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FUEL and car policies need to be worked out separately, said Alison Chapman, lead tax partner of the Deloitte automotive sector group.

DRIVERS must be urged to improve standards because they do not respond to threats, delegates at the conference were told.

DEATHS on the road should be investigated as thoroughly as suspected murders, said Kevin Clinton, road safety adviser to the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA).

CONFERENCE delegates were told that drivers are potentially the single most dangerous component in a company.

FLEET drivers are being urged to follow a 60-second checklist that could help discourage thieves from targeting their company cars.

COMMERCIAL vehicle rental firm TLS has moved to a new head office in Sale, Cheshire.

A FLEET manager who forced all her drivers to have eye tests found that 20% of them had defective vision.

HALF of drivers polled in a recent survey would take action if their motoring costs, such as fuel, increased by £50 a month.

A MAJOR rebranding exercise is being undertaken at the head offices of GE Commercial Finance Fleet Services. It has opened a ‘swapshop’ where employees can swap old branded items for new.

BUSINESS partners and brothers Zaheer Ali and Zahid Ali have acquired a new Dollar Thrifty Rental franchise, based in Enfield.

CAR production figures for September are the best for the month for five years. Output grew to 155,321 units, the highest since 1999 when the annual total reached 1.8 million units.

PRODUCTS designed to improve the efficiency of your fleet.

MINOR changes to the way fleets are run can help streamline costs – but it is by looking at the bigger picture that fleets can make significant savings.

THE Metropolitan Police fleet operates in one of the most high-pressure environments in the country and has to cope with everything from the threat of terrorism to the rigours of everyday policing.

LARGE SUVs are beginning to muscle in on the traditional heartland of saloon-based executive diesels. Our panel of leasing experts show how the rival camps are shaping up against each other.

Honda’s site promises fireworks

LAUNCH dates for key fleet models.

THE latest appointments in the industry.

FLEET News has rewarded 20 fleet decision-makers for taking part in the first online version of the Fleet Panel.

A HOST of expert speakers on the European fleet industry will give their view on the future of the market during a major conference next year.

THE European Commission has formally threatened Greece with a European Court of Justice (ECJ) case over its requirement that companies providing local third-party motor insurance must belong to the Greek National Association of Insurance Companies.

A COURT has cleared a French couple of any criminal charges after one of their dinner guests got into his car while drunk and caused an accident which killed a family of five and himself.

IN-SHOWROOM and online used vehicle marketing specialist Portfolio Europe has opened a new office in Hamburg, Germany.

AUTHORITIES in Rome are reportedly planning to penalise 4x4 owners for using the city centre.<

LATEST analysis into new car sales has found that the growth of mini-MPVs is slowing. September's figures studied by business information specialist JATO show registrations in western Europe's new car market were down by 2.2% compared with the same month the previous year.

WE are obsessed by price. After all, how clever we are seen to be at work is usually judged only by what cost we’ve taken out of the business.

Letters to Fleet News’ editor John Maslen.

MG Rover has posted an annual pretax loss of £77 million as vehicle sales continue to decline amid tough competition.

A HUGE tender process launched by Britain’s largest fleet, telecommunications giant BT, has landed Vauxhall with the biggest light commercial fleet deal in its history.

A MAJOR car crime study has blamed driver complacency for an increasing number of attacks on company vehicles.