Fleet strategy - Page 22

Despite what fleet managers may think, size is not important. The benefits of improving the safety of a company’s drivers are the same if a fleet is five or 5,000 vehicles.

The leadership teams of both AA DriveTech and a2om International have announced a formal partnership focused on delivering online risk assessment and e-learning technology to the corporate fleet management world.

Return on investment will be 4-5 times a fleet operators salary, says Craig Watson

Yorkshire Water has extended its vehicle tracking solution that uses DigiCore’s C-track technology to include a further 130 vans.

CLM is urging fleets to set CO2 emissions caps at 140g/km, rather than 160g/km, in anticipation of future changes to the Capital Allowance threshold.

Zipcar has acquired the car sharing service, Streetcar bringing together these two companies to create a single, global brand.

With replacements for seized engines costing between £3,000 and £8,500, fleet management company Masterlease is urging Britain’s three million company car drivers to check their oil more regularly.

LeasePlan is predicting growth in the market for salary sacrifice schemes after announcing the launch of its own product.

Calls are mounting for a ban on the use of hands-free phones while driving after new research revealed their use was detrimental to the performance of 97.5% of drivers.

Find out if you need to start watching your speeding by answering some quick questions.

Venson Automotive Solutions has unveiled Venson Advantage, its new company car salary sacrifice scheme with built-in risk elimination for employers.

Cambridge based company, International Fleet Services (IFS), has appointed Mycompanyfleet to provide the fleet management systems it needs to help administer client fleets.

Detailed analysis was key to Helen Sleigh's understanding of how she could cut fleet costs

FleetDirectory.co.uk polled fleets to assess which habit they viewed to be the worst among a list of five common driver problems.

Despite a £5,000 subsidy, doubts persist over vehicle range, battery life and residual values

The first of 170 light commercial vehicles are to be delivered this month by ALD Automotive to Evander Glazing & Locks following the signing of a major new fleet outsourcing contract between the two companies.

The consequences and implications of road crashes, salary sacrifice schemes and parking regulations will be under the spotlight at ACFO’s annual Conference and AGM - the major event of the year for the UK’s leading fleet decision-maker’s organisation.

An Australian friend, Richard Schuster forwarded me the following story from the Automotive Fleet publication, February 16, 2010 – having been ‘blown away’ by the $7.5M in settlements by the fleet’s insurer

The updated version of the 1link Service Network e-commerce platform in three years has been rolled out to fleets and garages.

Trimble MRM has been appointed by Cenex to provide the telematics and diagnostic technology for the government’s Low Carbon Vehicle Procurement Programme (LCVPP)

Subsea 7 has signed a contract with Tusker, to provide a salary sacrifice car option as part of its flexible benefits package to around 1,800 employees throughout the UK.

Experts at Brake's Fleet Safety Forum pass on their top tips for improving road safety

The Fuelcard Company is launching an innovative partnership which allows drivers to use their Keyfuels fuel cards as means of payment on the M6 Toll.

Commercial insurance broker KGJ Group is offering a discount of 10 percent on its customers’ insurance premiums if they have RedWeb trackers installed on their commercial, fleet or private vehicles.

GreenRoad launches GreenRoad 360.

Chevin Fleet Solutions is to launch an addition to its FleetWave fleet management system, designed to simplify and reduce the administrative burden of driver licence management.

Fleet News/Lex Autolease driver knowledge survey reveals their hard work is paying off

The true cost of a health and safety prosecution.

So what do you want to know about your so called ‘grey fleet’? Perhaps there is another question you may want to ask first, “How much do I need to know?”

The Health and Safety (Offences) Act 2008, which came hot on the heels of the Corporate Manslaughter and Homicide Act 2007, acted as a stark reminder for many companies to focus once again on Health and Safety. It is important to remember that work-related road incidents account for more than 1,000 fatalities each year making it the single largest cause of occupational fatalities in the UK.