Fleet Assist, which delivers to contract hire and leasing companies a national network of more 7,000 service outlets, is to hold an open day on April 30.

The event, which will bring together Fleet Assist’s contract hire and leasing company customers with the franchise and independent garages servicing, maintaining and repairing their company cars and vans, builds on the success of the organisation’s first open day two years ago.

Management level attendance at the Cambridgeshire-based company’s Open Day will come from companies including Agility Fleet, Alphabet, Days Contract Hire, Fleet Hire, Grosvenor Contracts Leasing, Hitachi Capital Vehicle Solutions, JCT600 Contracts, Lex Autolease, Marshall Leasing, TCH Leasing, Tusker, Venson Automotive Solutions, Windsor Vehicle Leasing and Zenith.

Currently almost 150 garage representatives are planning to attend the Open Day where they will:

• Participate in group question and answer sessions with leasing company representatives and discuss key trends and operational issues
• Be able to have one-to-one discussions with individual leasing companies
• Meet the Fleet Assist team and receive demonstrations of the company’s systems and processes during an office guided tour.

Citroen is also supporting the Open Day with a ride and drive giving delegates an opportunity to drive the manufacturer’s latest models around a special local route.

Also exhibiting will be a number of Fleet Assist partners including international oil and gas company Total, which will have its Lotus-branded F1 driving simulator on it stand, Autodata, automotive industry charity BEN, Bosch, the Institute of the Motor Industry, Rent to Repair, Thule and Vehicle Visuals.