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Suzuki has appointed Helen Ward as its field-based corporate sales & leasing manager - a new position that has been created as part of the company's strategy to build its corporate sales business.

The shocking consequences and high cost of tyre failures have been revealed in a series of new CCTV clips unveiled by the Highways Agency and TyreSafe as part of October’s tyre safety month.

Auto Styling Truckman, the Midlands-based 4x4 accessories provider, has achieved an 11% increase in turnover benefiting from the rise in UK sales of commercial vehicles.

Maxxia, provider of enterprise-wide financing solutions and part of the Australian McMillan Shakespeare Group, has strengthened its UK operations with the acquisition of CLM Fleet Management.

The revised Audi A8 will offer a quattro-only line-up as improvements in engine efficiency reduce emissions.

Cenex has announced its event venue and dates for its seventh annual Low Carbon Vehicle Event - LCV2014.

AXA Business Insurance reveals a lack of proper van maintenance could mean a four-fold (plus) increase in accident levels.

Ctrack has teamed up with Applied Driving Techniques (ADT) to integrate its advanced vehicle tracking systems with the company’s fleet compliance solution

Confectionary company Wrigley has recently taken delivery of 35 new Ford Mondeos as part of a fleet review that should see the company generate more than £1 million in company car savings under the guidance of GE Capital’s Fleet Services division.

Korean manufacturer Kia Motors is the fastest growing brand in a top ten league table of the best-selling models of 2013 at fleet management and leasing specialist, Fleet Alliance, based on new cars ordered by fleet customers this year.

Fleets are failing to make the latest fuel efficient vehicles pay their way because many employees have never received the correct driver training.

Fleets are being given the opportunity to understand whether ultra-low emission vehicles (ULEVs) could work for them through data gained from a series of real-world tests.

Six out of 10 (63%) travel, leisure and transportation businesses were affected by fraud in the last 12 months, according to new figures from the 2013 Kroll Global Fraud Report.

Businesses are being urged to attend a London seminar that could collectively net organisations hundreds of millions of pounds in wrongly paid National Insurance Contributions (NIC) on car allowances.

The latest AA British Insurance Premium Index shows the biggest annual drop in premiums since the Index started in 1994.

The Government has announced new reforms to counter whiplash fraud and reduce costs for motorists.

AutoRestore is expanding its workforce with the recruitment of a further 50 technicians.

LeasePlan Go will supply vehicles to Leeds United as part of a two-year sponsorship deal.

Fix Auto has recruited Blade Accident Repair Centre, the Swindon-based bodyshop of the franchised dealer Blade Group, to its network of vehicle repair bodyshops.

Brake, the road safety charity, has published guidance on how fleet managers can use in-vehicle technology to help improve driver safety.

Hertz has signed a partnership with Oxford Brookes University enabling more than 3,000 staff and 18,500 students to rent low emission and electric cars by the hour.

Mercedes-Benz has launched of Daimler Fleet Management, as reported by Fleet News in May.

An electronic fuel cap device has been launched to counteract the war on fuel theft.

Seven out of ten motorists in the UK are against the clocks going back this week, according to a new survey.

Campaign for cycle safety released in Leeds, Manchester, Bristol, Birmingham and Cambridge.

A government-backed project, which is demonstrating how fleets of all sizes can cut fuel costs by up to 75%, has reached its halfway point.

Employers are reducing two headline areas of corporate concern – CO2 reduction and occupational road risk management – by introducing car salary sacrifice schemes.

The public sector is being urged to use car clubs to help cut grey fleet mileage and stop some employees being paid more than £5 per mile to drive their own car.

Organisations that introduce a pool car scheme or give employees access to a car club have found they can wipe out a large slice of grey fleet mileage.

Fleet data provider KeeResources has launched a new version of its Kwikview vehicle data lookup software.