Wyvern Cargo set for cash savings with Webfleet system

The company, which celebrates its 50th anniversary this year, has equipped 100 trailers with Webfleet’s Link 350 and Electronic Braking Performance Monitoring System (EBPMS) technology.

The move follows significant price increases announced by its trailer servicing provider to meet the additional costs of this month’s new DVSA trailer brake testing legislation.

Simon Sparrowhawk, operations director at Wyvern Cargo, said: “Transitioning from an annual brake test to one every 12 weeks not only increases costs but also leads to greater potential downtime and wasted manpower, as trailers require more frequent returns to depots for traditional rolling road brake tests.

“We ran the figures to compare the new trailer maintenance costs against Webfleet and it was a total no-brainer – the Webfleet solution allows us to track all of our 90+ trailers for the first time and save £25k at the same time.”

The EBPM system constantly tracks brake performance on the road against DVSA standards and sends any alert emails to the fleet team.

Webfleet’s HGV tracking has also been installed across 71 trucks. The system automatically links trucks to relevant trailers in the map view, so the Wyvern team don’t have to use two different menus. Tachograph data archiving is enabled via Webfleet TachoShare, which automatically downloads driver card data and vehicle unit data remotely.

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