Fleets with vehicles impacted by the current lockdown are being urged to start thinking about how they will remobilise their operations when the pandemic ends.
Click the thumbs up >The first Fleet News at 10 webinar will be held at 10am this Friday 29 January and will feature a guest panel of leading fleet decision-makers discussing the month’s biggest news and hottest industry topics.
Aimed at fleet decision-makers and the wider fleet sector, the first Fleet News at 10 webinar is being sponsored by Chargepoint and will last for 45 minutes. Sign up here.
Each webinar will take place at 10am on the final Friday of the month (full dates below). The panel of fleet professionals will dig beneath the surface of the month’s major news stories to debate their impact on the fleet sector and how they are reacting within their own businesses.
Click the thumbs up >The fleet industry is better placed to handle the challenges of a national lockdown as a result of new skills learnt at the start of the pandemic, according to the Association of Fleet Professionals (AFP).
Chair Paul Hollick (pictured) explained that while there was widespread fatigue surrounding the current situation, industry professionals now knew exactly how to handle its demands.
“Fleet managers are now experienced in this area and almost have a ‘lockdown mode’ into which they shift, where they move to meet a different set of priorities and needs from when looser restrictions are in place.
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MOT test centres will remain open during the third national lockdown, announced by Prime Minister Boris Johnson on January 4.
The new, stricter restrictions mirror those seen during the first lockdown, but the Government says that MOT services will remain operational, unlike last year when MOT test centres were forced to close their doors, and drivers were granted a six-month MOT exemption from March 30, 2020.
MOT test sites remained opened during the second lockdown last year, as garages learned from their experiences from the first time around and have strict procedures in place that have enabled them to stay open for business, said Chris Crow, Fleet Assist s head of network.
Paul Hollick (pictured), chairman of the Association of Fleet Professionals (AFP), shares his thoughts
The AFP was formed in March 2020 from the merging of the Association of Car Fleet Operators (ACFO) and the Institute of Car Fleet Management (ICFM), to provide a new voice for the fleet sector in the UK – and has proven an immediate success. Chair Paul Hollick picks out seven major trends that he expects to see across the industry in 2020.
The impact of the coronavirus crisis on fleets will mean change for the vast majority of businesses and, although there are some growth areas, rightsizing will normally mean a reduction in the number of vehicles you operate as redundancies are made.