Workshop discussion about Monday morning vehicle non-starts can be a bit like Groundhog Day. 

The stark reality is that there are oddly accepted and unnecessary battery-related costs that could be removed with proactive battery management. If workshop managers and owners want to reduce these needless battery related costs, and improve battery performance and vehicle reliability, it is worth looking at the workshop’s day-to-day battery management programmes.

Established in Vanersborg, Sweden in 1951, the VBG Group is a world leader in the design, manufacture and supply of equipment and systems to the truck and trailer industry. Today, the Group employs over 1,600 people in 18 countries and comprises four divisions – VBG Truck Equipment, Edsha Trailer Systems, Mobile Climate Control and Ringfeder Power Transmissions.

The Rotronics ROBIS web-based dashboard and reporting system that collects battery and electrical data from a number of national/regional workshop sources and updates software across the fleet, has been available since the beginning of 2018 and the Rotronics team has been working with major national commercial and fleet operators.

As of 24th April 2018, the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA), the executive agency responsible for setting, testing and enforcing driver and vehicle standards in Great Britain, confirmed Earned Recognition as ‘Business as Usual’, following the successful completion of its pilot.

Tamper evident labels, security stickers or whatever you call them can play a very handy role in your security regime particularly for direct sales to consumers via online shopping channels where a third party parcel carrier, or perhaps several will get involved with the package before it reaches the purchaser.

Fantastic! We had 3 fun packed days demonstrating our Cloud Based Transport Solutions disc-check (tachograph analysis), vehicle-check (eDefect Reporting), tracker-check (vehicle tracking) & TransMaS (traffic management). We were that busy we didn’t get chance to explore the rest of the show! Usually we use the cv show as an opportunity to catch up with suppliers and also see what’s new to the market, but time didn’t permit.