The move includes the appointment of two experienced engineers, Sean Morris as group director of engineering and Matt Monnington as engineering director to BOX Telematics. Morris and Monnington will work alongside Trakm8’s other Engineering Directors, Matt Cowley, group big data engineering director and Tim Cowley, group advanced engineering director to shape Trakm8’s position in the […]
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Fiat Professional’s revised Ducato van range has one major USP when compared to the Citroën Relay and Peugeot Boxer that are built alongside it. Where the French duo use a 2.2-litre diesel engine to provide a choice of 110hp, 130hp and 150hp, Fiat has its own 2.3-litre MultiJet II motor, offering a similar power choice. […]
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Seasonal demand With the Christmas season fast approaching, many home delivery companies, couriers, supermarkets and parcel firms will be looking to boost their fleets with additional drivers. Even the recent explosion of “click and collect”, where customers order online but pick up the goods at a local branch of the store, will require a huge […]
The Trafic Passenger is available with short (3098 mm) or long (3498 mm) wheelbases, four 1.6-litre dCi turbodiesel engines – depending on version – and a choice of “Business” or “Sport” trim levels. All versions have three rows of three seats, although buyers have the option of deleting the third row to increase load capacity. […]
The developments include the “HYDIVU” (Hybrid Diesel for LCVs) prototype, which aims to reduce fuel consumption and therefore running costs for high-mileage business users. It is based on the Master van powered by Renault’s ENERGY dCi 165 Twin Turbo diesel engine, and has been engineered in conjunction with a number of European partners. The technology […]
As part of this research, TRL is carrying out an online survey and is calling for anyone that is involved with or has experience of driving, operating or procuring the services of commercial vehicles in London (inside the M25) to take part. This includes: Owners and directors of companies which operate the vehicles Fleet managers […]
The new Sprinter vans arrived via Dealer Euro Commercials. All are Sprinter 313 CDI models with 129 hp common rail turbodiesel engines and BlueEFFICIENCY packages which combine a raft of measures designed to reduce fuel use and exhaust emissions. These include ECO-Start, the innovative system that cuts the engine whenever a vehicle is stationary – […]
The integration works by allowing operators to utilise their vehicle tracking system to promote available capacity and match precise vehicle locations with tens of thousands of loads posted on the freight exchange. In addition, by taking advantage of the live vehicle tracking data integration, trading partners will also be able to view the whereabouts and […]
BCA found that values for the best presented vans typically outstripping price guide expectations by some margin. For the second month running, year-on-year values across the board are up by nearly 10% as the relative shortage of retail quality LCVs continues. The average value of a van sold at BCA in October was £5,615, the […]
As predicted by Manheim, November saw a significant volume increase of stock entering the wholesale market, an impressive 32% more than in November 2013. This heralds a welcome return to seasonal de-fleet patterns which have not been seen for several years. Manheim states this return to seasonal de-fleeting follows the traditional time lag post September […]
Announced in the second reading of the Infrastructure Bill – which is expected to receive Royal Assent by March 2015 – the tranche of changes see the Highways Agency become a government-owned company, which will save the taxpayer at least £2.6bn over the next 10 years. The agency will be renamed as Highways England from […]
Available to download from the Google Play Store, the app offers alerts based on TomTom’s extensive coverage of fixed speed cameras. App users will automatically get camera reports shared by more than 3.4 million TomTom drivers, and will also receive an update every minute, with upcoming mobile speed cameras based on the latest information from […]
