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New government proposals will slash the time that fleets have to report accident details by more than two months.

Midlands office supplier Sovereign Office Equipment now has an entire fleet of Citroën vans after placing a recent order for Relay and Berlingo vans.

In what is claimed as an auction first, £1.8m of stock came under the hammer on a plane between the UK and Spain.

Only 47% of UK motorists can correctly identify both UK and foreign road signs, according to a survey by Avis Rent A Car.

Essex Police paid out more than £40,000 over the past five years repairing damage after diesel-fuelled vehicles were filled with petrol.

An overhaul of the blue badge disabled driver scheme has been announced, potentially costing up to £55 million.

Ogilvie Fleet has announced a partnership with Sheffield Wednesday FC – nicknamed the Owls – for the next three years.

The Fleet Safety Forum’s national conference at Birmingham’s National Motorcycle Museum in February will showcase policies and procedures to tackle work-related road crashes.

Andy Pritchard, a business development specialist, has won BT’s 2008 Safe Driver of the Year competition.

Skoda will launch an eco-friendly GreenLine version of its revised Octavia model next year which will emit 119g/km of CO2, qualifying it for the lowest diesel benefit-in-kind tax band.

Kia is adding to its fleet services offering as it looks to grow sales.

Martin Ward, CAP manufacturer relationship manager, scours the globe for the week’s insider fleet intelligence.

The shape of a European Commission rescue package for the European automobile industry now being drafted will come by way of a 40 billion Euro soft loan pushed through the European Investment Bank (EIB).

Alfa Romeo has appointed two new business partners to help it raise the standard of its dealer used vehicle remarketing programme., jtk, automotive

Ford’s new Ka city car will be priced from £7,995 when deliveries begin in January.

Latest technology encourages safer driving and can help improve fuel economy by 10mpg

Hitachi Capital Vehicle Solutions chief executive Simon Oliphant is aiming to give his company a higher profile

British businesses are missing out on top talent because they are employing out-of-date recruitment methods.

Fleet CV: Brendan Moran, head of corporate sales, Hitachi Capital Vehicle Solutions

Craig Moran, sales manager, Epyx

David Alexander, operations director at Europcar, has been appointed chairman of the British Vehicle Rental and Leasing Association’s rental committee.

Risk management firm Automotional has named Andy Neale as operations director.

Jaama has appointed Elizabeth Pinson as senior project manager.

Letters to Fleet News’ editor Martyn Moore.

A series of concessions were made to plans for a Greater Manchester congestion charge prior to council chiefs voting on proposals.

Motorpoint is rolling out a new type of contract hire product for small to medium-sized businesses. It will be using its own stock for the deals.

A trio of multi-million pound contracts covering a combined fleet in excess of 250,000 vehicles has re-asserted ATS Euromaster in the UK fleet sector.

A new division of NorthgateArinso has been created specialising in automotive software applications.

Following months of record fuel prices, the cost of petrol and diesel at the pumps has been falling significantly over the past four weeks.

Women may already wear the trousers in the home but new research by vansunited.co.uk has highlighted that the trend has spread to businesses.