News - Page 1514

Fleet managers are being urged to team up with emergency services and road safety organisations to help develop a safe driving culture internally and become ambassadors for road safety.

Cutting fleet operating costs and reducing health and safety risk exposure for their employers are the two key issues that are dominating fleet decision-makers’ work loads.

The UK's first bioethanol plant in Wissington, Norfolk has been opened.

Lombard Vehicle Management (LVM) is introducing a new procurement strategy focused on dealership and distribution.

The countdown has begun for entries for the RoSPA Occupational Health and Safety Awards, which honoured around 100 transport, storage and distribution companies among its record 1,400 winners last year.

Government funding of £70m has been announced to allow a new Lincolnshire road scheme to provide better links to the rest of eastern England.

Van fleet operators must plan ahead to prevent a recruitment crisis.

Roof rack specialist Thule has launched a new Ladder Tilt system for vans.

Mercedes-Benz has launched a maintenance deal that offers Vito and Sprinter van customers up to five years’ or 120,000 miles’ peace of mind.

Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles has launched a new communications platform through marketing communications specialist RLA Group.

The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders wants the Department for Transport to tackle the issue of dodgy conversions to vans.

All-In-One Leasing, the contract hire and leasing subsidiary of Britain’s largest car supermarket chain, UK Car Group, has appointed Neil Monks as sales director.

Britain's van fleet operators are losing £150 million every year in earnings by failing to carry out simple routine checks on their vehicles, according to a survey by More Th>n Business.

Here is the first offical picture of the new Hyundai which is due to go on sale in the UK early next year.

Iveco is to fit all its vehicles with the latest vehicle glass and component security etching, marking and registration systems by Retainagroup.

The Freight Transport Association (FTA) has launched a new London Van Guide.

The higher-than-normal level of van accidents in the recent wet weather are not all down to driver error, but partly due to the failings in the maintenance of our roads, according to a leading tyre expert.

LDV is celebrating after officially returning to profitability, less than a year after being bought by Russian firm GAZ.

Software provider eSAY has launched what it believes is the UK’s first off-the-shelf vehicle tracking product to be sold online.

Quartix, the vehicle tracking specialist, has been named winner of the finals of the National Business Awards, 2007 ‘AXA Small to Medium size Business of the Year Award’ – Wales and West Regional Programme.

Prestige Fleet Servicing has been awarded a contract with Lloyds TSB Autolease to assist with the servicing and maintenance of the leasing firm’s 130,000 fleet of vehicles.

Duncan Ward, BCA’s UK Business Development Manager – Commercial Vehicles, gives an auctioneer’s view of the used CV market

The usual summer lull has passed quickly this year, thanks to the wet weather and disappointing temperatures keeping buyers and vendors at work.

Poor weather in June and recent interest rate rises have led to a period of patchy sales over recent weeks, according to EurotaxGlass’s, publisher of Glass’s Guide to Used Commercial Vehicle Values.

Fiat is aiming to grab a slice of the growing market for upmarket passenger transport.

Citroen’s aggressive sales campaign went up a notch recently when the firm added sat-nav as standard to some of its new models.

It doesn’t matter how safe your vans are – if the loads aren’t restrained properly, disaster can strike in a crash. There are new initiative to raise awareness among Britain’s LCV operators.

Since 2000, van racking specialist Modul-System has been crash testing its vehicle storage and racking products.

Following a campaign of lobbying and working with London councils, the Freight Transport Association has secured agreement to a longer period for loading and unloading at the kerbside – 40 minutes instead of the current 20.

In a year when commercial vehicle launches are few and far between, the arrival of the new Peugeot 207 van is something of a welcome relief.