Vans

TNB talks to Ed Bishop, UK Sales Manager at Sortimo, about the firm’s range of van products. Tell us about Sortimo? Sortimo offers a large range of high quality products and services for vans and delivery vehicles including racking systems,…

For many years the commercial vehicle industry has played a key role in keeping ambulance, fire and other emergency response services supplied with the most sophisticated and up-to-date trucks and vans. Recent months have seen a series of new launches…

Electric vans are becoming increasingly important as the government, towns and cities attempt to meet their carbon emissions targets – as well as preparing for the end of sale of new pure fossil fuel vans from 2030. A large number…

Infrastructure services and engineering company Amey, has taken delivery of five new MAN TGE based Trunk Roads Incident Support Service (TRISS) vehicles. The vehicles will be based across Scotland’s busiest trunk roads and motorways and will assist Transport Scotland in…

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)…

Vauxhall has supplied Clarion Response, part of Clarion Housing Group – the UK’s largest housing association – with a fleet of 290 new vans. The organisation will use Combo Cargo and British-built Vivaro models as mobile workshops for maintenance engineers…

Some of the biggest names in the van and light commercial vehicle industry will be attending this year’s Commercial Vehicle Show. Taking place at Birmingham’s NEC on April 24-26, the CV Show has confirmed the attendance of Ford and Volkswagen,…

New light commercial vehicle (LCV) registrations experienced a double-digit decline in November.

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.

New figures released today show the number of vans on Britain’s roads has hit an all time high of 4 million. According to Motorparc data from the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT), a total of 4,007,331 vans are in use on UK roads, a 4.3% increase since the previous year.