{"id":5788,"date":"2014-01-31T16:30:46","date_gmt":"2014-01-31T16:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/?p=5788"},"modified":"2014-01-31T16:31:51","modified_gmt":"2014-01-31T16:31:51","slug":"kate-pippa-take-to-road-in-qms-sprinters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/5788","title":{"rendered":"Kate &#038; Pippa Take To Road In QMS Sprinters"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5789\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5789\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5789\" alt=\"One of QMS' new Mercedes-Benz Sprinters\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/mercedes-sprinter-qms-sm.jpg\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/mercedes-sprinter-qms-sm.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/mercedes-sprinter-qms-sm-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5789\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">One of QMS&#8217; new Mercedes-Benz Sprinters, &#8216;Kate&#8217;.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The most famous &#8216;named&#8217; vehicles on UK roads are probably those operated by haulier Eddie Stobart, but it&#8217;s a surprisingly popular practice.<\/p>\n<p>Take road marking and specialist surfacing business Quality Marking Services, for example.<\/p>\n<p>The firm&#8217;s seven-truck fleet is all named, and when it took delivery of two brand-new Sprinters recently, QMS invited its customers and staff members to suggest a pair of sisters&#8217; names for the new vans.<\/p>\n<p>The most popular choices &#8212; &#8220;by a landslide&#8221;, according to Greg Clark, QMS operations director, were Kate and Pippa, a.k.a. the Duchess of Cambridge and her sister.<\/p>\n<p>Based in Newton Abbot, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/4584\">new Sprinters<\/a> are 313 CDi models that carry a variety of equipment and materials for use in applying internal markings, such as those found on the floors of warehouses, factories and supermarket aisles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Specialist surfacing and marking firm QMS has taken delivery of two brand-new Mercedes-Benz Sprinters, which the firm&#8217;s staff and customers voted to name Kate and Pippa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[1827,1738,1828,1829],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5788"}],"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=5788"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5793,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5788\/revisions\/5793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}