In last year’s Autumn Statement Mr Osborne said that he was cancelling the 2p-a-litre rise due next September and would be freezing fuel duty until May 2015. This was confirmed in today’s speech. The Chancellor also promised a £200m pothole repair fund although local councils will need to take part in a competitive bidding process. IAM […]
moDrive offers fleet operators access to key fleet management tools, which target fuel savings, meet duty of care requirements, highlight aggressive and costly drivers, accurately record all mileages and identify vehicle faults and when servicing is due – all for less than £5 per month per vehicle. One major leasing company is already in the […]
ALD will be exhibiting with live interactive demonstrations of its award-winning in-vehicle telematics technology, ProFleet2, and joins a large number of leading fleet service firms exhibiting at the Show on 9th April to showcase the latest developments for the fleet industry. Rhys Harrhy, telematics consultant at ALD Automotive, said: ‘Our telematics system can provide companies […]
So it’s official: those long talked-about green shoots of recovery are finally growing. The UK economy is coming out of recession, and doing so not only faster than expected by all the pundits and forecasting institutions, but faster than any economy in the EU. GDP grew for four consecutive quarters last year – the first […]
The organisation is constantly looking for new ways to improve its performance across all divisions of the business and has been working with Masternaut since 2008, deploying the firm’s telematics technology across its 3,000-strong commercial fleet, including LCVs. The technology was deployed in line with Travis Perkins’ move to introduce a number of initiatives to […]
So says risk management specialist Interactive Driving Systems following a recent HSE case in which a Preston-based building firm was fined £130k by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) after the death of a worker who was struck by a reversing van. The incident took place outside a cinema in Ashton-on-Ribble when father-of-one Carl Green […]
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SECTOR Microvan PRICE £4,600–£15,000 (ex-VAT) FUEL 82mpg CO2 80g/km Octa-Piaggio is the new importer of Italian Piaggio commercial vehicles for the UK, founded by former Lloyds TSB Autolease commercial vehicle director, Grahame Neagus. Grahame has taken his knowledge of the light CV sector and applied it to the classic Italian commercial vehicle, the Ape (Italian […]
Dubbed Fuel+, the new fuel card has already been piloted with 30 corporate clients including supermarket brand Morrisons, which saw a £700,000 reduction in its like-for-like fuel spend in its first year with Fuel+. The fuel card is now being made available to all organisations with large vehicle fleets (with a fuel spend of more than […]
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SECTOR Utility PRICE £9,999(ex-VAT) FUEL 36mpg CO2 184g/km DFSK UK, the importer for Chinese mini van manufacturer DFSK, has updated its Loadhopper compact commercial range, with the addition of a 1.3-litre petrol engine. The larger engine delivers 77hp and 102Nm of torque, up from 52hp and 78Nm on the 1.0-litre motor, which remains as an […]
What were your priorities when you joined Fleetcor? Fleetcor UK has three customer facing brands: Allstar, Keyfuels and The Fuel Card Company. The key driver for me was to understand what do those brands stand for, what their customers need and want and how we support that. What I saw when we came in was, […]
