{"id":3152,"date":"2012-03-30T16:06:34","date_gmt":"2012-03-30T16:06:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/?p=3152"},"modified":"2012-03-30T16:09:22","modified_gmt":"2012-03-30T16:09:22","slug":"van-excellence-wins-fleet-news-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/3152","title":{"rendered":"Van Excellence Wins Fleet News Award"},"content":{"rendered":"

Van Excellence, the national accreditation scheme for van operators, has been recognised as the Best New Service at the Fleet News Awards 2012.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Van Excellence, which is managed and delivered by the Freight Transport Association<\/a>, was launched in 2010 to promote high standards of van operation and driving by accrediting operators against an industry code of good practice.\u00a0 In the 18 months since the scheme launched, 24 fleets have achieved accreditation to the Van Excellence Code, with 33 undergoing audit and a further 43 registering interest and preparing for audit.\u00a0 The scheme announced its 100th registered member last week and now has over 100,000 vehicles within its membership.<\/p>\n

The Guide to Van Excellence has also been launched giving advice on good practices for van operators and guidance on how to meet the standards in the Van Excellence Code<\/p>\n

Collecting the award at the Fleet News Awards event held in London<\/a> on 21 March, Mark Cartwright, Head of Vans and Light Commercial Vehicles at FTA said:<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a tribute to the members and colleagues that have helped to make Van Excellence a success.\u00a0 There is still much to do but it is gratifying that our efforts on behalf of the van sector have been recognised by the industry.\u00a0 We are all honoured at FTA by this award.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

The Van Excellence Code was agreed by operators acting as a Governance Group and requires systems to be in place to check vehicle roadworthiness, driver entitlement, load security and other safety aspects.\u00a0 The standard exceeds the minimum requirements of the current law and selects and adapts the requirements of O-licensing normally applied to trucks for the van sector.<\/p>\n

Accredited operators need to present themselves for re-audit every year to ensure standards are maintained.<\/p>\n

vanrental.co.uk says:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Although Van Excellence is not really something that’s appropriate to the van rental<\/a> market, it is a praiseworthy initiative for any fleet operator to be involved in. Large, heavily-loaded vans need to be treated by their drivers as ‘proper’ goods vehicles, not as oversized cars or mobile skips.<\/p>\n

Although many van operators (and van drivers) do already have very high professional standards, the Van Excellence scheme enables them to demonstrate this and uphold the good reputation of white van man!<\/p>\n

To find out more, visit www.vanexcellence.co.uk<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The FTA’s Van Excellence scheme, which requires van operators to apply large goods vehicle operating standards to their van operations, has won the Best New Service Award at the Fleet News Awards 2012.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[547,98,1430,1428,43,1429],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3152"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3152"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3156,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3152\/revisions\/3156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}