FleetBoard UK News

It's that time of year again, when truck drivers from all across Europe go head to head to demonstrate their driving expertise and prove that they have what it takes to be the best in the FleetBoard Drivers' League.

2009 marks the 7th FleetBoard pan European Drivers' League and the competition is set to be hotter than ever since for the first time, the Drivers' League will be held in parallel competitions. This year, from 1st to 30th June, all Mercedes-Benz truck drivers who have activated the FleetBoard Performance Analysis in full MB mode can compete in national leagues of efficient driving with passion and ambition.

The FleetBoard driver grades are decisive for the ranking and are based on consumption and braking levels during your daily business.

Only the best drivers from each national league will proceed to the live final. These top drivers will prove their worth in various driving tasks at the European Final in Germany before the overall European champion is selected.

It won't be easy since every tour counts, so why not challenge your limits and register for TRUCKERMANIA at www.driversleague.com before 28th May 2009. Every registered participant will receive a mini drum filled with sweets courtesy of Shell.

For further information on prizes, participation conditions, rules, and for efficient driving hints and tips click here.

Springtime is also the time for the well known transport logistic which takes place every two years in Munich. From 12th - 15th May 2009 1,700 exhibitors from 55 countries will represent the world of transport at the Munich trade fair. With a single visit you can gather information from all kinds of fields such as transport services and telematics.

To provide you with inspiration and the tools for the economic and fuel-efficient organisation of your business FleetBoard will be giving product presentations on the complete solution for digital tachographs according to the TACHOready standard, with which all tachodata can be read out easily from the workplace, and the new FleetBoard Truck Navigation. We will also tell you how you can save 10% on your insurance premiums through the installation of FleetBoard

We welcome you all to this year's trade fair and look forward to seeing you on our FleetBoard stand which is situated in hall A6, by the east entrance, stand 201/302.
Our co-exhibitors Mercedes-Benz CharterWay, Mercedes-Benz Bank and Dornier Consulting also look forward to your visit.
Sufficient seating, drinks and snacks will be provided to ensure your comfort at our stand.

If you have any questions regarding transport logistic or would like to arrange a personal meeting with us at the show then please email christiana.fimpel@daimler.com and she will assist with your enquiry.

We look forward to seeing you there!!

FleetBoard Tachomanagement with Mass Memory Download according to the TACHOready standard is now available.

FleetBoard is the first telematics supplier to offer tachograph management based on the TACHOready standard and supply a cost-effective complete solution for your digital tachographs.

TACHOready is a new standard with which FleetBoard demonstrates that its telematics systems have the capability to export the data from driver cards and mass storage units of the new digital tachograph without the need for a company card in the vehicle, to archive data and provide the data for analysis.

The new FleetBoard tachomanagement allows companies greater freedom and more time to focus on the basics.



Company cards can now be kept at the company headquarters and vehicles no longer have to return to base for the legally required data downloads from mass storage units and driver cards since, from the workplace, tachograph data is conveniently exported and stored, for up to 36 months in the secure FleetBoard Service Centre, by means of remote data transfer.

Save ££££'s per year on each vehicle!

For further information please call +44 (0) 1827 311912 or click here

To request a flyer on the FleetBoard Mass Memory Download, or any of our FleetBoard literature please email nicola.dainter@fleetboard.co.uk.

A very well deserving Gary Martin of 21st Century Logistics has been officially crowned as FleetBoard's 'UK Driver of the Year 2008'.



Joined by 21st Century Managing Director, David Pink, Commercial Manager, John Robson, and FleetBoard Corporate Account Manager, Mark Sach, Gary was presented with his engraved winners trophy and prizes at the 21st Century headquarters in Sittingbourne, Kent.

Gary topped the 2008 UK Driver of the Year competition, which ran from 1st - 30th June 2008 in addition to the overall European competition, with a driver grading of 9.43 and a degree of difficulty of 4.97, and ranked 122nd in the overall European League.

For the full story on Gary's success click here.

Congratulations again to Gary, we look forward to another exciting competition later on this year.

To sum up the highlights of the 2nd half of 2008 let’s delve into the FleetBoard world with “FleetBoard highlights”. The magazine will certainly evoke shared memories: the International customer event with its classic car tour near Stuttgart or the rousing Drivers’ League live final near Berlin.
At this year's Commercial Vehicles Motor Show in Hannover we discussed the importance of an advanced solution for tachograph data. The present Christmas magazine reports more on this and about internal events like the night-time operation of an IT-team colleague or our Sales Team’s overnight stay in more than 40 trucks.

To request an electronic copy of 'fleetboard highlights' please email nicola.dainter@fleetboard.co.uk.

We hope you enjoy reading our magazine as much as we enjoyed creating it for you.

FleetBoard is preparing for the upcoming IAA Commercial Vehicle Show which is being held from 25 September to 2 October 2008 in Hannover. This year's show is set to be very popular and a record number of exhibitors and visitors from around Europe are expected to attend.

FleetBoard will provide a number of reasons to visit this years' show including live demonstrations of fuel economy and efficiency in Logistics processes. We will also present the automatic download of the mass storage data of the digital tachograph as we are the first supplier to offer this functionality. Furthermore we will showcase the new DispoPilot which enables optimal operation, contains navigation by default and leads the driver to their destination taking into consideration vehicle attributes.

This year a FleetBoard UK representative will also be at the show. Martin Dungworth, FleetBoard UK's Head of Sales, will be present on behalf of FleetBoard UK to attend to any enquiries from English speaking visitors.

We welcome you all to this year's IAA Show and look forward to seeing you on our FleetBoard stand which is located in the Mercedes-Benz hall 14/15.

If you have any questions regarding the show then please feel free to email them to christiana.fimpel@daimler.com and she will assist you with your enquiry.

Thankfully you do not have to wait until the IAA Commercial Vehicle Show in September for further news and updates on FleetBoard, in the meantime we recommend that you browse through our 'fleetboard highlights' magazine.

In the first half of 2008 many interesting things happened in the FleetBoard world. Our Sales Team Leader from FleetBoard Germany, Martin Anke, took the challenge of a 1,600 km truck tour from the Eifel to Austria, the top 20 participants in the drivers' league entered the master class, the driver card download was recognised as the first European-wide solution and was certified by DEKRA, FleetBoard scooped 1st place in the 'telematics' category, of a famous German transport and logistics magazine (VerkehrsRundschau) and much much more.

To request an electronic copy of 'fleetboard highlights' please email nicola.dainter@fleetboard.co.uk.

We hope you enjoy reading our magazine as much as we enjoyed creating it for you.

Congratulations to the winner of the UK Driver League competition, our new FleetBoard 'UK Driver of the Year 2008' Gary Martin of 21st Century Logistics.

Gary secured first place in the UK League with a driver grading of 9.43 and a degree of difficulty of 4.97, and ranked 122nd in the overall European League.


Actros fan Gary Martin of 21st Century Logistics became FleetBoard's 'UK Driver of the Year 2008'.

Gary will be presented with his prizes, including an engraved FleetBoard trophy, on the opening day of 2009's Commercial Vehicle Show.

Thanks to all our UK entries who made this years' Drivers' League such an exciting close competition, we look forward to even more entries next year and another fight for the title.

A full list of scores and rankings can be found at www.driversleague.com

For the full story on Gary's success click here.

From 1st - 30th June 2008 we will be running our 6th annual pan European 'FleetBoard Drivers' League' competition.

There were over 2000 entries last year, and this year we are expecting even more professional truck drivers from across Europe to take part in the individual driver competition. Mercedes-Benz drivers will individually compete to demonstrate the most economic, anticipatory and safe driving style and rank in amongst the top 20. These top performers will then be invited to the live final for a chance to win and be crowned 'FleetBoard Driver of the Year 2008'.

The first place prize is a DTM racing weekend for 2 people. Sponsors of this event are Mercedes-Benzz Charterway, Mercedes-Benz ProfiTraining, and Mercedes-Benz Accessories GmbH.

Participants' driving skills are evaluated by the FleetBoard performance analysis service during their daily work, and weekly publications of the interim results can be seen at www.driversleague.com.

For the second year running, in addition to the overall European competition, a contest will be held exclusively for UK drivers to identify the top 'UK Driver of the Year 2008'. The UK winner will be determined using the data from the European competition and will receive a specially engraved FleetBoard trophy.

For further information on prizes, competition rules, and for registration please go to www.driversleague.com.

For the past five years FleetBoard have run a Driver of the Year competition open to all of their fleets throughout Europe. The results are determined by the FleetBoard driver grading system which rewards the most economic, anticipatory and safe driving styles.
Last year for the first time, UK drivers were displayed in a UK league, as well as the full International league, and FleetBoard UK awarded a trophy for the UK Driver of the Year 2007 and UK Fleet of the Year 2007.
Two presentations were made on the FleetBoard section of the Mercedes-Benz stand on the opening day of this year's Commercial Vehicle Show.

21st Century Logistics were presented with the 'UK Fleet of the Year 2007' trophy which they won with an average driver grading of 8.59 and an average degree of difficulty of 5.2 over the four week competition period.

Picture shows left to right: Jim Dodd, John Robson, David Pink (21st Century), Jens Zeller (Daimler FleetBoard GmbH), John Baker (Mercedes-Benz UK).

Ray Davies of Imperial Tankers was presented with the 'UK Driver of the Year 2007' trophy. Ray achieved consistently high driver grades despite operating over difficult routes, he took victory with a driving style grading of 9.13 and a degree of difficulty of 4.27.

Picture shows left to right: Ray Mullard (Daimler FleetBoard UK), Ray Davies (Imperial Tankers), Jens Zeller (Daimler FleetBoard GmbH), John Baker (Mercedes-Benz UK), Dave Bardon (Imperial Tankers).

Tomorrow is the opening day of Britain's largest Transport and Logistics event at the NEC, Birmingham, and all finalisations are underway.

Come and see our Business Development Managers at the show on the Mercedes-Benz stand, 8-411, for a live presentation of the FleetBoard functionality, for any enquiries and to see how FleetBoard can help your business.

We look forward to seeing you all there.

...FleetBoard has proven savings on fuel consumption and other operational costs.

Based on the results of the 5th FleetBoard European Driver League competition, which used the FleetBoard performance anaylsis service to evaluate and rank the safest and most economic driving styles, we established the winners of our UK competition - 2007 UK Driver of the Year, Ray Davies (Imperial Tankers UK Ltd) - 2007 UK Fleet of the Year, 21st Century Logistics.

Presentations to our UK winners will be made on the FleetBoard section of the Mercedes-Benz stand at 11.50am and 12.00 mid-day on 15th April, the opening day of the CV Show.

The FleetBoard digital driver card download has been certified by DEKRA Certification GmbH. The DEKRA certificate confirms that Daimler FleetBoard's 'driver card download' product meets all statutory requirements with reference to reliable download, and secure transmission and provision of the driver card data to the user.

Since the market launch in November 2007 the FleetBoard driver card download has succesfully demonstrated its advantages in thousand of downloads.

Independant of the installation of the digital tachograph, the driver card can be directly downloaded in the vehicle. After inserting the driver card into the card slot on the FleetBoard on-board computer, all data from the driver card is sent to the transport office at the push of a button, without the driver or vehicle having to return to base. If a GPRS link is not available, the computer can temporarily store as many as twelve driver cards. The driver card data including the digital signature, are archived, with two backups, in the secure Daimler Computing Centre for up to 24 months and can be read using any hours' analysis package via the FleetBoard interface.

To expand on our online communications we have newly established our FleetBoard UK blog. We look forward to keeping our customers, and visitors to our FleetBoard UK web site, up to date with FleetBoard news and events.

For further information on FleetBoard and our products and services click here.