CV

Why is the CV Show important to you? We have always considered the CV Show as the highlight of the Commercial Vehicle automotive calendar and have consistently exhibited since 2006. The show provides us with the valuable opportunity of showcasing…

TNB speaks to Mandy Dean, Director, Commercial Vehicles, Ford of Britain and Ireland, about what the manufacturer will bring to the CV Show. Why is the CV Show important to you? As the UK’s market leader in commercial vehicles for…

Marcus Youden, Quick Release product director Two years on from the UK Government’s Road to Zero, CV operators and manufacturers have had time to digest implications and consider responses. The timeline particularly focused manufacturers’ minds as CVs typically enjoy longer…

Reports state that the global last-mile delivery market is projected to grow to around £44bn by 2025, up from £23bn in 2018 and £29bn in 2020. Depending upon which report you read, this represents a compound annual growth rate (CAGR)…

British Gas, operator of the third largest commercial vehicle fleet in the UK, has placed an order of 2,000 all-electric Vauxhall Vivaro-e vans. The deal is the country’s largest ever CV order of electric-only vehicles – beating Amazon’s Sprinter van…

Interview with Richard Drinkwater, marketing, PR and business development manager Tell us a bit about your business. When were you founded, where are you based and how many people do you employ? Established in 1993, SvTech is headquartered in Leyland,…

British commercial vehicle manufacturing declines -25.7% in October to 6,921. UK demand rises 31.7% as exports fall -44.0%. Year-to-date production declines -13.3% to 68,154 units, with overseas demand accounting for 61.6% of output. British CV manufacturing fell -25.7% in October,…

UK commercial vehicle (CV) manufacturing fell -12.2% in August, according to figures published by the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders.

UK commercial vehicle manufacturing saw a decline in March 2016, according to new figures from the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT). 8,398 CVs were built in Britain last month, down -13.0% compared with the previous year as the market rebalanced following a particularly strong performance in March 2015.

Advances in van safety technology could be undermined by dangerous overloading, warns SMMT. Almost nine in 10 (88.5%) of the 2,381 vans weighed last year by the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) were found to be overloaded, a worse record than the previous year in which 84% of the 3,337 checked were illegal.