Vehicle Inspection Savings

“Hills Waste Solutions delivers specialist waste management and recycling services to a wide variety of commercial customers across the West Country and central southern England.

With a large customer base stretching from Bristol, through Wiltshire and Berkshire, keeping our fleet roadworthy is critical. The majority of our 60 large goods vehicles have now transitioned from regular diesel to HVO and have achieved a 97% service reliability rate. In addition to our regular PMI service inspections, we have utilised Logistics UK’s Vehicle Inspection Service (VIS) for many years. This is a valuable service for us as, it serves as an additional compliance control measure, and helps us keep our fleet roadworthy and compliant. Last year alone the Logistics UK VIS checks saved us thousands of pounds in avoidable costs, resulting from unforeseen downtime. For our business, these savings make a huge difference.”

Long term customers, international defence company Babcock International Group (Babcock), have partnered with Logistics UK for more than 20 years to deliver a range of fleet engineering and transport services.

“Working alongside Logistics UK, who provide us with quality monitoring vehicle inspections and a range of other important services, is not only a cost-effective solution for us, but means we can continually monitor, review and further improve the performance of our maintenance providers which is essential for us with managing a complex and critical fleet of vehicles.”

SUEZ recycling and recovery UK employs more than 7000 people, operating across hundreds of sites, and handles approximately 11 million tonnes of waste materials every year – a significant proportion of the UK’s total waste. Through collection, treatment, recycling and logistics operations, it serves more than 30,000 business customers and millions of householders throughout the country.

“We engage Logistics UK for quality monitoring vehicle inspections, as recommended by the DVSA’s Guide to Maintaining Roadworthiness. Their robust inspection service gives us confidence that our maintenance systems are solid and fully compliant. Over the past year, these inspections identified defects early, preventing costly downtime and likely saving the company thousands of pounds. This insight helps us make smarter, more proactive maintenance decisions.”

Operator A – One of the UK’s largest road and rail freight logistics providers runs a fleet of over 1,300 trucks and has utilised Logistics UK’s Vehicle Inspection Service for more than a decade.

“The inspection service delivered by Logistics UK’s engineers allows us to monitor the quality of our network of maintenance providers across the UK whilst also highlighting areas of improvement in our own driver walkaround checking process. Using this service has saved us a significant sum by the timely reporting of defects – saving us vehicle downtime mid-operation which is vital to the successful management and utilisation of our fleet.”