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Packing specialist Lightning Packaging Supplies have added to their growing fleet with the latest Mercedes-Benz Sprinter recently being delivered to their Hatfield premises.

The National Association of Bodyshops (NAB) is calling on the Competition Markets Authority (CMA) to consider an emerging practice in the body repair industry whereby insurers and claims management companies are requiring data outputs from specified bodyshop management computer programmes that are currently not capable of being linked to each other.

Fleet managers are being offered a guide that claims to show them how to save fleet costs in nine hours at the CV Show.

Office Essentials has increased control over its vehicles and seen delivery times cut by over half since implementing Masternaut’s telematics solution.

A new project funded by Transport for London (TfL) will independently test blind spot safety technology, which can be fitted to Heavy Goods Vehicles (HGVs) to help reduce the risk of collisions between HGVs, pedestrians and cyclists.

The Volvo V60 Plug-in Hybrid is now also available in Volvo Cars’ R-Design specification.

The RAC is launching its first mobile electric charging system at GreenFleet Scotland to cater for the UK’s expanding electric vehicle (EV) market which now consists of more than 9,000 vehicles in the UK.

Seventy-one per cent of young drivers think they are better than the average driver, according to survey by Vision Critical and the Institute of Advanced Motorists (IAM), yet they are 2.5 times more likely to be involved in a serious crash.

Councils are being invited to bid for a share of a £168 million pothole fund to repair local roads, making them safer and smoother for motorists, cyclists and other road users.

Peter Davenport, group managing director of Motiva, has been selected as a regional finalist in the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year awards.