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GE CAPITAL Fleet Services has regrouped a trio of its latest acquisitions under the TLS brand.

PROTON has reinforced its green credentials by supplying a further 35 liquefied petroleum gas-powered Compact and Persona police cars to Humberside Constabulary.

BRITAIN'S safest lower medium sector cars will be revealed in May when the third set of results under the Euro-NCAP crash testing programme are announced.

PEUGEOT'S recently launched 306 estate has found its first police customer with an order for 20 vehicles from Strathclyde.

CARS fitted with side-marker lights are seen much earlier and more clearly by other drivers than cars without such lights, according to research into driver reaction times by the Dutch Human Factors Research Institute.

LAND ROVER is to launch a police version of the Freelander 4x4.

THE Driving Standards Agency has confirmed that the Approved Driving Instructor qualification applies equally to fleet driver trainers and learner driver instructors.

NISSAN has launched a specially adapted police specification Primera after conducting a year-long trial with Hampshire Constabulary.

COMPANY car drivers must be vigilant at all times about the security of their cars, with 35% of car crime occurring outside a driver's house or in an adjacent street.

PROPERLY implemented risk management policies can help fleets achieve a major reduction in their claims frequency and insurance costs.

Average repair cost. Calculation by vehicle class.

LIFESTYLE vehicles are cheaper to repair than ordinary cars, suggesting that the elevated driving position of MPVs and 4x4s serves as a valuable safety feature.

ROGUE company car drivers are responsible for inflating fleet accident and claims records by a massive amount. The 1998 VELO Fleet Insurance Review has revealed that 17% of drivers were responsible for more than half of all incidents and half of total costs, and the worst 'unlucky 13' averaged a claim every six weeks, causing 102 accidents and costing their employers over £350,000 in total.

NEWLY-floated prestige dealer group Sytner has posted impressive maiden results just three months after securing a London Stock Exchange listing late last year.

KWIK-FIT Holdings plc has announced record pre-tax profits of £55.1 million on record sales, for the year to February 28, 1998.

VOLKSWAGEN has confirmed prices for the new Golf, which will go on sale in the UK in May with the model making its long-awaited debut in right-hand-drive form at the 1998 Fleet Motor Show at Donington Park.

ROLAND Moens, managing director of Europcar UK, has resigned from the company following its acquisition of British Car & Van Rental.

VAUXHALL has told unions representing 10,000 workers that an agreement on higher productivity should secure the future of Luton as a major General Motors European car plant.

FIRST National Vehicle Contracts has won the largest contract in its history - a £15 million solus contract hire, leasing and fleet management deal with the Central Buying Consortium.

PHH Vehicle Management Services is to start marketing motoring products to the 3.5 million customers of Green Flag, following its parent company's acquisition of National Parking Corporation, which owns Green Flag and NCP car parks.

CONTRACT hire, crash repair and dealer group Perry has reported a healthy increase in profits after strong growth in its bodyshop and contract hire divisions in the year to December 31 1997.

LENGTHENING vehicle delivery times had an adverse impact on Autolease's fleet size for the financial year to December 31, 1997.

CALOR Autogas has announced a joint initiative with Halfords to make gas-powered vehicles far more accessible to fleets.

THE controversial £25 vehicle first registration fee will be introduced on April 1, the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency has announced.

THE fleet industry must continue its intensive lobbying of the Government in the run-up to the May publication of the integrated transport white paper.

MORE than 9,000 fleet decision-makers have registered for the 1998 Fleet Motor Show with six weeks to go until the four-day event opens and two of the UK's leading contract hire and leasing companies have just booked exhibition space.

BRITAIN'S strong pound is driving Rover further into the red and the company now seems unlikely to meet its aim of breaking even by the end of the decade.

INDEPENDENT Car Auctions is promising to turn the UK disposal market upside down following its acquisition of National Car Auctions.

A NEW player has arrived on the used car supermarket scene in the form of Maxcar.

POWERMARQUE has announced five new contract hire deals, with a total order value of £4.3 million.