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COMPANY car drivers who show support for road pricing could be offered rewards under government proposals.

HUNDREDS of fleet managers, finance managers, purchasing executives, HR managers and senior managers of major companies have already signed up for the year’s most important drive-and-decide event – Company Car in Action 2007.

FLEETS are being offered a new government-backed service which enables them to anonymously compare fleet safety procedures and crash data with other companies.

SOFTWARE provider cfc solutions has joined forces with Maintbook which provides service, maintenance and repair cost forecasting information.

AVERAGE prices in the UK.

NATIONAL Car Rental has signed a two-year pan-European deal with Daimler-Chrysler.

MERCEDES-BENZ is offering free spec upgrades on two of its model ranges.

LETTERS to Fleet News’ editor Martyn Moore.

RESULTS from sales around the UK.

The market for used commercial vehicles is ‘exceptionally bullish’ at the moment for all ages of vehicles, thanks in part to Polish plumbers.

HARDWORKING Martin Ward scours the globe for the week’s insider fleet intelligence.

Due to the large numbers sold into ‘high-discount’ fleets like Motability and the large money-off retail deals, Citroën’s original Picasso has always suffered from poor residuals.

Kia has had to ramp up production at its new €1 billion Zilina assembly line in Slovakia due to success of the Cee’d.

THE German Association of the Automotive Industry (VDA) has elected Matthias Wissmann (pictured right) as its new president.

International fleet management company Masterlease claims it has become the first vehicle leasing organisation to introduce a global residual value calculator.

VAUXHALL will produce its new Astra at its Merseyside Ellesmere Port factory.

Environmental pressures will irrevocably change the way British business operates and fleet managers are taking the lead in transforming working practices, a survey has found.

Employees heading away on foreign business trips will be able to use a new website that gives advice on driving abroad.

A LIST of key questions designed to help distinguish trustworthy brokers from those best avoided has been put together by finance provider Network.

Motability Operations, the company that manages the car scheme for disabled people, has rewarded its business partners at its annual Operations Supplier Awards.

NATIONAL Car Rental and Guy Salmon is applying a UK-wide smoking ban to its 45,000-strong vehicle fleet ahead of the legislation being introduced in England this summer.

LEASING and fleet management company ALD Automotive has launched in Algeria.

THE latest additions to Kwik-Fit’s van fleet are decorated with the company’s new livery.

THE BMW 7 Series caused a stir on its launch in 2001 with its ‘flame surfaced’ styling, but the new model promises to be less controversial.

RENAULT is considering a family of high-performance diesel models in the future, but it is waiting to gauge reaction to the new Megane Renaultsport dCi 175 before making a decision.

CASTROL has launched a service aiming to clear up confusion over which grade of oil to buy.

SUBARU used the New York Auto Show last week to take the wraps off two new models – an all-new Impreza and a facelifted Tribeca.

VOLKSWAGEN will head to the top of the space charts when its new Golf estate arrives in August.

A MECHANIC in Newcastle, Stuart Sloan of RH Patterson and Co, has completed the 50 millionth MoT test using the Vehicle and Operator Services Agency’s (VOSA) computer system.

A SLOWDOWN in payments by insurers has caused shares in Accident Exchange to plummet for the second time this year.