With these latest deliveries there are now over 100 Citroën vans in the firm's growing fleet. The company has opted for the Nemo X HDi 75 manual 660 van, which is fitted with a 75hp Euro 5 diesel engine with 62.8mpg on the combined cycle. Citroën claims the vans have a 660kg payload capacity and […]
FTA’s traffic service operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week, providing vital amber and red winter weather alerts. Daily updates give information on UK road traffic and weather conditions affecting freight operations, with additional alerts on severe incidents. There are also advance warnings of any severe weather forecasts issued by the Met Office. […]
In addition to providing training, the modules also ask questions on key topics and now include the ability to export the driver responses so that fleet managers can pinpoint where drivers may need further support. ‘We have a suite of 15 driver training modules,’ said Jonathan Mosley, E-Training World’s director of sales and marketing. ‘Each […]
Orchestrated by charity Brake, this year's Road Safety Week is focused on the need to ‘tune in to road safety’ and avoid distractions that could cause devastation. As part of its campaign, Road Skills is sending out its Injury Prevention Code of Conduct poster and its Cyclist TBT to clients. Road Skills founder David Somers said: ‘We are asking all […]
First established in the fleet sector in 1982, the contract hire, rental and fleet management specialist now operates through three key divisions of leasing, rental and corporate finance. ‘We’ve made some very significant improvements to our overall proposition in the last 12 months,’ said Shaun Barritt, managing director, ‘and have also been referring to ourselves […]
According to SMMT, output for 2013 to date is down 19.9% to 75,484 units and although bus and truck manufacturing is showing signs of growth, the outlook remains gloomy until the end of the year. 'The downward trend in CV production continued in October, given continually low levels of demand across the EU combined and […]
The specialist surfacing and reinstatement company is using TomTom’s driver behaviour monitoring tools to underpin a performance improvement programme that, within just three months, has reduced incidents of speeding by 95%. Other incidents of undesirable driving, such as harsh steering and braking, decreased by 65%. Ferns Surfacing has achieved the savings by educating its drivers with TomTom Active […]
The Isuzu Forward N75.190 7.5 tonne curtainsided-bodied rigid is now operating out of the company’s Northern depot in Leeds and is also the first of the company’s distribution vehicles to carry the newly designed Pedigree Wholesale corporate livery. The company anticipates that the vehicle will cover between […]
The e-book reveals how speeding, hard braking, excessive idling and other widespread bad driving habits can lead to huge fuel wastages. By using real-time red flag reports and “Live Fleet” navigation devices, the Fleetmatics tracking system helps fleet managers identify and reduce such costly fuel wasting behaviours and also helps them ensure that vehicles travel […]
Speaking to Fleet World, sales and marketing director Andy Kirk said that the company is installing over 4,000 vehicle tracking systems every month, with both the fleet business, which concentrates on commercial car, van and HGV fleets, and the insurance business having shown strong growth over the year. He explained: ‘The success is down, first […]
