The courier services team was interested by a report from the Institute for Fiscal Studies, funded by the RAC Foundation, that has suggested that a “radical overhaul” of road taxes is necessary. Fuel and Vehicle Excise duties currently raise about £38bn a year but are set to fall to the equivalent of £25bn in 2029-30, [...]

The courier services team at Anyvan aren’t big fans of potholes, and we’re sure you aren’t either – they damage vehicles and cost motorists an estimated £320 million pounds every year. Well, the nemesis of man and van teams and delivery companies everywhere will hopefully be a little less of a regular occurrence if the [...]

The courier services team were rather tickled to come across a story in today’s Telegraph about the geographical differences thrown up by an in-depth analysis of the UK’s MoT records. It turns out that the area you live or drive in has a big effect on the reasons your vehicle might fail its MoT. Motoring [...]

Last month, on April the 1st in fact, the courier services team posted a story about driverless vehicles that were about to be launched on the unsuspecting roads of Oxford. We were, as you might expect, suspicious that this was a bit of an April Fools’ joke but we never found out if the Sunday [...]

The courier services team are waiting with interest to find out the result of the tanker driver ballot on Friday as we’ll then know whether a fuel strike is on the cards or not. If it is, we want to be prepared, as we think all delivery companies  and man and van teams will want [...]

Well, hopefully. The courier services team were very pleased to read about Honda’s development of traffic jam avoidance technology. Developed in partnership with the Research Centre for Advanced Science and Technology at the University of Tokyo, the system works by monitoring the acceleration and deceleration patterns of a vehicle to determine whether the driver’s actions [...]