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Quentin Willson will be chairing a special forum on electric vehicles and low emission fleets at Company Car in Action.

Grafton Merchanting GB has appointed Zenith to provide a salary sacrifice car scheme to its eligible employees over a two or three-year period.

Cool Express, specialist temperature controlled couriers has renewed its longstanding arrangement with AGM Telematics using AGM’s RouteMaster tracking system.

There are two distinct pillars emerging in the used LCV market, as volumes of vehicles aged two to four years and those over six-years-old witness growth.

TÜV SÜD Auto Service has acquired TCOPlus and its sister company, FleetVision.

City Auction Group has created a new fleet management department, following significant growth and development of its corporate vendor portfolio.

The Royal Borough of Greenwich in London has appointed City Car Club as its car sharing partner.

ExxonMobil and McLaren-Honda have teamed up to host a driver-efficiency challenge to reward safe and fuel-efficient driving.

Total Accident Management has teamed up with Omnia after a two year search for a dynamic telematics partner to support its customers’ 200,000 drivers.

Dhruv S. Parekh has joined Masternaut, European provider of fleet telematics, as chief executive officer.

Close Brothers is now one of the highest rated banks in the UK, following an upgrade of their credit ratings by Moody’s Investors Services.

Small businesses are spending on average almost £1,700 every year maintaining each of their company cars, according to new research.

The BVRLA is once again polling the fleet industry to ascertain opinions on new automotive technology.

Manufacturers are pre-registering cars in ever larger numbers, reports Glass's.

Toyota and Nissan are to recall 6.5 million cars globally due to an airbag safety issue.

Romex World's ‘Driver Protection Application’ has achieved “Highly Recommended” statusfrom TRL, the UK’s Transport Research Laboratory.

Vehicle hire and management company SHB Hire have taken delivery of four two storey buggy delivery trucks.

Ryder has appointed Mary Parker to the new role of national rental sales manager, North.

To meet the growing demand for renting temperature controlled vehicles, the dedicated division of Enterprise Flex-E-Rent has recently expanded its fleet.

R2C Online has launched its 'i2i' issue to invoice SMR authorisation system.

Motiva Group is hoping major investment in new technology can help the company establish itself as one of the leading players in the UK fleet industry.

The Fork Lift Truck Association has warned widespread ‘fair wear and tear’ confusion is putting companies at risk of large end-of-contract bills and disputes.

LeasePlan has announced three new appointments as its funded fleet passes 140,000 for the first time.

JCT600 drove record revenues of £1.025bn in the year to December 31, 2014, an increase of 13% from the previous year’s total sales of £906m.

The president of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport has expressed a desire to address the skills gap in the supply chain sector.

DriverConnex has launched an app to help businesses and their drivers to comply with the new drug-driving law, which came into force in March.

Ford has introduced a new service app designed to benefit drivers of Ford vehicles within the UK and across Europe.

Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles has launched a 13 day Das Welt Auto used van event.

Mazda is aiming for 25% growth in fleet sales in 2015/16.

ECG Facilities Services has ordered 51Škodas, following a vehicle evaluation which covered CO2 emissions, efficiency, storage, comfort and ergonomics.