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Fleet management anywhere, any time

With rising costs and increased time pressures, fleet managers are under pressure to operate their fleets in the most economical and efficient way possible. JACO DE KLERK finds that Mercedes-Benz has an enormously sensible application that’s even available on iPad and iPhone.

 

Tyrexpo rolls into India

ECI International, organisers of Tyrexpo India, the specialist exhibition for the tyre and garage equipment trade, will return to the Chennai Trade Centre for a second staging from July 9 to 11, 2013.

 

Tyrexpo Asia returns in 2013

Tyrexpo Asia, the leading tyre and garage equipment exhibition in the region, returns to Singapore Expo Centre next year. ECI International has announced that the 9th edition in the series will run from March 19 to 21 in 2013.

 

Waste tyres and wasted time

The saga surrounding the implementation of the Integrated Industry Waste Tyre Management Plan continues.

   

Opening doors

Crossroads has entered the manganese sector with a contract to transport fuel to a Northern Cape mine.

 
Smart move...

Smart move...

Sappi Forests and its contracted timber haulier, Timber Logistics Services, have opted to invest in a 15-truck fleet of so-called “Smart Trucks” – specialised, abnormal-load logging units that enable contract-specific tonnages of raw timber to be delivered to paper and saw mills using fewer vehicles, cutting both operating and fuel costs, harmful emissions, road damage and traffic congestion...

 
From left: Frank Wagner, CEO Unitrans Supply Chain Solutions; Ray Singh, managing director of customer solutions development for Unitrans Supply Chain Solutions; Kobus van Zyl, vice-president of commercial vehicles, Mercedes-Benz South Africa; Clinton Savage, divisional manager Mercedes-Benz Trucks, Mercedes-Benz South Africa.

Gas for green

Unitrans, in partnership with Mercedes-Benz and Sasol, has launched a pilot project for the use of environmentally-friendly liquid petroleum gas (LPG) in its fleet. GAVIN MYERS reports.

   
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