DHL Global Forwarding, the leading international provider of air, ocean, and road freight services, has announced that it will operate the smart devices distribution hub in Dubai for Honor, a leading global technology company. The hub will distribute Honor’s products to more than 30 countries across the Middle East and […]
Road accidents cost our country billions of Rands each year. According to the Department of Transport’s January to June 2020 State of Road Safety Report, the total cost from major, minor and damage-only road crashes amounted to an estimated R170.6 billion in 2019. This impact is measured in terms of […]
The topic of VECTO and the EU Emissions Regulation currently ranks among the most pressing challenges for the haulage industry. The industry’s CO2 emissions are to undergo radical reduction by 2030, and the tyre selection process is of direct relevance here. To make that process more transparent, Continental is providing […]
I come across this all the time: People have their insurance claims repudiated (rejected) or they face criminal charges, based on speed data acquired from so-called “Tracker Reports.” Most modern vehicles in most countries where asset recovery is a topic of interest are fitted with some or other “Tracking System.” […]
There was a time when qualification was based on ‘paper’. If someone was an engineer, a doctor, a professor or held any degree, they were regarded with nothing short of respect and trust. In the field of Crash Scene Reconstruction, things are somewhat different. From the beginning of (crash reconstruction) time, there […]
Humanitarian crises will always have significant implications for businesses. Covid-19 has put pressure on economic growth, causing a massive slowdown in world trade and disruptions across global supply chains. What is more, companies that built markets on the back of an integrated global trade network have felt the vulnerabilities that […]
– MiX Telematics (JSE: MIX, NYSE: MIXT) a leading global provider of fleet and mobile asset management solutions delivered as Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), released statistics that indicate that the lockdown has had a positive effect on vehicle crime and road-related incidents mainly due to the 74% decline in vehicle usage and […]
Due to movement restrictions, most South African vehicles have had little use during lockdown and this has resulted in time and money savings for their owners. Tracker’s anonymised vehicle tracking data aggregated from the company’s installed vehicle base and analytics from Lightstone indicates that on average, reduced use of passenger […]
UD Trucks Telematics Services will now come standard on every new UD Trucks vehicle purchased, backdated to 1 March 2020. “Technology such as telematics, will play an increasingly important role in the ever-changing transport environment,” stated Filip Van den Heede, managing director of UD Trucks Southern Africa. “It empowers fleet […]
The Ctrack Freight & Transport Index for February 2020 shows an overall freight volume decline of 4,8% versus the same period a year ago. While substantial, the fall is less than the 5,1% decline in freight volumes reported in January 2020 compared to January 2019. Graph 1: Recent performance of […]
