Jim’s Franchise brings tyre replacement to your door With 35 years experience working in the automotive industry, many spent as a tyre store manager, Russell Langham was looking for a change and the chance to work for himself. Knowing the tyre industry inside out, the solution for Russell was to take on a franchise operation for a relatively new division ...

Iveco’s Daily joins forces with Avida for maximum mobility camping Regular readers will be aware of the many attributes of the IVECO Daily van and cab-chassis range but here’s one example that’s particularly impressive and appealing to those with mobility challenges. Motorhome manufacturer Avida was the first local motorhome manufacturer to provide a wheelchair access motorhome as a production unit. ...

Iveco shows it is well placed for local urban distribution – Words and Images by Brenton O’Connor. With the massive growth in e-commerce and online business, including a grocery home delivery trend led by the likes of Coles and Woolworths, light trucks sales have risen dramatically. When someone is contemplating purchasing either a single van or a fleet of light ...

Winning the International Van of the Year Award for 2018 sets the scene for IVECO’s latest Daily – Words by Ed Higginson. With Iveco adding to the appeal of the impressive Daily van and cab/chassis range with several upgrades in 2017, the latest version with Euro 6 technology continues to keep the range as a top contender. Back in late ...

As distributors of natural food products, Ian Ward and his wife Linda of ‘Earthly Indulgence’ spend long hours on the road each day delivering a range of goods to supermarkets, cafes, health food shops, chemists and fitness and well-being centres. Such is the workload that the couple have equipped their 12m³ IVECO Daily 50C van as a mobile office, this ...

The IVECO Daily range has been a story of continuing improvement since its launch, as the Italian manufacturer fine tunes the specification for the Australian market to make it very much more competitive and decidedly more attractive to purchase. The Daily light-commercial range encompasses vans of all sizes, from low-roof models to high-roof, varying length wheelbases, and increased cargo volumes ...

Rob Randazzo and Brenton O’Connor review the small to medium van sector. Visitors to Sydney airport can gain an immediate impression of the importance of the van segment to the courier market simply by walking past the huge DHL courier depot located adjacent to the domestic terminal. It’s a hive of activity as dozens of yellow bee-like Ford Transits of ...

The van and cab/chassis sector suddenly gets a lot more competitive – Chris Mullett reports on the latest updates to the Iveco Daily  Last year Iveco celebrated its 40th anniversary as a commercial vehicle organisation that was formed in 1975 from a union of five European company brands comprising Magirus-Deutz, Fiat Industrial Vehicles, Lancia, Unic and OM. In 1992 Iveco ...

Stuart Martin reviews the large-van segment Some vehicles find a way of becoming greater than the sum of their parts, and the Renault Master is one that manages to achieve such a feat. The big French commercial van has the forklift-friendly barn rear doors and a sliding door kerbside that can also take a load on a pallet; the test ...

The van and cab/chassis sector suddenly gets a lot more competitive – Chris Mullett reports on the latest updates to the Iveco Daily Last year Iveco celebrated its 40th anniversary as a commercial vehicle organisation that was formed in 1975 from a union of five European company brands comprising Magirus-Deutz, Fiat Industrial Vehicles, Lancia, Unic and OM. In 1992 Iveco ...