RHA Associate Members Update March 2011
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to March's Associate e-newsletter! RHA Associate members are dedicated to supporting the haulage industry and thorough their membership can offer haulage operators an extensive supply of quality products and services tailored to the road transport market. This issue includes articles from Continental Tyres, Vigo Logistics and Teleroute whose products and services may be of interest to you.
Continental Tyres face-up to fuel increases with whole-life cost advantage
Continental Tyres says choosing the right tyre for your road transport application is key to making long-term cost savings and reducing whole-life costs. With this in mind Continental offers commercial vehicle operators a holistic solution to tyre management in the form of ContiLifeCycle. This cradle-to-grave tyre management product offering outlines how CV operators can save up to 25% on their tyre operating costs throughout the entire life of the tyre, therefore ensuring they get maximum value for money from their Continental tyres.
Jill Rodgers, Marketing Manager, Commercial Products at Continental, said, "It is very important for operators to look at the whole-life cost of a specific tyre before purchase. Budget tyres can seem more attractive to a commercial vehicle operator because they have a lower purchase price compared to a premium-brand product. However, the cheaper cost price can be misleading as our extensive internal tests show that a budget tyre won't match a premium tyre in terms of low rolling resistance, safety and retreadability".
To demonstrate the influence of rolling resistance on fuel economy, Continental conducted an in-depth test at the Millbrook Proving Ground:
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Each and every Continental truck and coach tyre is designed with ContiLifeCycle in mind. By integrating this service into all its products, operators stand to benefit from additional mileage and potentially four lives from their tyres.
It starts with choosing the right tyre for the specific road transport application, be it long distance, inter-urban or city-based driving. Continental estimates that a third of operating costs derived from a truck-and-trailer combination are influenced, positively or negatively, by the choice of a new tyre.
Once the new tread has worn, then depending on the application, the customer can then regroove the tyre to extend the operating life even further. Once the regrooved tyre reaches the end of its use the operator can then retread the tyre.
Continental's high-quality casings ensure that its tyres can be retreaded and undergo a full examination by its engineers before being given a brand new tread. ContiRe is a premium retread range, which offers all the inherent benefits of a new premium tyre - i.e improved mileage, reduced fuel consumption, superior rolling resistance and reduced operational efficiency - just at a lower purchase price.
As all Continental's products are manufactured to exacting standards, the retreaded tyres can be regrooved for a second and final time, therefore giving the customer complete cost transparency throughout the life of the tyre.
Find out more at www.conti-online.co.uk/truck
Vigo Logistics Management Software - New product launch
MIPs™- Deditrack™- HeliosHub
End-to-end logistics software solutions developed and supported by highly skilled technicians based in the UK. Vigo Software's passion and dedication to customers combined with the ingenuity of its solutions has set it apart from the crowd. Vigo products can be found in the RHA Haulier's Shop under Driver and Vehicle Accessories.
New products to be launched at the CV Show, Hall 5 Stand 5F30: MIPs ™ (Management Information Portal), Deditrack ™ (Dedicated customer's consignment tracking) and HeliosHub Web based multi depot solution. Vigo look forward to welcoming existing and prospective new customers. Visit www.vigosoftware.com or contact us at support@vigosoftware.com or on 01527 551500 for more information.
Teleroute customers will further increase time efficiency with a renewed service
• The new Teleroute PRO roll out was a success
• Teleroute continuously enhances its’ services for its customer this time focused on enabling them faster freight exchange operations
• More than 30.000 users benefit from the upgraded version of the freight and vehicle exchange
Brussels, 19th March 2011- Teleroute announces a successful roll out of its renewed service Teleroute PRO. Since 1985 that the company has continuously been innovating in the online freight and vehicles exchange, and after a deep understanding of its customer needs it has brought them an enhanced, faster, better and easier to use service aiming to improve their operations efficiency.
Teleroute is always challenging itself to improve what it offers to its customers to even better answer their needs. With close attention to customers’ feedback and needs, Teleroute has been able to simplify the daily task of searching for freight offerings by creating a faster, better and easier version of Teleroute PRO. Last year, after carefully assessing the results of the customer satisfaction survey, a prototype of the new service version was given to a selected customer user group. Users’ feedback was gathered, analysed and finally implemented. The launch took place between end of January and beginning of February, currently having more than 96% of its Teleroute PRO users already utilizing it.
Teleroute PRO is a powerful web-based freight and vehicle exchange that has been created for haulers and freight forwarders, be it customers with high offer of freights (posting) and truck capacity available (consultation). The innovative design and service functions enable the users to grow and to develop their business further by helping them to serve their clients and partners efficiently and rapidly. The re-launched version grants faster results, better search functionalities and ease of use.
All these improvements put together brings direct benefits to its customers improving time related efficiencies. As the economy is picking up, and hence it does the transport sector, the faster the freight search results are the better is for all parties involved in the freight transaction, those who have the available freight and those who have truck capacity. Hence, time factor, be it faster deals, is crucial for the business and that is what Teleroute promises to its customers as one of their core benefit.
“Based on the feedback from our customers we continuously improve our solutions to boost the efficiency and productivity of the users. We trust that the renewed Teleroute PRO will deliver the value-added services our customers expect from us”. Says Michel Van Velthoven, Chief Marketing Officer of Teleroute.
For more information please visit us at www.teleroute.com
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