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Thursday, March 18th 2010

All the latest news from Iveco

Iveco Continue Building Fleets

Iveco, designers and manufacturers of commercial and specialised vehicles, have delivered four new Iveco Stralis Active Day 26 tonne rear-steering rigids to Hampshire’s largest independent builders merchant, Elliott Brothers, to join its 27-strong truck fleet delivering building supplies across the county. The four Stralis AD260S31Y/FS-D 6×2s, supplied by Hendy Van & Truck,  join a further nine [...]

Trio of Stralis 4×2 tractors for long-distance operator

Kent-based CS Bull Ltd is taking delivery of three new Iveco Stralis Active Space Super³ tractor units, each finished in a jet black livery and built for long-distance operations across mainland Europe. Supplied by Haynes Trucks, the Stralis AS440S45T/P 4×2 tractor units are each plated at 40 tonnes and are left-hand drive coupled with long-range 1,160 [...]

Iveco Wins International Innovation Award

Iveco, designer and manufacturer of a broad range of light, medium and heavy commercial vehicles as well as public service vehicles, have been honoured with the Transport Innovation of the Year trophy in the Postal Technology International Awards for their fleet management telematics package, ‘Blue & Me Fleet©’, which was first introduced by Iveco at [...]

Guest Trucks becomes the third largest Iveco dealer in the UK

Guest Trucks has expanded its geographic territory to become the third largest Iveco dealer in the UK network. The West Bromwich-based dealer, which operates additional Iveco franchised sites in Wolverhampton, Birmingham and Coventry, has taken over responsibility for all new commercial vehicle sales for Iveco from Telford-based Furrows Commercial Vehicles with immediate effect.  This sees the [...]

Iveco ECODAILY Has The Right Credentials For G8

Iveco’s new light commercial vehicle, the ECODAILY manages to combine enhanced environmental credentials with great performance,  and it is these credentials that have seen the electric version of the vehicle, launched only one month ago, being chosen to support the work of Italy’s Civil Protection department at the high profile G8 Summit in L’Aquila, Italy. Completing [...]

Iveco supply Alc in biggest ever Trakker deal

Iveco Defence Vehicles has delivered the first specialist 6×6 Trakkers to ALC, an Amey and VT joint venture, to provide the Ministry of Defence (MoD) with its ‘C’ vehicle fleet, covering civil engineering and rough terrain mechanical handling capability. The delivery follows the signing of a significant contract with Iveco in November 2008 to supply 206 [...]

Iveco showcases latest LBM technology

All eyes were on Iveco’s natural gas powered Daily light commercial at the Low Carbon Vehicle Partnership’s exhibition earlier this week, as Boris Johnson, Mayor of London, stopped to talk to Iveco and Gasrec about the benefits of Liquid Biomethane (LBM). Hosted in Potters Field Park, on the southern side of the River Thames between City [...]

Iveco Backs Scrappage Scheme

Iveco has signed up to the UK’s car and van scrappage scheme, matching the Government incentive of £1,000 and thereby enabling customers to benefit from a total £2,000 discount on an Iveco Daily van or chassis cab at 3.5 tonnes. Andrea Bucci, Marketing Director at Iveco, says: “Customers can take part in this scheme with immediate [...]

New Contract Hails New Krone Purchase

Yorkshire based Transport Company Dennis Distribution the Yorkshire based Transport Company not only started 2009 with a new customer contract but that has led to them to purchase five new Krone Cool Liner trailers and five new Iveco tractor units. With an already existing fleet of 40 temperature controlled trailers, the new Krone additions will [...]

Iveco and Coca-Cola Enterprises drive innovation with hybrid Eurocargo

Iveco has delivered a Eurocargo diesel-electric parallel hybrid urban distribution vehicle to Coca-Cola Enterprises (CCE) at the European Business Summit in Brussels.  It marks the first such vehicle to be operational in an urban environment in Europe. The new prototype low-carbon vehicle was handed over to Hubert Patricot, President, Coca-Cola Enterprises Europe, by Franco Miniero, [...]

Iveco Daily sets out to explore the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (RBG Kew) has taken delivery of one of the most specialised Iveco Daily light commercials operating anywhere in the UK.  Named the ‘Explorer II’, it is designed to operate in conjunction with a train of three 24-person carriages and enables visitors to get an excellent overall introduction to the 326 [...]

Iveco to deliver 4,500 Daily’s to Deutsche Post

Deutsche Post has selected Iveco to be its commercial vehicle partner, with 4,500 of its 7,500-strong vehicle fleet currently used under the DHL brand in Germany due to be replaced with new Ivecos over the next three years. The new Iveco fleet forms part of a complete transport solution developed specifically to enable Deutsche Post to [...]

Iveco Daily adds New Dimension to Fire Service support

VT Support Services (VT) has taken delivery of four Iveco Daily 35S18 long wheelbase vans which are equipped as mobile maintenance units (MMU) to support the Fire and Rescue Services’ New Dimension specialist fleet of emergency vehicles and equipment modules. The four Dailys each offer 17.2m³ of load space – the largest of any panel van [...]

New Iveco website serves up special offers

Iveco has re-launched its website www.ivecovehicles.co.uk with a new design, structure and additional content aimed at highlighting the latest special offers available to UK customers through its nationwide dealer network. The site builds upon the wealth of corporate information available through www.iveco.co.uk and will be regularly updated, with incentives across the complete range of Iveco vehicles, [...]

Andrea Bucci extends responsibilities at Iveco UK

Iveco has announced the appointment of Andrea Bucci to the role of Network Strategy Director, in addition to his current responsibilities as Marketing Director. Bucci joined Iveco UK in July 2006 and has made a significant contribution in developing a market-focused strategy to meet the company’s five year plan of achieving a 15 per cent market [...]

Full house for Iveco’s EC Whole Vehicle Type Approval briefing

More than 100 bodybuilders gathered at Stockport Football Club yesterday, 18 February, for a technical briefing hosted by Iveco which focused on preparing for EC Whole Vehicle Type Approval. The seminar, believed to be the first held by any full-range commercial vehicle manufacturer in the UK, saw presentations from Tony Hopkins, Iveco’s Homologation and Bodybuilder Manager; [...]

Iveco leads the industry with EEV as standard

Iveco is leading the commercial vehicle industry in the UK by becoming the first manufacturer to offer its Eurocargo, Trakker and Stralis ranges to meet the stringent Enhanced Environmentally friendly Vehicle (EEV) level as standard. This follows two major trends Iveco has set previously in the truck sector by offering its trucks with automated EuroTronic gearboxes [...]

Safetykleen places significant Iveco Eurocargo fleet order

Iveco and Stormont Truck & Van have secured a major fleet order for 53 new Iveco Eurocargos from Safetykleen, the UK’s market leading parts-washing company. The deal marks one of the largest orders to be placed for Iveco’s new Eurocargo medium truck range, which now benefits from an automated EuroTronic transmission as standard on all 4×2 [...]

Iveco heavy truck range fuelled up for 2009

Iveco dealers across the UK are offering retail customers 1,000 litres of free fuel with the purchase and registration of any new Stralis or Trakker heavy truck until 31 March 2009. This first quarter special promotion is being run in conjunction with Key Fuels, with the free fuel able to be drawn from any site within [...]

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