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Fleets are divided as to whether they will consider introducing a salary sacrifice scheme following news that four major leasing providers have entered the market.

A fleet manager’s experience with tyres on a car one of his drivers planned to use for a trip to Austria have prompted a call for fleets to be given access to a special industry information service on European legislation.

Kwik-Fit Fleet has launched a a new web-enabled Service24 initiative that it says will improve both fleet driver communication and its data information service to contract hire and leasing companies.

New sentencing guidelines have set out the precise financial risk for fleets that have not done everything possible to minimise road risk.

Used car sales will recover at a faster rate than new car registrations over the next five years, according to predictions from Manheim.

The car hire shortage is likely to continue with fleets advised to ensure their supplier has a strategy to prioritise corporate clients during peak demand periods.

Eligible staff at Delaware North Companies (DNC) are using vehicles supplied by GKL Leasing under an employee car ownership scheme (ECO) after the company moved away from a standard contract hire scheme.

Developing and implementing a pioneering safety-focused online vehicle recall system has won Northgate Vehicle Hire’s Claire Piggott a top award from the British Vehicle Rental and Leasing Association (BVRLA).

Following on from the Memorandum of Understanding on electric vehicles signed last year, Europcar has pre-ordered 500 Renault electric vehicles for delivery from autumn 2011.

BT Fleet has been awarded a five-year contract to provide fleet management and maintenance services to the AA’s light and heavy commercial vehicles across its fleet of 2,500 breakdown assistance and recovery vehicles.

Enterprise Rent-A-Car has launched a long-term vehicle rental product aimed at corporate customers.

Registrations of new commercial vehicles – vans and trucks -were 10,348 in February taking the rolling year total to just 220,521, which is down 32.2% on the same period last year.

Kevin McNally's speech at the 2010 BVRLA dinner

Lex Autolease has won a £35 million, 3-year sole supply deal with Dairy Crest.

Vauxhall Fleet has awarded a five-year replacement glass contract to National Mobile Windscreens.

TomTom Work, the division of TomTom dedicated to commercial vehicle fleets, has announced the launch of two devices to help businesses with their time management and logging obligations.

To meet strong demand for the Mazda6 from both retail and fleet customers, Mazda Motors UK is bringing forward the 'on sale' date for the upgraded Mazda6 models for 2010.

British buyers will be able to see, drive and own a Dacia from the end of 2012, following confirmation at the Geneva Motor Show that the brand will launch in the UK.

NAVTEQ has developed Fiat Group Automobiles’ first map update web portal.

Toyota GB is not anticipating any downturn in fleet sales as a result of its global recall, despite a Fleet News poll which revealed that 17.5% of respondents have or are considering removing the its cars from their options lists.

Sandicliffe Motor Contracts, the Long Eaton-based contract hire and leasing specialist, has won an order to supply 35 vehicles to midlands-based Inspired Gaming Group.

Ford has created a new environmental initiative to develop technologies that will bring down CO2 emissions and fuel consumption on all its vehicles.

Vital missing residual value and whole-life data for new electric cars should be on the horizon after CAP agreed to work with a manufacturer group to speed up the flow of information.

The new car market rose for an eighth successive month in February, with the market up 26.4% compared with the same month last year.

The Transport Select Committee has been critical of the number of changes of ministers for transport, with five in the past five years. It also criticises its over-optimistic performance reporting of the Department's achievements.

Insurance provider Direct Line and road safety charity Brake have produced the second in their series of reports on safe driving. The second report – Fit to Drive? – covers topics such as drink and drug driving, driver fatigue and Government policies on road safety. The first report, which was published last year

Ford and Peugeot confirm post-scrappage fleet focus.

Six months after revealing the LF-Ch concept, Lexus has unveiled its new CT 200h model at the Geneva Motor Show.

The all-new Mazda5 has been designed and developed to be especially good at meeting the needs of European families with active lifestyles.

Ford's all-new C-car has made its European debut at the Geneva Motor Show, alongside final versions of C-MAX and Grand C-MAX which go on sale this year.