WEX has been recognised by the Customer Service Institute of Australia as the 2015 Victorian Winner of the Service Excellence in a Contact Centre under 100 employees category, and the runner up in the National Award. “The Australian Service Excellence Awards are more and more competitive each year, and this year saw an incredibly high […] Read more
This article was first published in the IPWEA newsletter in October 2015. An IPWEA survey has discovered just 25 per cent of respondents are replacing their light fleet vehicles at the optimum time, collectively wasting thousands of dollars each year. The Light Vehicle Fleet Changeover Survey opened in July following a flurry of discussion on […] Read more
-By Rod Fuller – As a reviewer for Fleet Auto News I get to drive a lot of different vehicles. And after a recent review a thought occurred to me – Are we too distracted by the technology in new vehicles? It became apparent when I suddenly found myself, through an unexpected vehicle breakdown, driving a 1980’s Ford Festiva. […] Read more
This interview was first published in the IPWEA newsletter in October 2015. Tweed Shire Council Operations Coordinator – Plant and Materials, Thomas Brayley discusses how fleet has changed and what it takes to get to the top of the profession. Q. How has fleet management changed in the time you have been in the industry? […] Read more
– By Rob Wilson – Every fleet manager has experienced times when there are just not enough hours in the day. There is the daily juggling of maintenance and repairs, special projects, staff leave and so on, and then at the worst possible time an important vehicle, truck or item of plant breaks down. Generally […] Read more
– By Steve Nuttall – Volkswagen’s installation of software to make its diesel cars emit more pollution on the road than in official tests is an unmitigated disaster on many levels for both the company and the wider industry as questions are raised about the diesel technology that so many OEMs have invested in. The […] Read more
Swedish car maker Volvo Cars plans to develop technology that can detect kangaroos to avoid collisions moves a step closer this week with local testing involving real kangaroos to begin in the Australian Capital Territory. A team of Volvo Cars safety engineers arrived from Sweden this week to study and film the roadside behaviour of […] Read more
The first vehicle to go through on-road driverless car testing in the Southern Hemisphere has arrived in Adelaide ahead of this weekend’s historic demonstration trials on the Southern Expressway. The Volvo XC90 was unveiled in Adelaide’s Riverbank Precinct signalling the final countdown to the milestone of the Australian Driverless Vehicle Initiative, coordinated by ARRB Group. […] Read more
– By Mike Ridley-Smith – If you follow F1 you’ve seen Daniel Ricciardo’s Red Bull car roar around the world’s race tracks with the Infiniti branding on his car and uniform. If not, then you may be wondering what, or who, is Infiniti? Infiniti is the luxury brand of Nissan and was recently launched in Australia. […] Read more
This year’s action-packed Fleet Europe Forum and Awards event in the eternal city of Rome on November 18-19 promises to offer something for everyone in the world of international fleet. The Fleet Europe Awards on the final evening of the two-day event, at the stunning Salone delle Fontane, will announce the winners of some of […] Read more
Elders provides a broad range of agricultural products and services through its 370 outlets primarily located in rural and regional areas right across the country, which meant it had unique requirements when it came time to tender for a new forklift provider. Elders’ fleet manager Jeff Howarth said Toyota’s ability to meet the requirement of […] Read more
– By Gerard Norsa – With fleet managers increasingly being called upon to align their operations with broader environmental and cost efficiency objectives, it’s time to have a look at what value can be brought to the conversation by taking tyre supply choices into consideration. Making good decisions about the size and fit-for-purpose vehicles to […] Read more
