All Company cars articles – Page 50
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News update - Rathbone opts to outsource
Rathbone Brothers has outsourced the management of its company car scheme to provider Inspire. The investment management firm, which mainly offers perk cars on prestige brands, will use the service to provide help with buying the vehicles, allowing employees to book services for their cars, breakdown recovery, daily rentals and ...
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Fitness First gets help with fleet
Fitness First has appointed Custom Fleet to supply, fund and manage its fleet in a bid to cut costs. The health club firm, which is switching its 250 cars from Toyota to Volkswagen and Audi models, is also outsourcing vehicle maintenance, accident management and driver records as part of the ...
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News update - Cost cutting drive
The BBC has announced it spends £33,000 a day on taxis for staff and guests. Over the last five years the corporation has spent £60 million on taxis, with a taxi bill of £11.4 million for the year to April 2004. All BBC staff who live within a 30 mile ...
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Feature - The new corporate manslaughter laws
If you read nothing else, read this ... Proposed corporate manslaughter laws will complement existing laws, not replace them. Under existing rules, you should apply the same risk assessment and risk reduction to work-related driving as you do to the rest of your business. It doesn't matter who ...
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Four-fold rise of post-ban drivers using phones at wheel
The number of drivers using mobile phones while driving has increased four-fold since 2003's ban. Some 37% of people still use mobiles on the road, over a year after the law against using a hand-held phone while driving was introduced. Previous RAC research in 2003 showed that just one in ...
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Diesel fleet reviews likely
Employers are expected to conduct widespread fleet reviews following changes to the way diesel cars are taxed.The Chancellor made the announcement in the Pre-Budget Report in December which will force organisations to see whether it is still tax efficient to offer diesel company cars.Currently, employees that drive a diesel car ...
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Stair lift firm signs fleet deal
Minivator has signed a three year contract hire deal with Lloyds TSB Autolease to ease the pressure faced by its human resources department. The company, which makes stairlifts suitable for disabled access, has agreed 29 company cars through the sole supply deal.
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Property firm uses cars as rewards
Townends has rewarded its top performing company car drivers with a number of silver Peugeot sports cars. The estate agency group has added the Coupe Cabriolets to its fleet of 240 company cars for its best sales negotiators and lettings staff. Mark Lawrence, fleet manager at Townends, explained that they ...
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Feature - Is free fuel the best option for your staff?
Heavy taxes mean free fuel is not always financially beneficial for employees, but calculating who to offer it to can be a tricky business, says Nicola SmithIf you read nothing else, read this ...Look at each employee's case on an individual basis - one size doesn't fit all.Hold regular reviews ...
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News update - 3i adds value to its fleet
Venture capital group 3i has introduced a contract purchase company car scheme after it changed fleet providers.Lewis Claxton, group purchasing manager at 3i, said that the company decided to contract purchase its 120 company car fleet, with the help of Zenith Vehicle Contracts, because it was the best way of ...
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Fleets self-insure in 22% of cases
Some 78% of employers source their company car insurance externally and over a quarter say insurance costs have risen in the last three years. For a copy of Car Benefits Solutions' Employee car benefit strategy research call 0161 447 8998
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News update - Tool firm gets driver risk plan
Plant and tool hire company A-Plant has introduced a driver risk assessment programme for its 1,900 company car drivers.Employees were electronically assessed using risk management provider Peak Performance's RoadRisk tool. This was done in a two-week period with around 100 drivers then being sent to a driver development course.Neil Hodson, ...
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News update - EMI signs leasing deal with Custom
EMI Music has signed a new fleet leasing deal with Custom Fleet that includes resignation protection for its company cars. Following a review of its 150 car fleet the record company has also reviewed its mileage contracts; upgrading from a four-year deal to a three-year deal with higher mileage levels ...
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News update - Co-op rolls out long service prizes
The Co-operative Group has rolled out a long service awards scheme to help boost staff retention. The consumer group, which previously rewarded employees when they left the organisation, began making retrospective awards to staff in June and will roll the scheme out to the rest of its 60,000 strong workforce ...
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News update - Charity picks contract hire
The Salvation Army is to choose its company cars through a contract hire scheme after it became too expensive to purchase the cars outright.It has also implemented a sale and lease back on over 50 of its existing cars.This has meant that the replacement cycle for all of its cars ...
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News update - Oil firm goes online with car plan
Total UK has changed its car leasing supplier after it conducted a review of its company car schemes. The oil company has introduced an online system that allows staff to get hold of vehicle information immediately. Julian Power, HR sourcing manager at Total UK, explained administration has become too much ...
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Feature - Finding a car for work and family
If you read nothing else, read this ... Cars that are popular as second hand private buys please company car providers because they hold their value better - super-minis are particularly in demand. Always work out the CO2 emissions to avoid a nasty tax bill. Diesel versions tend to ...
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News update - BT boosts road safety for fleet
Nearly 500 BT drivers took part in a road safety scheme to coincide with European Health and Safety Week.The telecoms firms introduced a parking and manoeuvring exercise, run by provider Peak Performance, after drivers incurred over £18m in repair costs following low speed parking accidents.Employees will also be able to ...
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News update - Law firm launches Aecop in City drive
Norton Rose has launched an all-employee car ownership plan (Aecop) in a bid to raise the stakes for law firm perks. It hopes to get a lead on City competitors by offering its 8,000 staff cut price cars.Mandy Campbell, pensions and benefits manager, said: "There was increasing coverage of other ...
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News update - GSK points the way
GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has refreshed its structured employee car ownership plan (Ecop) to ensure individual drivers are punished for dangerous driving rather than the whole fleet.Insurance for drivers is now based on an individual employee's driving record and not on the records of all drivers added together. This ensures good drivers ...