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Mark Hankey, sales director at BCA, will be leaving in 2013 when he and his wife Sue emigrate to Australia.

Honda (UK) has confirmed pricing and specification for the new British built CR-V which will be arriving in dealerships in October.

Sixt has announced the opening of a new branch in Edinburgh, which is their second outlet to open in the city.

Investigation criticised by The Fuelcard Company for not covering any aspect of tax.

Andrew Yeoman will focus on remote telemetry technology with new busines.

The Daily Star has reported that Prime Minister David Cameron was ‘ready to put the brakes on raising the motorway speed limit to 80mph’ following comments from new Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin that ‘safety is paramount’.

The new facility will enable the growing business to create more jobs in the town.

Fleet Alliance has beaten the target for its inaugural charity ball by raising more than £25,000 for two cancer charities, Maggie’s Cancer Caring Centres and the Prince and Princess of Wales Hospice.

The Caddy Cross special edition make its premiere on the Volkswagen stand at the IAA Commercial Vehicles show in Hanover (20-27 September).

Franchised motor dealers in the UK are missing out on as much as £1.5bn worth of revenue annually by failing to sell service and parts for items identified by vehicle health checks, according to BTC.

Autoglass is celebrating its 40th birthday with the launch of a stop-motion video highlighting 40 years of automotive innovation, featuring its staff from across the UK.

GB Oils has completed the acquisition of Tincknell Lubricants from Tincknell Fuels Ltd.

Lexus will unveil the LF-CC for the first time at the Paris motor show, a new mid-size coupe concept that presents design and technology ideas that will influence the next IS saloon.

Toyota follows up the UK launch of Yaris Trend with an unveiling at the Paris motor show of the 2013 model that will go on sale next year.

Following Ferrari’s record breaking parade of Ferrari cars, all of the necessary evidence has now been submitted to be officially ratified as a Guinness World Record.

Should companies cut the number of manufacturers on their fleet choice list?

Roddy Graham, commercial director, Leasedrive, on misinformation about salary sacrifice schemes.

Paul Everitt, chief executive, SMMT, on what action the Government should take to reduce CO2.

The chief executive of the BVRLA, John Lewis, has announced that he will be stepping down from his post in the spring/summer of 2013.

David Greaves, business development manager, Schneider Electric, on why the move to EV adoption is gaining pace.

Robert Anderson, programme manager, Cenex, on why diesel is not the only fuel fleets should use.

Public sector organisations should look at well proven fleet solutions - such as shared pool car schemes – rather than simply cutting mileage rates, according to Alphabet.

Honda (UK) has announced two new appointments to its corporate sales team in the wake Ed Hummel’s departure to Glass’s as its new sales director.

A major cradle to grave review of the 12,000-strong NHS Scotland fleet – including the 1,450 vehicles operated by the Scottish Ambulance Service – is underway.

Tired driving has been blamed by police after a patrol car left the road outside a city centre pub and ploughed through a line of bollards.

The news that the Government intends to go ahead with plans to introduce a charging system whereby foreign operators pay to use UK roads gets the thumbs up from the Road Haulage Association (RHA).

Shell has opened the largest filling station in the UK (in terms of number of pumps and volume of available fuel) on the M25 near Cobham, Surrey.

Since Microlise launched its Incident Data Recorder they have received significant interest and orders from existing and new customers.

In order to better manage fleet usage and productivity, Interserve has decided to use Microlise’s Fleet Performance Tracking & Telematics package in their van fleet of over 1000 vehicles.

ATS Euromaster is championing wheel security with the release of a specialised training DVD designed to demonstrate the best practice in wheel security.