As a Stock Exchange-listed company, Carillion’s fleet policy has to sit hand in glove with the needs of its shareholders.
Two factors drive the strategy: cost and health and safety.
Running costs need to be kept to a minimum – the focus is on replacement cycles, fuel bills and rental costs – while a Target Zero programme aims to wipe out reportable incidents by next year.
Both would be challenging enough for most fleets. For Gil Kelly, fleet management director of the £90 million turnover fleet division, the challenge has been multiplied by a fleet that has almost doubled in size over the past three years through acquisitions and organic growth.
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