Rael Winetroube, sales director of DaimlerChrysler Services Fleet Management, said the role of the fleet manager should increase, not shrink, to cover greater financial and management responsibility.
He said: 'The fleet manager who is really switched-on to the new conditions in the marketplace is going to be invaluable. His or her expert knowledge on a wide range of subjects will be needed to put forward intelligently structured schemes to steer a company through the changes to benefit in kind tax.
'The fleet manager will also have to take charge of company responsibilities for driver safety if proposals by the Work-related Road Safety Task Group to have all at-work drivers covered by health and safety legislation are given the go-ahead.
'Traditionally, the fleet manager has provided a link between the finance, facilities and human resource operations within the company. To remove that management element at a time of increasing complexity is to leave a dangerous gap in the chain of responsibility.'
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