Logistics firm Buffaload says it has cut fuel bills by £4,000 a week, after implementing Verilocation’s CANbus-based telematics, temperature monitoring and tracking systems across its truck and double-deck trailer fleet.
Telematics
Dublin City Council has taken delivery of the UK and Ireland’s first new Euro 6 Volvo FL 4x2 rigids equipped with factory-built crew cabs.
Rigids
Transport and distribution company S&R Smith & Son has taken delivery of its first Euro 6 DAF XF tractor – the first of an order of eight – which is also the operator’s 100th DAF truck.
Tractor Units
Building contractor Breyer Group has cut its insurance premium by £60,000 in the first year since installing fleet and driver performance technology from TomTom Telematics.
Driver / People Management
Yorkshire-based operator John Owen (Aggregates) has taken delivery of three Euro 6 DAF CF FAD construction tippers and ordered four more, citing whole life costs as well as dealer back-up as reasons for the decision.
Rigids
Brewery business Moorhouse has taken delivery of its first Fuso Canter truck and says the vehicle “performed brilliantly” during its busiest season over Christmas and New Year.
Rigids
Total commercial vehicle registrations were up for the ninth consecutive month in January, by 23% to 24,567 units, fuelled in part by something of a return to form by the truck market.
Sales Figures
DAF is now launching CF and XF 6x2 tractor units with a rear steering axle for applications needing maximum manoeuvrability – such as with construction and agricultural deliveries.
Tractor Units
The Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (CILT) has announced that senior traffic commissioner Beverley Bell FCILT is to be the organisation’s next president.
People
Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles has released details of the fourth-generation Caddy, which promises lower emissions, improved fuel performance and several new safety features.
Light Commercial Vehicles
Construction sector operator Jonathan Hardy Contractors has taken delivery of an 18-tonne Volvo FE 4x2 tipper – the first truck in Wales to be equipped with I-Shift automated transmission, which the operator describes as “second to none”.
Rigids
Commercial vehicle hire business Axis Fleet Management has placed a £13 million order with MAN Truck & Bus UK for 200 Euro 6 tractor units.
Tractor Units