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Chauffeur company Tristar, which operates a fleet of 650 luxury executive cars, is using Tusker to assess its drivers.

New regulations have come before Parliament that will allow Highways Agency traffic officers to authorise the removal of broken down and abandoned vehicles from motorways and major A roads.

There has been a 9% fall in the average price of vans for sale on the Vansunited.co.uk website over the last three months.

Road Safety Week will run this year from November 10 to 16.

Hitachi Capital Vehicle Solutions is holding a car check day during which managers will undertake safety checks on employees’ company and privately-owned cars.

Accident management firm Call Zebra has appointed Gemini Vehicle Solutions as its national car hire partner.

Total Accident Management will provide accident management services to TCH Leasing.

Somers Refrigeration, which converts Citroën LCVs, has just produced its 4,000th temperature-controlled van.

Renault and Toyota will reveal new versions of their core fleet models at next month’s Paris Motor Show.

Volvo is set to launch a new eco brand which will offer sub-120g/km of CO2 versions of the C30, S40 and V50

CAP manufacturer relationships manager Martin Ward scours the globe for the week's insider fleet intelligence

The latest blue light vehicles were on show at the National Association of Police Fleet Managers' exhibition

Thinking of doing business across Europe? Then you need to do your homework.

State of the industry: Senior figures in the fleet industry tell Sarah Tooze about the issues they are facing

Three and a half million people are bullied at work, according to a new study.

Fleet CV: Daniel McKeown, fleet manager, MJ Quinn Integrated Services.

Settling in: Jeff Mohammed, business development manager, Reflex Vehicle Solutions.

Europcar has named Lorraine Farnon as UK sales director, responsible for Europcar’s four regional sales teams.

Stephen Odell has been appointed chief executive officer of the Volvo Car Corporation.

Phil Robson has been appointed Peugeot UK’s director of fleet and used vehicle operations.

Public sector fleets throughout the country could combine their buying power to bulk buy millions of pounds worth of fuel on the futures markets in a bid to combat rocketing costs.

Trials of the first plug-in hybrid car introduced by a mainstream carmaker have begun.

Learner drivers are now receiving additional tuition on how to drive in a way that saves money, saves fuel and cuts emissions as part of their practical driving test.

Used cars are currently losing value at a faster rate today than they did during the height of the last recession in the early 1990s.

Driver training school, AcciDon’t, has been awarded a £3.6million contract to teach Royal Marines, soldiers and airmen how to drive.

Two separate surveys involving company drivers have named the country’s worst roads.

Five key markets where car and commercial vehicle demand is likely to stay relatively steady during the credit crunch have been named.

The GCDA – the Government Car and Despatch Agency - has been named as a pre-approved courier provider by OGCbuying.solutions, an executive agency of the Treasury's Office of Government Commerce.

Letters to Fleet News' editor Martyn Moore.

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