‘Fleet’ Archives
New Advisory Fuel Rates published
HM Revenue and Customs has published new Advisory Fuel Rates, which employers use to reimburse employees for business travel in their company cars, or when they require employees to repay the cost of fuel used for private travel. They provide a range of rates based on engine size and fuel type and when used, are deemed to be tax-free. The [...]
Electric vehicles ‘will not solve’ UK’s emissions problems
Swapping ‘gas guzzling’ cars for zero emission electric vehicles will not solve the UK’s carbon emissions problems on its own, according to a new report from the Royal Academy of Engineering. Electric vehicles are only as ‘green’ as the electricity that charges their batteries, according to the report ‘Electric Vehicles: Charged [...]
New VED regime offers fleets the chance to save money
Despite increasing lease rental costs over a typical three-year term by almost £600 for those cars in the highest category for CO2 emissions (255+ g/km CO2), the new Vehicle Excise Duty rates, to be introduced in April, may actually present fleets with the chance to save thousands of pounds, according to experts at Lombard. By switching from [...]
Business fleets focus on fuel costs and emissions
Britain’s business car fleets made ‘impressive progress’ in reducing their carbon emissions last year, according to the latest figures from the British Vehicle Rental and Leasing Association. The BVRLA’s leasing members, who operate a combined fleet of around 1.6 million cars, saw the average carbon dioxide emissions of vehicles brought [...]
Fleets take part in electric Mini trial
Mini has launched the much-touted six-month trial of its electric vehicle option with 20 of the vehicles being tested by fleets. The South East England Development Agency (SEEDA), Southern and Scottish Energy, Oxford City Council and Oxfordshire County Council are trialling 20 of the Mini E cars in a fleet environment. Meanwhile, 40 Mini E [...]
Zurich insures more than 23 million vehicles
Today, Zurich insures more than 23 million vehicles in more than 40 countries and its risk management-led approach, to fleet underwriting is applied through its global Transportation Centre of Expertise, and via its proactive underwriters and risk engineers. Examples of the organisation’s approach to fleet underwriting and risk engineering [...]
Tesco.com
The online shopping arm of Britain’s biggest retailer, Tesco, is savings millions of pounds following the implementation of an industry-leading occupational road risk management programme. Tesco.com, which operates a fleet of 2,200 vehicles delivering goods to online customers across Britain, and employs 8,000 drivers, has introduced a raft [...]
Royal Mail Group
One of the world’s largest occupational road risk management programmes has been established by Royal Mail Group. While, road safety has always been a part of Royal Mail’s Group’s duty of care policy it has been given a massive new focus over the last 18 months with more than 50,000 of the organisation’s 90,000 drivers completing risk [...]
THREE ORGANISATIONS WIN PRESTIGIOUS PRINCE MICHAEL AWARDS FOR IMPROVING FLEET SAFETY
Two of Britain’s best-known businesses have won prestigious Prince Michael International Road Safety Awards for fleet vehicle initiatives they have taken to cut road crashes. Royal Mail Group and Tesco.com each won a Fleet Operator Award, sponsored by the Institute of Advanced Motorists (IAM) Fleet. Meanwhile, leading insurer Zurich for [...]
HMRC introduces new advisory fuel rates
New advisory fuel rates (AFRs) will be introduced by HM Revenue and Customs on Tuesday (December 1). The mileage rates apply where employers: Reimburse employees for business travel in their company cars, or Require employees to repay the cost of fuel used for private travel. Employers are not obliged to reimburse their [...]