Entries by FleetBoard UK

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.

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

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.

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