Speedy inspires talent with early careers rollout

Construction equipment hire and services provider Speedy is investing in more than 100 early careers trainees across the UK to help boost its skills base and the industry’s talent pipeline.

The initiative will more than double the number of trainees in the business, creating new opportunities in areas including engineering, hire desk, sales, marketing, commercial, and operations.

The programme will involve passing on skills from experienced colleagues to nurture and develop young people in their early career and harness the ideas, viewpoints of young people to help benefit the business.

Speedy is set to launch a new virtual work experience programme to inspire school students to take-up careers in construction and the hire sector, which will be delivered to 300 young people nationwide.

Speedy have also started working with Not Going To Uni and The Youth Group to showcase career opportunities and the hire industry to young people.

Dan Evans, chief operating officer at Speedy, said: “We recognise our responsibility to help the sector tackle the skills challenge and our early and late careers strategy underlines our commitment to creating opportunities for young people in the communities we work in across the UK.

“The programme is hugely valuable to us as a business. Working with Not Going to Uni and the Youth Group provides a great opportunity for us to showcase our exciting career opportunities to a more diverse range of people than ever before, but equally is a brilliant way of us expanding our teams.

"It will bring new skill sets and perspectives that can strengthen our business to help us build for the future.”

MiX Telematics partners with fleet insurance company

MiX Telematics has partnered with Humn, the commercial motor insurance company.

Through the partnership, MiX Telematics connected vehicle telematics will be integrated with Humn’s pay-as-you-drive insurance solution, to help optimise fleet activity visibility and insurance costs.

James Cowen, chief commercial officer at Humn, said: “At Humn we empower our customers to take control of their premiums.

“Partnering with MiX Telematics allows us to deliver more value to all our customers by adding additional protection and visibility for fleet managers, to ensure they have access to the most cost-efficient insurance policies available.”

Richard Adams, sales director at MiX Telematics Europe, said: “We are excited to be partnering with Humn.

“They are a very dynamic fleet insurance provider who are aligned with the MiX Telematics approach, and I am delighted that we are able to add even further value to our fleet management solutions through the integration with Humn’s innovative fleet-focused insurance product.”

KeyFleet wins new fleet client

KeyFleet has won a new fleet client, CMAC Group, provider of managed ground transport and accommodation solutions for businesses worldwide.

Steve Turner, founder of CMAC Group, said: “It was important that we partnered with not just vehicle provider but a company that shared our vision for a carbon neutral future and a provider that could help us plan that transition by selecting the right vehicles, talking to our drivers, creating a structured fleet policy, and even supplying charging solutions.

“We've also found the process from implementation through to individual driver management to be of huge benefit as it allows our team to focus on our own objectives whilst KeyFleet focus on the fleet.

“We now have a clear plan on how, over these next few years, we will transition our company fleet to EV's and also how we might be able to help our wider staff base access EV's through their salary sacrifice scheme."

Marc McLoughlin, managing director at KeyFleet, said: “We are only part way through the project at this stage with around half of the company fleet replaced but CMAC have been a joy to work with so far and we look forward to rolling out our SalEx programme within their 200+ staff base in the second half of this year.

“By 2025 the new fleet programme will have had a significant impact on the businesses journey to net zero and, I hope, have provided much support to the drivers and internal management team."

Snows launches online leasing platform

Snows has announced the launch of its new leasing platform, Snows Director, adding to its existing online purchasing and maintenance platforms.

The platform, created in partnership with Wessex Fleet Solutions, allows customers to search for a new car, agree the finance and servicing package and add GAP and Smart Protect insurance from a laptop, tablet or mobile in one online location.

Richard Betts, corporate director at Snows Group, said: “Many leasing customers, particularly those coming out of company car schemes, want the opportunity to compare manufacturers, lease with flexible terms and deposits and know they have safety and security of purchase. But they don’t want to physically visit a showroom to get it.

“Snows Direct offers all they want, plus the ease and smoothness of an online transaction, making it the perfect new addition to our digital family.”

Liberty Charge launches new website

Charge point operator, Liberty Charge, has launched a new website.

The company said the website informs and helps support local authorities on their electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure roll out and guide EV drivers through the charging process.

It also provides information on how Liberty Charge’s privately funded charge point operator model can help local authorities deliver publicly accessible charging.

Liberty Charge said the website also provides FAQs and case studies to demonstrate how its proposition works in practice for its local authority customers.

The website’s EV drivers section includes an interactive map highlighting drivers’ closest charge points, FAQs, and support on how to charge, as well as member plan details and registration.

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