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PLANS are being drawn up to allow motorists to pay a toll to drive along a congestion-free motorway lane.

AVERAGE fuel prices in the UK.

THE Government is to be applauded for its recently announced Safe and Fuel Efficient Drivers (SaFED) scheme and the environmental and road safety benefits it is likely to bring to the van driving community and the rest of us road users.

LETTERS to Fleet News’ editor Martyn Moore.

FLEET NewsNet looks at how new cars taken on to a typical fleet might perform over the next three years/60,000 miles.

MARCH has seen buoyant auction halls in the commercial vehicle market, with all sectors doing well.

RESULTS from sales around the UK.

EUROPEAN fleets seeking better fuel economy for their drivers could form a big customer base for hybrid technology if manufacturers were to target the lower and upper-medium segments.

A MAJOR leasing company has signed up to help Cadillac put its new BLS saloon on the road across Europe next month.

OUR March 30 issue will include two special supplements.

A CORPORATE manslaughter law which could see companies prosecuted over fatal accidents involving fleet drivers has come a step closer to reality.

REPORTS that Chancellor Gordon Brown may introduce a new top rate of vehicle excise duty for high emissions cars have been cautiously welcomed by the Energy Saving Trust (EST).

THE number of company car drivers fined for parking illegally has surged by almost a third during the past year, according to ALD Automotive.

FLEET operators are being offered a free information pack on how to introduce a ‘safety culture’ within their organisation.

FORD has released first pictures of the new Ranger, which is due to go on sale this autumn.

BCA Belle Vue in Manchester has been awarded the inaugural Lex Cup, presented by leasing giant Lex Vehicle Leasing to the best performing auction centre.

CUSTOMERS of 4x4 hire company SHB Hire can choose SsangYong Rexton now 10 of the vehicles have been added to its fleet.

MOTOR retailer Nidd Vale has won the Seat GO! Dealer of the Year award.

ENVIRONMENTAL motoring forms the basis of a new website launched by LeasePlan.

READERS who run van fleets will receive Fleet Van free with this week’s Fleet News. Fleet Van is Britain’s most informative and lively magazine dedicated to the van fleet operator.

MORE than a million British motorists are just one offence away from being banned from driving, with more than 125,000 of them claiming they will lose their jobs as a result.

A CHARITY is using its new fleet of Mercedes-Benz Vito vans to transport young dogs undergoing training to provide valuable assistance to blind and partially-sighted people.

THE terms ‘corporate manslaughter’ and ‘duty of care’ and the like have been bandied around liberally over the past few years.

ON a bright winter morning in London, a group of yellow-jacketed men and women huddle round a cavalcade of liveried vehicles parked in a coned-off layby.

LABORIOUS classroom lectures and paper-based assignments may soon be a thing of the past when it comes to gaining qualifications.

WE’VE come a long way since cavemen first hacked out a wheel and a handful of Germans attached an engine to it. Phill Tromans takes a look at some major automotive innovations past, present and future.

GARTH Murphy, director of HSB Haughton Engineering, Oldham, has become the first winner of CompanyCarDriver’s on-going £500 Red Letter Days voucher competition.

LAUNCH dates for key fleet models.

THE latest appointments in the fleet industry.

A FLEET with 1,000 cars is hoping to achieve cost savings worth E3 million over three years after signing a pan-European leasing and fleet management deal.