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THE Hit For Six Conference 2004 will attract more than 150 fleet decision-makers when it is staged next week – but there are still a few days left to get your tickets.

FLEETS have been assured it is ‘business as usual’ from Jaguar despite the major restructuring of the business, including shifting production from one factory to another.

EX-TRANSPORT Minister Steven Norris is forecasting a dramatic shift away from fuel taxation as a method of raising revenue as Britain moves towards a hydrogen-based economy.

CITROEN will spend the winter targeting fleets with its revitalised medium car range, following the unveiling of the new C4 lower-medium hatch and revised C5 at Paris this week.

DAEWOO will cease to exist as a new car brand in Europe from January 1 as General Motors completes the global launch of the Chevrolet brand.

FLEET customers of Fiat Auto Contracts will have accident management services provided by Total Accident Management.

A CENTRALLY-managed fleet that needs to allow up to 30 employees based at 11 sites to access fleet information has invested in new technology to help it cope.

PEAK Performance has a driver handbook available in a web-based electronic format with free updates provided via the internet.

THE UK managing director of car rental giant Avis has announced he is leaving the company at the end of the year.

COMPANY cars are making a comeback as drivers increasingly turn down the offer of opting out and taking cash, new research has revealed.

BMW has revealed a raft of changes to its model line-up for 2005, affecting most cars built from this month.

DENBIGHSHIRE County Council has become the first of its kind in Wales to be awarded a grant from the Energy Saving Trust to make its fleet cleaner.

VAUXHALL will unveil a high-performance Astra concept in Paris today that points the way to a new VXR model.

VEHICLE transportation company Richard Lawson Autologistics has gone into administration.

REFRIGERATED vehicle supplier Petit Forestier has ordered a new fleet of delivery vans with hopes of creating a new sector in the temperature-controlled market.

HYUNDAI has launched a special-edition Matrix.

REFRIGERATED vehicle supplier Petit Forestier has ordered a new fleet of delivery vans with hopes of creating a new sector in the temperature-controlled market.

Average fuel prices in the UK.

Executive diesels

BCA dismisses fears of diesel downfall

A TOP performer from the auction halls

If your car is leased or outright purchased, knowing its value is vital, particularly if you want to offer staff the chance to buy the vehicle at the end of the contract

USED value experts give the lowdown on what’s selling and what’s sitting

THE recent horrific events at a school in Russia have reminded us all that acts of violence perpetrated by those advocating rights for others can not only hit randomly but hit those that have in no way been party to the ‘crime’. Nowhere is the spectre of this more marked than in travel.

Letters to the editor

Letters to the editor

THERE are just a handful of places remaining for the Fleet News Hit for Six conference next week.

A HIGH-profile campaign to clear the fog of confusion surrounding the law on mobile phone use while driving is desperately needed to help the industry, fleets claim.

THE 1,000th Rolls-Royce Phantom has been built to customer order at the company’s new manufacturing plant in Goodwood.

COMPANIES employing overseas staff have been urged to check their licences amid concern that many foreign nationals could be driving illegally in the UK.