’ are now in operation in East London. This groundbreaking scheme plac ...

24 September, 2018
Read more
BUILDERS WHEELS: Iveco Daily

|Date: 3 July, 2018

BUILDERS WHEELS: Iveco Daily

Professional Builder’s Lee Jones finds that a test drive in an Iveco Daily is certainly not a grind Even ...

Professional Builder’s Lee Jones finds that a test drive in an Iveco Daily is certainly not a grind Even a brief encounter with the drive quality of the Daily will reveal that this is a manufacturer t ...

3 July, 2018
Read more