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DAIMLERCHRYSLER Services Fleet Management is offering its customers the euroShell Fleet Card.

FLEETS could be saved hours of time consuming work if plans to introduce three-year tax discs are brought in by the Department for Transport.

LONG driver hours and resultant fatigue is the number one concern of fleets, according to the results of a new survey.

VOLKSWAGEN has introduced a new top-of-the-range Passat model, powered by a 3.2-litre V6 engine producing 247bhp.

COMPANY car driver complacency is costing business and the fleet industry a fortune in fines and administration.

LETTERS to Fleet News’ acting editor Steve Moody.

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

AN increasingly selective approach from buyers is hitting the market for used small and car-derived vans.

RESULTS from sales across the UK.

The UK’s largest dealer group, Pendragon plc, has made an approach to buy its third placed rival Reg Vardy plc.

IS your day one headlong, dizzying rush - wish you could take time out and focus on what’s really important?

AMBULANCE fleets nationwide are facing a shake-up as issues of privatisation and fleet amalgamation are debated.

The Fleet News Europe Conference 2006

A NEW study claims a large number of fleets do not carry out the most basic check on employees using their own cars for business use.

FIAT and Ford have signed an agreement to jointly develop a new generation of city car.

VOLVO’S sleek C70 coupe-convertible will cost from £26,200 when it goes on sale next spring.

RENAULT has announced prices for the five-door version of its Clio supermini.

RICHMOND Motors Group has celebrated 40 years in business.

THE importance of formal training in the fleet industry was one of the key messages to emerge at the Institute of Car Fleet Management’s annual conference in Coventry.

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.

AS a dozen fleet managers watch a snarling 626bhp Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren snaking its way around Silverstone, laying two thick curling strips of black rubber on the race track, you would have thought the fleet industry was a long way from everybody’s minds.

MARY Williams is a personable, likeable and easy-going former fleet journalist who, in the last 11 years, has become a figurehead for those trying to reduce deaths on Britain’s roads.

IT is all well and good ordering a fleet of LPG vehicles – perhaps following a prick of conscience and a desire to run an environmentally-friendly fleet. But what happens when those vehicles’ fleet life comes to an end?

THE internet seems to have been tailor-made for the auction industry, no matter what customers are buying.

ASK any self-respecting punter on the floor of an auction hall what innovations they would like to see brought into the arena, and the answers might include fresher bread for the bacon sarnies, underfloor heating and some decent coffee.

LAUNCH dates for key fleet models.

IT’S very difficult to find information on a new car without coming across some manufacturer PR twaddle somewhere along the line. Whether it’s a ‘beautifully exotic engine’ or a ‘design that instigates feelings of passion’, it will always be part of the new car package.

CAR manufacturers are pushing residual values down by forcing too many basic specification nearly-new vehicles on to the market.