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Vauxhall has introduced a four-wheel drive option for its Movano van range. Using a driven front axle and transfer box from German all-wheel drive specialist Oberaigner, which supplies components for the Mercedes-Benz Sprinter 4×4, the conversion is available on all rear drive Movano vans, chassis cabs and double cab models. The Movano 4×4 can be […]
The FTA was responding to the publication by the RAC Foundation, which reported figures recording record profits made by English local authorities for parking fines – known as Penalty Charge Notices (PCNs). The report showed that in 2012-13 a surplus of £594m was made from parking activities. The Association noted that as well as the […]
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Lex Autolease will grow by 100,000 vehicles in the next five years, and it will do it in some pretty innovative ways, its new managing director Tim Porter reckons. Porter has only been in the job for a few months, having come from the Lloyds Banking Group’s commercial banking sector, where he headed up the […]
According to the road safety charity, research shows that vehicle defects contributed to 2,125 crashes in Great Britain in 2011, 52 of them causing deaths. A survey by Brake found outsourcing of vehicle servicing and repair is widespread: two-thirds (63%) of managers surveyed outsourced all their vehicle servicing and repair. Brake says it is therefore […]
Costing just £20, the service is said to be more detailed than traditional free vehicle health check programmes and offer great value for money. Peter Fairlie, group sales director at ATS Euromaster, said: ‘Fleets have told us they want the added reassurance of an experienced technician inspecting their vehicles in between services, which can be […]
ACPO police figures show that in 2011 more people failed breath tests between the hours of 6am and 11am than during the hour before or after midnight. And a new AA Populus survey of 21,000 drivers shows that the majority (56%) do not know when it is safe to drive the morning after drinking. In […]
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‘Risk management is about drawing in data and then making use of that data,’ says Shaun Rowley, senior product marketing manager at BT Fleet. ‘A lot of companies gather data, but they don’t do anything useful with it. What is a risk to the business, what’s a risk to the driver or to the vehicle?’ […]
The new monthly fixed-cost payment model has been introduced in response to customer requests for their duty of care expenditure to be broken down into a monthly charge instead of having to pay the amount at the point of use. Safe Solutions works by evaluating the “duty of care” needs of each fleet, looking at […]
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Fleet size: 200 vehicles What’s the history of Gratte Brothers? From small beginnings as an electrical contractor, started by two brothers in the post war years, Gratte Brothers has now become one of the leading Building Services Contractors in the UK, while still remaining a family owned business, employing more than 650 personnel with a […]
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Where is Mercedes-Benz in the UK today? We are the “new luxury” brand, with Audi and BMW as premium. We have grown by 34% through the recession. It was worth working hard in a difficult market. We lost quality in the early 2000s, distracted by the Chrysler involvement. Now it’s fixed and we’re the fastest […]
