deal
ING Car Lease has won a deal to provide the Forestry Commission
with car leasing services, to a maximum value of £293,000 per
year.
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The three-year contract hire deal was awarded on a
lowest-price basis, and the lessor beat five other bidders to win
the deal.
A spokesperson for ING Car Lease declined to give further
details.
GE FLEET
Lessor continues its broker drive
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By GlobalDataGE Capital Solutions Fleet Services (GE Fleet) reports that it
has completed the integration of Custom Fleet which it acquired
from National Australia Bank in May 2006.
The integration, according to Gary Killeen, GE Fleet’s commercial
leader fleet solutions, has gone smoothly with broker business
rising by 7 per cent post-acquisition. “It now accounts for some 8
per cent of GE Fleet’s funded business,” Killeen said.
He added: “The broker side is very important to us. We didn’t have
a presence there until our purchase of Custom Fleet. We now have
100 brokers on our books and a growing penetration in the
market.
Killeen stressed that brokers now have access to an online car
quotation and ordering system as well as an online credit
referencing facility. “We expect much further growth from this side
of the business in future,” he said.
DAIMLER FLEET MANAGEMENT
Housing group deal win
Daimler Fleet Management (DFM) has won a deal to supply the
65-vehicle fleet of English Churches Housing Group (ECHG). ECHG,
which has recently merged with The Riverside Group (Riverside), a
housing and re-generation group based in Liverpool, owns or manages
some 50,000 homes throughout England.
DFM is already the sole fleet management supplier for
Riverside. Although ECHG’s vehicles are currently fleet managed by
DFM it is increasingly looking to convert to contract hire with a
maintenance agreement. Riverside’s existing 95-vehicle fleet,
including all subsidiaries, is also mainly funded through contract
hire.
LLOYDS TSB AUTOLEASE
Web route to a greener fleet
Lessor Lloyds TSB autolease (LTSBa) has launched a website that
aims to set out to fleets exactly how they can run a safer and
cheaper fleet and help the environment at the same time through
implementing examples of green best practice.
The website, www.lloydstsbautolease.co.uk/bestpractice,
is free to access and was developed by the fleet management and
leasing company after research conducted in conjunction with its
client base.
It contains news and updates as well as guides and tips on
running a greener fleet, and was supported by environmental
consultant Don Potts.
Head of fleet management at LTSBa, Marcus Puddy said: “The
environmental best practice guide is designed to assist anyone
involved in fleet management, to help them on their journey to a
greener fleet.”
ALPHABET
Short-sighted headache for fleets
Fleet provider Alphabet has conducted a study into what it terms
“can’t see, won’t see” drivers – namely those who need to wear
glasses to drive safely yet take to the roads specs-less, even
though by doing so they run the risk of prison time if an inability
to see is found to be a contributory factor in a serious
crash.
Of 1,000 drivers surveyed by Alphabet, more than half
admitted they need glasses or contacts to see properly. But this
did not stop one in twenty of this group from regularly driving
without their eye-wear, with men (7 per cent) more likely to be the
culprits than women (4 per cent).
The group most averse to wearing glasses at the wheel were
male company car drivers, of whom one in 12 claimed regularly to
drive without glasses.
Alphabet commercial director, Richard Schooling said:
“Business drivers are among the worst offenders. Firms need to make
it clear to all working drivers that they will not tolerate ‘can’t
see, won’t see’ behaviour at the wheel.”
EPYX/1LINK
E-commerce deal with Motability
Motability Operations has signed up to a seven-year deal with
software provider epyx, meaning the 465,000 cars in the Motability
fleet will use epyx’s 1link Service Network to process all
authorisations for car maintenance work.
1link said: “The system allows a team of Motability
maintenance engineers to process an impressive 420,000 transactions
every year across 3,500 accredited service providers.”
Steve Thurman, general manager of fleet technical services at
Motability Operations said: “We are very pleased to sign this new
contract. 1link Service Network provides us with the means to see
exactly what is happening to the maintenance of our fleet,
controlling costs, raising service levels and resolving any issues
rapidly.”
Ken Trinder, head of business development at epyx said: “This
is the largest arrangement of its type in the fleet industry, we
believe, and provides the Motability fleet and its customers with a
wide range of benefits.”
11,000 fleet providers with a combined parc of over 2m
vehicles have signed up to the 1link platform since its launch in
2003.
