TreadReader deployed at Big Motoring World
Big Motoring World, an independent use car dealer, is using the TreadReader 3D DriveOver ramp system to “improve productivity and efficiency” at its national preparation centre in Peterborough.
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Big Motoring World, an independent use car dealer, is using the TreadReader 3D DriveOver ramp system to “improve productivity and efficiency” at its national preparation centre in Peterborough.
Gordon Bruce, the well-known motoring writer and communications consultant, died a few days before Christmas. Bruce, who was 76, suffered a heart attack during a gym session, according to a Guild of Motoring Writers obituary. He was 76. He is survived by his wife Marilyn, children Alastair and Becky and his grandchildren.
The DVSA is conducting research into how technicians use digital devices at MOT test stations. The survey asks questions about devices used during the MOT test, if you use mobile devices such as phones and tablets during the MOT test, as well as how you use technology generally and how confident you feel using it.
UK fleet transactions through epyx’s 1link Service Network service, maintenance and repair (SMR) platform rose by 6 per cent during 2023. It was also strong year internationally, with the quantity of invoices raised by users in Denmark rising by 22 per cent in Ireland by 12 per cent, in France by 8 per cent and in Portugal by 7 per cent.
On 12 December 2023, Jinyu Tire Group held a groundbreaking ceremony for the company’s new passenger car and light truck tyre production project in Tay Ninh Province, Vietnam. The project is designed to provide tyre production capacity in three phases. The first phase is expected to reach production by early 2025. This project is an expansion of Jinyu (Vietnam) Tire Co., Ltd., which started in Vietnam in 2020 and produces truck and bus radial tyres (TBR).
East Anglia-based R. H. Claydon has been appointed as exclusive agent for Yokohama truck and bus tyres in the UK.
Describing Yokohama as “a well-known and tested brand in the UK with quality to match”, company representatives added that a new catalogue with details of 17.5-, 19.5- and 22.5-inch sizes is out now.
Following on from the execution of the Italian government’s golden power directive, which removed Sinochem’s power to appoint a chief executive, Pirelli’s major investors have struck an investment agreement that effectively gives increased control to Pirelli’s Italian shareholders as well as to executive Marco Tronchetti-Provera’s eponymous company.
In the middle of this year – more precisely from 4-6 June – “The Tire Cologne” will open its doors again. The leading trade fair for the tyre industry will then take place in Cologne for the third time. But again, the conditions are somehow completely different: If the premiere took place in 2018 and therefore before the corona pandemic, the second edition – actually planned for 2020 – made a very respectable “restart” after being postponed to 2022 due to the pandemic and did so again a step towards normalization, so what exactly follows number three? Our international colleagues at Neue Reifenzeitung spoke about this with Ingo Riedeberger, who acts as “Tire Cologne” director at the organizer Koelnmesse GmbH. According to him, the pandemic has acted “like a turning point” for trade fairs, and the event about tyres/wheels, retreading/recycling and workshop/vehicle service, which starts in Cologne in a few months, is no exception. Nevertheless, it remains an “issue driver in the global tyre industry”. And even if companies plan a possible presence there “more quickly than before the pandemic”, they still expect “the event to be revived”. With the same hall set-up as in 2022, Koelnmesse will have around half more exhibitors than two years ago, when there were 300 and in 2018 there were a good 530.
Beta Tools UK & Ireland has appointed Lee Abrahams as sales manager for the UK 3D Beta and Projects division. 3D Beta, part of Beta Utensili SpA Group, designs and installs modern workshop architecture. 3D Beta supports manufacturers and professionals in the automotive, motorcycle, and industrial sectors “on the path of researching and implementing effective workshop solutions”.
Following the news that Michelin has bought Australian e-commerce business Tyroola, Tyres & Accessories observed that the company also operates certain websites in Europe via a Dutch legal entity – Tyroola B.V.
GSF Car Parts executive chairman Sukhpal Singh Ahluwalia and CEO Steve Horne pledged to “invest, expand and improve” the automotive aftermarket business at the firm’s Supercharged for Success staff conference in mid-December 2023. Among the topics covered at the event were the company’s plans to open “a substantive number” of new branches in early 2024.
CTP, Europe’s largest industrial and logistics property manager by gross lettable area (GLA), has leased 18,000 sqm to FIEGE, a leading provider of logistics and transport services in Europe, at a new 71,000 sqm industrial and logistics building which is currently under development at CTPark Žatec in the Czech Republic.
Ecobat Battery, the UK’s largest battery distributor, has worked with MAM Software to update its Autocat data. According to the company, the update “completely revitalises the application links and includes extensive OE and aftermarket cross references for both the…Lucas, and value orientated, Numax brands.” In addition to the revised data linkages, the data also includes product images “to provide an even greater level of accuracy during the specification process”.
Michelin has bought Tyroola, Australia’s third-largest tyre e-tailer. As result of the purchase, Michelin intends to “further strengthen its knowledge of customer behaviour and the purchasing process”. Tyroola will continue to operate under its existing brand.
Transense Technologies plc has appointed Kevin Hennelly as sales director of its Translogik business unit. Hennelly brings more than 15 years of experience from the commercial vehicle fleet telematics industry with global telematics business Teletrac Navman and more recently he was responsible for delivering rapid growth at UK-based fleet technology specialist Lightfoot over a five-year period.
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