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UK fleets have chosen the Vauxhall Astra as their 2005 Car of the Year.

HONDA is expecting hybrid sales to reach 1.2 million a year by 2008 with an expanded range of low emission vehicles.

DRIVERS who are refusing to sign a mandate for automated licence checking need tackling with a range of initiatives to get them to comply, fleet managers have been told.

SEAT has introduced new diesel engines to its Alhambra people carrier and Ibiza supermini ranges.

FLEET operators will have a chance to preview the new Fleet Driver Risk Index (FDRI) next month.

DAIMLERCHRYSLER Services Fleet Management has installed a new IT system promising speed and service quality benefits for its daily rental customers.

IS this the slowest accelerating car in Britain?

TCH Business Link, the contract hire and fleet management arm of the TC Harrison Group, has signed a tyre management deal with Kwik Fit Fleet.

AVERAGE fuel prices in the UK.

WHO would choose a job in the van fleet business these days? It seems to rate about as highly as that of a tax collector or a traffic warden.

NISSAN has announced contract hire rates for the 350Z sports car and the Murano SUV.

A RISE in deaths involving police vehicles is a sign of lowering standards of driver training, it is claimed.

FLEET NewsNet looks at how new cars taken on to a typical fleet might perform over the next three years/60,000 miles.

UPPER-medium cars – one of the core models in the fleet arena – continue to be the worst performing vehicles at auction, selling on average for less than 30% of their price new.

RESULTS from sales across the UK.

PEUGEOT’S revised 607 range has just gone on sale, with prices starting at £24,995.

THE new Renault Clio has been named Car of the Year 2006 by motoring journalists from 22 European countries.

THE collapse of MG Rover has cost the taxpayer more than £231 million.

FLEETS can now access a new website offering good practice information on occupational safety and health at work.

WOMEN driving on business are increasingly being caught for speeding.

DESPITE the Government’s push to increase the use of biofuels, companies producing the fuel are finding trading increasingly difficult, following the removal of a tax break by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC).

THE majority of UK boardrooms are failing to consider their company’s fleet operations when attempting to improve business performance, new research has found.

DRIVERS have been slammed for ‘acting like children’ over a company’s attempts to limit the brands of fuel they are allowed to buy for their company cars.

HAMPSHIRE Constabulary has become the first police force in the country to utilise an operator-controlled satellite navigation system.

The Fleet News Awards is the biggest night in the fleet industry. Each year, more than 1,300 people descend on the Le Meridien Grosvenor House Hotel, Park Lane, London, to see who wins the coveted titles, to see old friends, dance and celebrate.

Count us out of the market share game

WITH a growing number of public sector fleets focusing on their green credentials, Lexus is hoping its new performance hybrid SUV can find a place within police forces.

CAR manufacturers are climbing over themselves to offer the most economical and environmentally-friendly operations – and not just in terms of vehicle emissions.

AN international call for consistent Government support for clean fuels has been made by some of the leading figures in the global automotive industry.

The combination of a fleet car and a quantity of vegetable oil could help protect some of the world’s most endangered species, as Mike Roberts explains