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With just over four weeks to go until the awards spectacular (Friday 20 March), it gives the HeavyTorque team great pleasure to be able to announce the Shortlist for this year’s specialist transport awards, The Heavies 2020. The Heavies recognises and rewards industry excellence, innovation, ...
BIGGER, BETTER AND BACK: THE HEAVIES 2020 AT PETERBOROUGH ARENA While much of modern life seems confusing in the extreme and the uncertainty over the country’s future direction makes long-term planning difficult, Nimble Publishing, producer of the heavy transport industry’s only dedicated title ...
It is with regret, that the HeavyTorque team have decided to take a stand based on an industry-wide ‘blind eye’ to the waste in the magazine and periodicals business. HeavyTorque (#15, July 2018) was the final issue to grace the shop shelves, both on the High Street and across the ...
We are delighted to announce that The Heavies 2018 will be part of a new three-day specialist heavy transport festival; The Heavies & HeavyTorque LIVE! This will be the UK’s only dedicated events for the heavy and specialist transport sector bringing every aspect of this diverse and ...
HeavyTorque publishers, Nimble Publishing Ltd are delighted to advise that the very latest Heavy Transport Association Yearbook (2018), is now available to purchase. The Yearbook went to print yesterday morning, and all things being equal, we will be in a position to fulfil distribution early ...
Following months of blood, sweat and tears – we are delighted to announce the launch of HeavyTorque’s new full publishing website. There’s plenty of great content to whet everybodies whistle, from operator features to manufacturer spotlights and innovation, project reports and ...
Mammoet Russia performed the transport and installation of oversized components and metalwork units for the construction project of a delayed coker unit at JSC “Naftan” in Novopolotsk, Republic of Belarus. The work included five modules of preassembled metal works and two coke drums OJSC ...
In a glittering ceremony held at the Peterborough Arena, Volvo Trucks I-Shift with Crawler Gears automated transmission has won the ‘Innovation of the Year: Vehicle Manufacturer’ award at ‘The Heavies 2017’. ‘The Heavies’ event is organised and delivered by Nimble Media and HeavyTorque ...
Any Londoner will tell you, finding a place to park in capital is a nightmare. Cue leading crane rental provider, Hewden. The firm was recently asked to lift a £180,000 Ferrari onto the rooftop garden terrace of the Heron building where it was parked for a week. The lift was commissioned as ...
Goldhofer Aktiengesellschaft of Memmingen makes light work of heavy jobs. A case in point is the German company’s award-winning »MPA Axle Technology«, with the lightest independent suspension for heavy goods vehicles currently available on the market. For this groundbreaking innovation, for ...
At a joint event in Pfedelbach on Wednesday 25th June, the new SCHEUERLE STB 550 girder bridge, with a payload of 550 tonnes, was unveiled and officially handed to new owners Collett Transport. Presented by SCHEUERLE and TII Group, the impressive STB 550 is not only extraordinary due to its ...
