SEMA 2015, or this year’s Speciality Equipment Marketing Association show, wasn’t all about modified sports cars - there was also a fine selection of highly modified commercials. We pick SEMA's five wildest commercials as our favourites from the show in Las Vegas. Chevrolet Silverado 3500HD “Kid Rock” concept Chevrolet Silverado 3500HD What happens when Chevrolet and Detroit-based rapper-turned-country-rocker, Robert [...]
Downsized fire tender Up to 60% cheaper to operate than conventional truck-based tender Mercedes-Benz Sprinter 5.0t 519 CDI chassis with 190hp Euro Vl engine with auto or 6-speed manual Conversion by Pickup Systems of Burnley Cab for five firefighters 800-litre water tank with Godiva KP2 PTO pump 9-metre roof-mounted ladder BUSINESS is hotting up for a Lancashire-based body conversion specialist coming [...]
WORKING "on site" and need just some basic home comforts? Call for a Clarks-converted Movano welfare van! Vauxhall Movanos are being converted by Doncaster-based Clarks Vehicle Conversions to create a welfare vehicle, offering the perfect solution for a transient workforce. Canteen seating for four Based on the front-wheel-drive Movano L3H2 van, the approved conversion provides canteen seating for [...]
With access to more than 500,000 vehicles in over 2,000 UK locations, the business is able to source the widest variety of daily rental vehicles available in the country, from executive cars and construction vehicles to ice cream vans and snow ploughs NEXUS is celebrating unprecedented bookings for November as couriers and retailers temporarily increase their fleet capacity to deal with [...]
These results prove this to be the case and show that fleets can clean up their emissions while also saving fuel and even improving vehicle driveability at the same time THE benefits of remapping a van's engine management, with a 9% gain in fuel economy and big cut in nitrogen oxide emissions, have been shown by new independent testing of [...]
DESPITE worries that the market would be slowing down in 2015, instead the UK commercial vehicle market has had an excellent year. Registrations are expected to total 375,000, an increase of 16.4 per cent over the 2014 volume. A majority of commercial models have made up this growth - but what were the best-selling vans? We count down the top [...]
SsangYong Korando Sports 2.0 e-XDi EX: What’s hot? Gone are the old Mercedes diesel engines, instead the Korando Sports is powered by SsangYong’s own 153bhp, 2.0-litre e-XDi diesel which is pleasingly smooth. Our test Korando had this engine matched to the optional, slick-shifting six-speed auto box. Even with the auto box, the Korando Sports is still capable of 35.3mpg on [...]
Masternaut telematics - what it does: Masternaut Connect tracks multiple driver behaviours, including: Speeding, Harsh braking, Harsh acceleration, Harsh cornering and more. INSTALLING a telematics system across its 900-vehicle fleet has raised driver safety and cut crashes and bills for automotive parts, tools and equipment distributor Andrew Page. The system from Masternaut Connect is credited with cutting accidents and reducing speeding by [...]
Navara picks up title NP300 Navara scoops top honour at the International Pick Up Award 2016 Production commenced at Nissan’s Barcelona plant this month and arrives in UK showrooms in January 2016 Judges praised striking exterior and interior, new-to-sector technologies, 2.3-litre dCi engine and impressive payload and towing capabilities WE said it was the best driving pick up and judges from [...]
Tim's Sprinter Skin Shack 13-year-old extra-long Sprinter 311 CDI had covered 250,000 miles Spent 70 hours on conversion which includes: Hot and cold running water Plastic panelling Fitted cupboards and worktops Lighting and electrical services TATTOOIST Tim Bailey is building a fast-growing reputation for his creative body art after converting a second-hand Mercedes-Benz van into a mobile studio. It may [...]
What’s a Harvester Metro van? One of the earliest, mass-produced delivery trucks from the U.S. Produced from 1938 to 1975 Available in ½, ¾, or 1-tonne versions A VAN should be a reflection of your business and PJ Burchett’s modded Harvester Metro van is certainly that. If the graphics and that huge cone on the roof don’t grab your attention, the [...]
THE sixth-generation Volkswagen Transporter has won the accolade International Van of the Year 2016 - the third time that the Transporter has won this coveted annual prize. The Transporter, accounting for nearly a third of Volkswagen's UK commercial vehicle sales, has only recently gone on sale in T6 van mode, with T6 Caravelle and California versions only now starting production. Selected by an [...]
FORD has maintained its ACFO awards commercial vehicle categories domination with the blue oval's ubiquitous Ford Transit winning the Large Van of the Year title - over Mercedes-Benz Sprinter - for the fifth consecutive year and the 19th time in the history of the awards. Making it a double tops for Transits was the Ford Transit Connect, which returned to [...]
A SCOTTISH foodbank has been fed a free van with no 'best by' date to worry about! Fleet Alliance has given the van for two years free to the Glasgow North East Foodbank for transporting food to the poor and needy in the local community. The Glasgow NE Foodbank is a registered charity in its own right, operating under the umbrella of the Trussell Trust [...]
THERE won't be a lot of difference between the new Nissan Navara NP300 and forthcoming Navara-based production version of the Renault Alaskan while the Mercedes version of Navara will be "more upmarket" was the biggest hint Business Vans got from director of Nissan LCV Ponz Pandikuthira at his double cab's launch in Majorca. Ponz refused to be directly quoted, but was keen to point [...]
