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The Toyota Proace City Electric review continues
|Date: 15 July, 2025

The Toyota Proace City Electric review continues
Professional Builder continues to chart our journey with our long-term loan vehicle – the Toyota Proace C ...
Professional Builder continues to chart our journey with our long-term loan vehicle – the Toyota Proace City Electric When you list the reasons why you might want to convert to a battery electric vehi ...
15 July, 2025
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Reviewing the Isuzu D-MAX
|Date: 11 October, 2024

Reviewing the Isuzu D-MAX
Professional Builder explores two of the trim levels of the Isuzu D-MAX It’s fair to say that some of th ...
Professional Builder explores two of the trim levels of the Isuzu D-MAX It’s fair to say that some of the higher spec pick-ups can be more fur coat than hi vis. Whilst they might have all the attribu ...
11 October, 2024
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ARMD reveals how thieves are breaking into trade vehicles
|Date: 18 December, 2023

ARMD reveals how thieves are breaking into trade vehicles
Traditional van alarms may not be up to the job, finds the vehicle and tool security expert UK businesses ...
Traditional van alarms may not be up to the job, finds the vehicle and tool security expert UK businesses reported £3.5 billion worth of stolen equipment last year and more than a third of van drivers ...
18 December, 2023
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Builders’ vehicles – November 2021
|Date: 18 November, 2021

Builders’ vehicles – November 2021
GENERAL PLANT RANGE There’s a choice of 14 fully configurable trailers in the Brian James Trailers Genera ...
GENERAL PLANT RANGE There’s a choice of 14 fully configurable trailers in the Brian James Trailers General Plant range, now available in single, twin and tri-axle variants. In addition, thanks to the ...
18 November, 2021
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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BUILDERS WHEELS: ISUZU GRAFTER
|Date: 29 May, 2018

BUILDERS WHEELS: ISUZU GRAFTER
Professional Builder’s Lee Jones keeps on trucking with the Isuzu Grafter Whilst the white van man might ...
Professional Builder’s Lee Jones keeps on trucking with the Isuzu Grafter Whilst the white van man might be the poster boy for the tradesman in the public imagination, nothing says builder quite like ...
29 May, 2018
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BUILDERS WHEELS: Isuzu D-Max
|Date: 9 December, 2017

BUILDERS WHEELS: Isuzu D-Max
They tell it how it is in Yorkshire, so where better to learn that, when it comes to the latest Isuzu D M ...
They tell it how it is in Yorkshire, so where better to learn that, when it comes to the latest Isuzu D Max pick up, beauty really is more than skin deep. It’s fair to say that throughout its various ...
9 December, 2017
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