Update: October 2026 fuel prices are out — see the latest figures here. Durban, 4 August 2026 — The official August fuel prices are confirmed. One line in the price structure changed the outcome for every operator. The Department of Mineral and Petroleum Resources has
Durban, 3 August 2026 — AARTO Phase 2 is one month old today. Fleets are discovering that the arithmetic matters more than the arguments. The nationwide rollout of the Administrative Adjudication of Road Traffic Offences system proceeded on 1 July. The Gauteng High Court had
Update: October 2026 fuel prices are out — see the latest figures here. Durban, 1 August 2026 — The final August fuel prices are in. The month ends the way the data warned it would. Closing Central Energy Fund figures point to wholesale diesel rising
Durban, 31 July 2026 — Botswana border queues in August are the risk nobody should be pricing at zero. From tomorrow, 1 August, the Botswana Unified Revenue Service requires pre-clearance for every commercial road freight movement into or out of the country. The truck may
Durban, 30 July 2026 — High risk hijacking vehicles are no longer just a security story. They have become an insurance condition. Discovery Insure has informed owners of certain Toyota Corolla Cross models that their vehicles now count as high risk for theft and hijacking.
Non-powered asset tracking solves a problem most South African operations only discover after something is gone: the trailer, generator or container had no power source, so it never carried a tracker, so nobody knows where it went. Conventional tracking assumes a vehicle — an ignition, wiring, a battery to draw
Update: October 2026 fuel prices are out — see the latest figures here. Durban, 29 July 2026 — The August diesel price outlook has taken two sharp turns in a week. The second one finally favours operators. The Central Energy Fund’s latest projections show wholesale
Fuel stock reconciliation is where operations and finance discover they have been describing the same diesel in two incompatible ways. Operations knows the tank was full on Monday and low on Friday. Finance knows what the supplier invoiced. Between those two facts sits a variance nobody can explain, and month
Fuel sensor accuracy is the first question most South African fleet operators ask about truck fuel monitoring, and it deserves a more honest answer than the industry usually gives. Here is the honest answer. A sensor in a diesel tank does not measure litres. It measures a level, and a
Driver identification systems stopped being a nice-to-have on 1 July 2026, when AARTO Phase 2 came into force across 62 South African municipalities. The change is administrative rather than dramatic. Traffic infringements in those municipalities now move through the Road Traffic Infringement Agency instead of the criminal courts. Notices go
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