Commercial vehicle production up for the first time in 17 months

Ultimate Van Blog could do with a bit of good news, what with accusations of being a shoe bomber while in the queue at Iceland, and then the incident with Russian dating website, so the announcement that commercial vehicle output has risen for the first time in 17 months (up 15.6% in December 2009) has been greeted with enthusiasm.

But before we all start ordering Thai Brides, there was an overall drop of 55.3% for 2009 compared with the previous year...but it's a start.

Ultimate Van Blogger comes up with revised scrappage scheme

It seems that 2009 was a bad year for new van buying, as if you didn’t know…total sales were down a rather sharp 35.6% to 186,386…and two Bedford Rascals.