Fleet Management Briefing and Webfleet Solutions survey – Sustainability in focus
With the sale of new petrol and diesel cars and vans being banned from 2030, and clean air zones being rolled out, businesses must plan for a sustainable future. Your valuable insights will help us determine the focus on fleet sustainability for operators ahead of this key date. Please don’t forget to provide us with […]
Ford and Hermes partner on autonomous delivery vehicles
Ford has announced a new Self-Driving Vehicle Research Programme designed to help businesses in Europe understand how autonomous vehicles can benefit their operations. Hermes is the first business to partner with Ford on the programme. Using a customised Ford commercial vehicle, the research aims to better understand how other road users would interact with an […]
5 Minutes With… Beverley Wise, Sales Director UK & Ireland, Webfleet Solutions
In the latest instalment of our fleet management executive interview series, we spoke to Beverley Wise, Sales Director UK & Ireland at Webfleet Solutions, about the company, the ongoing impact of COVID-19 on the industry, rising expectations on standards of service and the importance of telematics… Tell us about your company, products and services. Webfleet […]
Fleet Summit: Last call for delegate places
This is your last chance to register for the Fleet Summit, which takes place on the the 7th & 8th July at Whittlebury Park (Golf & Spa Hotel) in Northamptonshire. We understand that your time is precious and extremely limited, which is why we want to ensure that you don’t miss out on this entirely free pass […]
Do you specialise in Fleet Contract Hire & Leasing? We want to hear from you!
Each month on Fleet Management Briefing we’re shining the spotlight on a different part of the fleet market – and in July we’ll be focussing on Contract Hire & Leasing solutions. It’s all part of our ‘Recommended’ editorial feature, designed to help fleet buyers find the best products and services available today. So, if you’re a […]
Business confidence ‘drives cautious recovery’ in car registrations
With the year’s first full month of showroom openings, new car registrations in May reached 156,737 units, according to the latest figures from the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT). The total represents an almost eightfold increase on the same month last year, but is down -14.7% on pre-pandemic May 2019, and -13.2% on […]
Join the industry at next month’s Fleet Summit
As a fleet professional, we’d like to personally invite you next month’s Fleet Summit on the the 7th & 8th July at Whittlebury Park (Golf & Spa Hotel) in Northamptonshire. We understand that your time is precious and extremely limited, which is why we want to ensure that you don’t miss out on this entirely free pass that […]
Motorparc: Total vehicles on UK roads falls to 40.35m
Vehicle numbers on UK roads fell to 40,350,714 in 2020, according to Motorparc data released today by the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT), the first time the total number has fallen since the global financial crisis of 2009. As the pandemic stifled new vehicle uptake, the average age of cars on UK roads […]
Record numbers of vans on UK roads
Commercial vehicles now account for 13.1% of all vehicles on the road in Britain – the highest recorded this century, according to figures released by the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT). SMMT’s annual automotive census has revealed that, as of the end of 2020, there were 4,604,861 vans, 589,445 trucks, and 73,608 buses […]
Oxford to get ‘Europe’s most powerful’ EV charging hub
UK-based Pivot Power, part of EDF Renewables, and Oxford City Council have joined up with Fastned, Tesla Superchargers and Wenea to deliver what they are calling Europe’s most powerful EV charging Superhub. The hub, initially featuring 38 fast and ultra-rapid chargers in a single site, is the most powerful in Europe – with up to […]
