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Overconfidence and complacency is leading to widespread illegal risk-taking on roads, warns Brake, the road safety charity.

Fleet services provider ARI has acquired HPI Fleet and its related European business entities.

The price of de-fleeted cars at auction rose for the first time in three months, with values increasing by £390 (or 5.6%) during September, according to Manheim.

Ford has revealed technology developed to enable drivers to park at the touch of a button from inside or outside their car.

Perk drivers, who receive a company car as part of their benefits package, are racking up far higher accident costs than their commercial vehicle counterparts, according to new research from LeasePlan.

New rules that came into force last week will eventually require thousands of companies to highlight their greenhouse gas emissions in their annual reports, including those from vehicles they ‘own or control’.

Alphabet is looking to more than double the adoption of plug-in electric cars, from 4,200 to 10,000, in the next three years through the launch of its business consultancy service, AlphaElectric.

Employers are being urged to support a claim against HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) in a bid to reclaim wrongly-paid National Insurance Contributions (NIC) on car allowances.

ALS Environmental has selected Paragon routing and scheduling software to plan collections and deliveries of water, earth and air samples for testing at its specialist laboratories.

A police force expects to save more than £500,000 a year after it finishes fitting telematics to its vehicle fleet.

‘Leadership in Fleet Management’ is the theme of the next annual national members’ conference of the Institute of Car Fleet Management (ICFM).

Residual Values projected for the New Peugeot 308 will be among the highest in the segment, based on figures released by industry expert CAP Monitor.

A wide-ranging review into how the Driver Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) can deliver better services and save money for the taxpayer has been launched today by Roads Minister Stephen Hammond.

Xylem Water Solutions UK is seeing RED thanks to a flexible leasing solution from Pendragon Contracts, which will eliminate the end of contract damage concerns and charges that LCV operators hold.

The Wales Audit Office’s Good Practice Exchange is today (9 October) holding the third in a series of shared learning events on the topic of Asset Management.

Vehicle tracking systems can help create savings of up to 40% on fleet fuel costs, according to Ram Tracking.

Tusker has been named in the Sunday Times Hiscox Tech Track 100 of the top-performing technology-based companies in the UK.

A website not a phone number on the back of a van is best for business, while a spelling mistake can halve the number of potential customers, according to AXA.

BEN has revealed plans for a state-of-the-art care facility at its Lynwood Care Centre, in Sunninghill, near Ascot.

Motorbodies Ltd has joined the Fix Auto accident repair centre group.

Citroen scored a hat-trick last month with its best ever September LCV sales, the Berlingo taking first place in the small van sector and market share up by 25.91% for the first three-quarters of 2013.

Telogis has launched Telogis for Utilities, an industry-specific extension of its location intelligence platform.

Skoda has just recorded its strongest ever September sales figures, with 10,380 registrations for the key ‘new registration’ month.

A question and answer session with the DVLA proved a crowd-puller at the ACFO London East regional meeting.

Employees have been refusing to drive their own cars on business use at a Welsh county council after it withdrew its annual car allowance of £1,000 for grey fleet users.

Hitachi Capital Commercial Vehicle Solutions has extended their long-term partnership with Centrica for a further five years.

Thousands of company car and van drivers are putting themselves and other road users at risk through tired driving, research suggests.

In 2010, passenger cars in the UK were driven more than 380 billion kilometres using petrol or diesel, while freight vehicles covered 174 billion tonne-kilometres.

Toyota says it reaped the benefits of its comprehensive renewal of its core family market models in September with impressive results recorded by its Auris hatchback, Verso MPV and RAV4 compact SUV, all of which were launched within the past year.

A plan for new Olympic-style trials of out-of-hours deliveries to businesses across London has been announced as part of a wider package of works to deliver a freight legacy for London.