Express home delivery specialist Breezemount has taken delivery of 24 new DAF 7.5-tonners equipped with DriveCam front- and cab-facing safety cameras from Enterprise Flex-E-Rent.
Rigids
Linen and workwear provider Clean is reporting improved visibility of fleet and driver compliance, for less cost, thanks to its implementation of TruControl from TruTac.
Telematics
St Austell Brewery has taken delivery of four Isuzu Forward 7.5-tonners as part of its rolling fleet upgrade, describing the vehicle’s payload as “unbeatable”.
Rigids
Iveco has taken top spot in the best light truck category at the 2017 Fleet World Honours for its Daily Euro 6 light commercial vehicle range, with judges describing the line-up as “simply unequalled”.
Light Commercial Vehicles
Bridgestone is the first major tyre manufacturer to offer the new commercial tyre technician licence, run by the Society of Operations Engineers (SOE).
Tyres & Retreads
Mulholland Contracts has replaced its fleet with 100 Ford Transit Crew vans, equipped with Ford Telematics powered by Telogis, and is anticipating “significant long-term operation cost savings” thanks to improved fleet visibility.
Telematics
Renault is to showcase its 19-tonne Range D Wide CNG (compressed natural gas) rigid truck at the International Transport and Logistics trade show, at the Porte de Versailles centre in Paris (14—16 March 2017).
Alternative Fuels
Shell has opened a hydrogen refuelling station at the Cobham service station on the M25 – the first branded and public hydrogen refuelling site in the UK.
Alternative Fuels
The UK is now the second most congested country in the world behind China, with Brits in 2016 spending an average of five more days a year (6.3 days for Londoners) stuck in traffic than in the previous year.
Telematics
Vehicle recovery giant The AA has ordered a further 158 VW Transporters – adding to the 500 new Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles vans it took last year.
Panel Vans
Continental Tyres says it will use the upcoming CV Show (25—27 April 2017, NEC, Birmingham) to preview its Conti YardReader, designed to monitor tyre pressures automatically for all vehicles in a fleet’s yard.
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