Raising your game
Workshop equipment – including pits, lifting equipment, and the fixtures and tools required to make lanes and technicians more efficient – continue to improve. Toby Clark reports
Lane discipline
Selecting workshop equipment, services and training to maximise efficiency, market appeal and compliance need not be as challenging as it seems. Steve Banner explains
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Shop solutions
Workshops may be caught between a company’s need to economise, its needs for vehicle reliability and the requirement for safety. A number of industry schemes can help, reports Peter Shakespeare
Expensive business?
With the array of equipment required to maintain modern commercial vehicles, does it still make sense to run in-fleet workshops? Steve Banner finds out
Fully equipped
Tools and technologies for workshops believe aren't standing still. John Challen reviews progress around ramps, pits and testing lanes through the eyes of BT Fleet and Bullwell Trailer Solutions
Go wireless
New workshop management systems are claiming to boost technicians' performance and efficiency, not least through their automated communications. John Challen finds out whether they are worth the price
The tiger’s tail
MOT first time pass rates for vans in the 3.0—3.5 gvw range are getting worse, not better. Steve Banner examines the issues and potential consequences of further failures
Uplifting equipment
Healthily sceptical workshop managers may be missing some tricks, as new equipment enables better, faster truck and van maintenance. Brian Tinham reports
Workshop in progress
Fleet managers need their vehicles serviced in the shortest possible time, at lowest cost, and with the highest levels of compliance and professionalism. Steve Banner looks at some technologies that may help tick some boxes