A 20% year-on-year increase in the number of fleet maintenance e-commerce transactions has been seen during 2009, says epyx.

It has tracked the increase through its 1link Service Network fleet maintenance e-commerce platform.

Ken Trinder, head of business development at epyx, said that the reasons behind the increase were largely linked to the way that fleets had responded to the recession.

He explained: “If a company is hanging onto a vehicle into the fourth or even fifth year of its life then inevitably there are implications in terms of wear parts and even major component failure compared to a newer car or van. Each of these generates a new transaction.”

Trinder said that epyx expected volumes of maintenance transactions through 1link Service Network to remain high into 2010 and probably beyond.