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WILTSHIRE Police Force has taken on a 3.5-litre V6 Kia Sorento as part of its traffic unit, using the vehicle in duties ranging from motorway accidents to VIP protection runs

AT Fleet News, we want to ensure we are providing precisely what you, our readers, need. That’s why in the centre pages of this issue you will find our 2004 Reader Survey.

INDEPENDENT vehicle leasing and fleet management company Velo is using a new technology system to set ‘realistic’ service, maintenance and repair budgets.

MPs will have their mileage allowances slashed from April next year despite more than 100 members voting to keep the current allowance.

CADILLAC will officially launch in the UK in January with fleet as its core target market

HONDA’S head of corporate sales, James Daulton, has left the company after three years in the role. Honda said his replacement would be announced ‘in the next few days’.

ORDER books have opened for the third diesel variant in the new Audi A6 range. It promises the lowest tax liability and running costs for six-cylinder diesels in the premium sector.

BRITANNIA Building Society has announced plans to replace its current fleet with Toyotas

Average fuel prices in the UK

BOOKING travel online is in the news again. In addition to the endless marketing hype, several independent surveys have pointed to big surges in web use for travel bookings.

LETTERS to Fleet News editor John Maslen

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

THE market for used LCVs is keeping pace with the record-breaking new van market, with demand for good-quality vans outstripping stock.

Two examples of cars in the auction halls

Used value experts give the lowdown on what’s selling and what’s sitting

Prices achieved at UK auction halls

Nissan Fleet recognises the vital role fleet managers play, and how pressured the job can be. Which is why they are committed to providing all the information, offers and support fleet managers need, whenever they need them.

THE GOVERNMENT has unveiled plans to introduce a draft Corporate Manslaughter Bill which could hold companies accountable for fatal accidents involving their drivers.

ENTRIES are flooding in for the Fleet News Awards 2005 – but those who have not yet got their submissions in are being urged to do so now, particularly fleet managers and fleet service companies.

Formal training in fleet management can pay for itself hundreds of times over, delegates at the Institute of Car Fleet Management heard during their annual conference, entitled ‘Going for Gold’ at the Motor Heritage Centre in Gaydon.

Congestion charging could be coming to a town near you as councils look at how to keep traffic flowing in busy areas. Local authorities are encouraged by the impact that the London congestion charge has had on traffic, but daily rental companies have a very different story to tell

IT can cost more to buy a pair of shoes than it does to rent a car for the day.

The latest appointments in the fleet industry

Mike Rowney, Fleet manager - East Kent Hospitals NHS Trust

Combining tradition and modernity

Launch dates for key fleet models

HI-tech location systems that pinpoint mobile phones when they are used to make emergency calls could save lives, a major European report has claimed.

TOYOTA is celebrating the manufacture of its 2.5 millionth vehicle in Europe.