Latest News

Ben

Maintenance investigations assessment guida...

Apr 08, 2022Comments off

Following feedback, the Maintenance Investigation Visit Reports (MIVR), which DVSA carries out to ensure operators have the right systems and facilities in place to maintain their vehicles, are changing. The MIVR assessment guides are being combined

Ben

Kevin Welstead

Apr 08, 2022Comments off

EV Sector Director, SSE Energy Solutions. He is an experienced senior leader with 30 years of experience in the energy, utility and contracting environment. Contributing Posts: How fleet managers can shift their green credentials up a

Ben

How fleet managers can shift their green cr...

Apr 08, 2022Comments off

Electric vehicles continue to provide a viable and attractive solution to cutting carbon emissions across the transport sector. Currently, transport accounts for around a quarter of global energy-related CO2 emissions, and businesses own more than half

Ben

Mercedes-Benz Trucks will be launching the ...

Apr 08, 2022Comments off

Powerful, extremely reliable, profitable in day-to-day operations, fuel-saving and yet also dynamic: Haulage firms make a variety of demands on their trucks – because they are what earn them their crust. Especially given the acute shortage

Ben

Freeway announces predictive maintenance ad...

Apr 07, 2022Comments off

Freeway Fleet Systems will be showcasing new developments in predictive fleet maintenance at the ITT Hub conference and Exhibition. Freeway will be demonstrating their latest asset management software that can now receive live data from vehicle sensors,

Ben

Commercial vehicle safety should be top pri...

Apr 07, 2022Comments off

The recent introduction of the Highway Code Hierarchy and enforcement of the Direct Vision Standard in London has made commercial vehicle safety top of the agenda for all business owners. Whether driving a single van around

Ben

Sergio Matteo Savaresi

Apr 07, 2022Comments off

Sergio M. Savaresi received the M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering (Politecnico di Milano, 1992), the Ph.D. in Systems and Control Engineering (Politecnico di Milano, 1996), and the M.Sc. in Applied Mathematics (Catholic University, Brescia, 2000). After the

Ben

Self-driving car crashes: who should be hel...

Apr 07, 2022Comments off

At the beginning of the year, the Law Commission of England and Wales and the Scottish Law Commission proposed unprecedented legal reforms on self-driving vehicles that have the potential to revolutionise the future of travel in

Ben

Speedy launch industry-first lifting and ha...

Apr 07, 2022Comments off

National construction equipment hire and services provider Speedy, have launched an innovative purpose-built sack truck for its delivery fleet and service centres across the UK to reduce the risk of manual handling injuries. Speedy has developed

Ben

Freight prices rise for 14 straight months

Apr 06, 2022Comments off

New industry index data reveals March’s average haulage and courier price-per-mile was up 12% year-on-year. This comes as the whole UK supply chain is feeling the knock-on effects of the Ukraine invasion, with impacts on businesses