Posted: Monday 18 April 2016
On account of the growing uncertainty surrounding salary sacrifice, there has been a spike in interest among employers looking to set-up affinity car schemes according to providers like Alphabet.
Posted: Monday 11 April 2016
Seeing as the Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne failed to reveal Benefit-in-Kind rates for 2020/21 in his latest budget, fleets are facing the prospect of ordering company cars 'blind' without knowing how much tax they will need to pay.
Posted: Friday 08 April 2016
Despite the fact George Osborne froze fuel duty for the sixth year in a row with his recent Budget, the Freight Transport Association (FTA) wrote to the Chancellor before this announcement to ask for a reduction, as it would make an important contribution towards protecting the UK economy.
Posted: Friday 01 April 2016
According to the Institute of Advanced Motorists (IAM), five motorists have been caught driving at over 100mph on 30mph and 40mph roads in England. A further two were caught travelling at more than 70mph in areas with the same speed limit, which tend to be residential.
Posted: Friday 25 March 2016
In 2013, the DVLA introduced a new design to the photocard driving licence in order to comply with EU rules. Even though these changes aimed to clarify category entitlements as well as valid to and from dates, they actually caused a great deal of confusion instead.
Posted: Friday 18 March 2016
You've no doubt heard of driverless cars, but what about driverless lorries? Well, the Department for Transport (DfT) has unveiled plans to test driverless 'HGV platoons,' which would enable vehicles to move in a group and as a result, use less fuel.
Posted: Friday 11 March 2016
In years gone by, fleet operators would need to collect, manually check, and store paper copies of their employee's driving licences. This required a great deal of effort and resources from an administrative point of view and wasn't exactly very efficient either.
Posted: Thursday 11 February 2016
If one of your fleet vehicles is involved in an accident, not only must you pay for the necessary repairs, higher insurance premiums and possible third-party compensation, you will also need to recoup the costs of any downtime.
Posted: Wednesday 10 February 2016
Despite the fact most organisations, including those with vocational fleets, currently carry out driver licence checks on an annual or bi-annual basis, the Association for Driving Licence Verification (ADLV) is calling for fleet managers to perform this duty more regularly.
Posted: Wednesday 03 February 2016
As of 1st February 2015, new sentencing guidelines came into force for employers convicted under Corporate Manslaughter as well as Health and Safety legislation. Regardless of when the offence actually took place, tougher fines will be handed out to any case heard on or after this date.