Electric fleets could reduce UK CO2 emissions by 3.4 million tonnes a year

By |2023-07-14T10:06:33+01:00July 14th, 2023|Van management, Van News|

Study reveals that there are over 2.3 million vans in Great Britain owned by businesses, each travelling an average of 17,500 miles a year. With a typical diesel van producing 154g of CO2 per mile, one commercial van emits an estimated 4.3 tonnes of CO2 annually. This equates to 10.3 million tonnes of CO2 being produced each year by commercial vans alone.

Northgate acquires FridgeXpress to enter the chilled and freezer rental sector

By |2023-05-30T11:30:28+01:00May 30th, 2023|Van News|

FridgeXpress will enhance Northgate Vehicle Hire's range of specialist LCVs in the UK and follows the July 2022 acquisition of traffic management specialist Blakedale which has grown its fleet by over 30% in the past year. It runs a fleet of diesel and electric vans and trailers. It was one of the first companies to add electric refrigerated vans to its fleet to help customers tackle their emissions particularly in urban areas.

Northgate takes delivery of 350 new Mercedes e-Vito vans in 2022

By |2022-05-11T12:40:13+01:00May 11th, 2022|Van News|

Taking delivery of the new e-Vito forms part of Northgate’s wider drive towards fleet electrification, entitled Drive to Zero. The proposition was developed to ease the transition to electric LCVs and includes A fleet suitability analysis, the provision of turnkey charging solutions including infrastructure management - via its charging sister company ChargedEV - as well as servicing, maintenance, and driver training support.

Northgate Vehicle Hire appoints Adam Naylor as UK Head of Sales

By |2022-03-01T10:04:13+00:00March 1st, 2022|Van News|

Naylor takes on responsibility for Northgate’s sales function following a period of sustained growth for the business and as Northgate moves increasingly to support the electrification of client’s fleets and their fleet support infrastructure needs. The business has also moved to develop a complete range of fleet service solutions over recent years and now provides complete fleet turnkey solutions to customers large and small.

Northgate Vehicle Hire strikes gold

By |2022-02-21T11:55:12+00:00February 21st, 2022|Van News|

During the past 12 months Northgate has introduced the school to the wider business via its learning and development team which means all staff are updated on the latest sustainability issues. Future training courses will also feature the school’s online content so individual departments can develop their own in-depth sustainability action plans.

Northgate ‘disappointed’ by EV grant cut

By |2022-01-05T11:07:47+00:00January 5th, 2022|Van News|

Northgate believes the Plug-in-Van-Grant funding in particular could have been retained at its current level, as EV adoption for van operators remains behind that of car fleets. It thinks the grant reduction for 2.5 tonnes gross vehicle weight (GVW) vans or less and vans between 2-3.5 tonnes GVW to 35% of their purchase price up to a maximum of £3,000 and £5,000 respectively won’t be a ‘deal breaker’.

Getting the best out of van fleet management

By |2020-03-31T12:16:55+01:00March 31st, 2020|Award Feature, Van News|

YOU are busy running your business and how much of your time is taken up by managing your fleet of vans? It could well be that you would benefit from outsourcing. Whether it's as straight forward as just providing maintenance of existing vehicles, to the more complex challenges of running the fleet day-to-day, outside help can reduce costs, increase efficiency, [...]

Buying a used van? Don’t make these mistakes

By |2020-03-30T11:39:45+01:00March 30th, 2020|Award Feature, Van News|

BUYING a used van might be a necessity, particularly if you are a start-up, but make sure you don’t get saddled with a wrong ‘un. With around four million vans on British roads, there are plenty coming on to the second-hand market all the time via auctions or through dealers. However, many of these will have had a pretty tough [...]

The benefits of van rental

By |2020-03-26T14:59:11+00:00March 26th, 2020|Award Feature, Van News|

SMALL businesses can benefit from greater availability of flexible van hire to help keep the cost of running a business down. Flexible hire is one way for SMEs to contain costs: rent a van when you need it, return it when you don’t – allowing SMEs to flex costs against income without overstressing the business. Northgate Vehicle Hire has more [...]

Euro 6 diesel infographic

By |2017-08-09T11:57:22+01:00August 9th, 2017|Guest blog|

THIS Euro 6 diesel infographic describes the introduction of Euro 6 in September 01 and how the latest diesel engine emissions legislation, determined by the European Commission, helps make vehicles cleaner. Join business hire and leasing specialists Northgate as they analyse how the standards have changed the motoring scene for the better.

Northgate places £2.5m order for the new Isuzu D-MAX

By |2017-05-11T13:17:13+01:00May 11th, 2017|Van News|

THE new Isuzu pick-up has gained a vote of confidence with Northgate placing a £2.5m order for the new Isuzu D-Max. One of the attractions for the largest commercial vehicle business in Britain, Ireland and Spain was that the new truck does not need AdBlue to comply with the Euro 6 emissions regulations. Northgate Vehicle Hire has a fleet of more than [...]

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