Part of the fleet
Amberon to benefit from the knowledge and expertise of Fleet Service Great Britain in managing its fast-growing fleet.
Amberon, a nationwide traffic management company which operates 17 depots across England and Wales and offers coverage for key clients in Scotland, the Channel Islands, Isle of Wight and Northern Ireland, have hired FSGB to manage out-of-hours calls and launched a three-month maintenance management pilot.
In the last 18 months the size of Ambneron’s light commercial fleet has more than doubled to some 330 typically 3.5-tonne flatbed vehicles, but also including 20 HGVs and additionally 20 company cars to help maximise their stop and go teams, convoy systems, road closure diversions, high speed static lane closures, contraflows and mobile high speed works.
The out-of-hours service sees FSGB’s own call centre handle an average 150 calls a month between 6pm and 7am. On receiving a call in respect of both planned and unplanned emergency activity, staff direct the work to the nearest available duty engineers.
Mr Musson said: “The high mileage nature of our work means that maintenance management is critical and vehicle downtime must be very carefully managed as maximum uptime is essential.”
The majority of the vehicles are owned by Amberon – a handful are subject to lease arrangements – and all undergo remedial work through FSGB’s nationwide independent garage network. The light commercial vehicle fleet typically averages 750 miles per vehicle per week equating to 39,000 miles a year.
