DUNTON, UK - For a small business, a single van off the road can cost €700 a day, but there is a solution. Ford Pro uses data from over 1.2 million connected vehicles to predict issues before they happen, turning dealers into productivity partners that keep businesses on the road and earning.
“At Ford Pro, we’ve realised that our job isn’t just to sell vehicles - it’s to keep the engine room of the European economy moving,” explains Hans Schep, General Manager, Ford Pro, Europe.
“We’ve built a structural advantage that no competitor can easily replicate. With over 800 Transit Centres and a network of 200 accredited convertors, we have the largest dedicated commercial footprint on the continent. But the real secret sauce is how we are now layering intelligence over that physical scale.”
Since 2021, FORDLiive Centres have forged a deep, real-time connection with Ford’s Transit Centre network. This synergy has fundamentally accelerated repair times and delivered a staggering 3,160,476 additional days of uptime — over three million days where vans were out earning money instead of sitting in workshops.
But the true potential lies in the intelligence of the vehicles themselves. Today, there are over 1.2 million connected Ford Pro vehicles across Europe generating six million health signals every day. By utilising this connected vehicle health, Ford Pro can now offer its new Uptime Services to keep businesses moving at every scale.
“Until now, these sophisticated services were primarily delivered by central Ford teams looking after our largest fleet partners. But the next stage of our strategy is the most exciting,” Hans adds.
“We are now empowering our dealers to take that same proactive superpower and use it to serve their local small business customers. With Dealer Uptime Services, we are bringing the full weight of Ford’s data expertise to the smaller enterprises.”
