Hampshire-based salad business Vitacress is replacing its transport fleet in a bid to boost environmental performance – reported by Transport Engineer – 14th November 2013 Ryder is supplying Vitacress with 29 new trucks and five new trailers on a five-year contract hire. The equipment includes 24 tractors, 10 of which are 44-tonne Mercedes-Benz units and…
Read newsVehicle telematics, Transport Management and Mobile Solutions specialists Microlise, has reported its fifth consecutive year of growth. Since 2009, Microlise revenues have grown by an average of 15% per annum. With their financial year ending in July 2013, Microlise has seen its annual turnover continue this trend and now report international sales growth up by…
Read newsViridor, one of the UK’s leading recycling, renewable energy and waste management companies, has chosen Microlise, a leading vehicle tracking, telematics, journey management and ePOD specialist, to support their continual drive to improve efficiency within their transport operations. Viridor offers a wide range of services to its customers from recycling and waste collections, skips and…
Read newsMicrolise have a long standing reputation for innovation within the vehicle tracking, telematics, journey management and proof of delivery arena. Microlise are one of the few telematics companies to manufacture their own CANbus & OBDII enabled telematics units offering customers unrivalled levels of performance. The recent release of SmartPOD, a downloadable application for android smartphone…
Read newsC M Downton Ltd has made a significant investment in a new in-cab telematics system for its 500-strong vehicle fleet. The new transport management system, by leading developer Microlise, is being rolled out across Downton’s entire fleet along with a new tablet personal computer for each cab. This new system will allow drivers to be…
Read newsIn an interview in this month’s Transport & Logistics Magazine, Carlsberg’s National Fleet Compliance Manager, Phil Thompson, highlights the effect that Microlise telematics has had on it’s fleet and the knock on effect it’s had on Carlsberg’s CSR programme. Carlsberg have achieved a 4.8% fuel and carbon emissions saving in year 1 of implementing the…
Read newsMicrolise, the leading Transport Management, Telematics and ePOD solution provider, announce the general release of their new SmartPOD Proof of Delivery mobile application. SmartPOD is Microlise’s first POD app for Android smartphone devices, aimed at providing an affordable pay-as-you-go POD solution to 4PLs and sub-contractors alike. The application can be downloaded free of charge from…
Read newsWhen our staff take it upon themselves to get involved in local community projects and youth sports, we do our best to actively encourage it. As a result, Microlise are proud shirt sponsors of Kenilworth Wardens under 16’s football club.
Read newsA stolen JCB fitted with a tracking device has been found eight miles away hidden in woods off the A46 in Market Rasen. The £45,000 to £50,000 JCB loader – which was fitted with a LiveLink satellite tracking device – was stolen from a farm off High Street, Caenby, in the early hours of the…
Read newsWELCOME TO 2013 – and welcome to the good times, at least for some! December’s Trucking Britain highlights operators in a broadly positive frame of mind. Nearly half of the survey respondents (42%) expect volumes to increase in profit, while only 14% expect a decrease in volumes and 21% a decrease in profit. The analysis…
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