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Click the thumbs up > Trakm8 has joined the Association of Fleet Professionals (AFP) as a gold partner, where it will offer advice to its members. As a gold member, Trakm8 will use its fleet management solutions and data-driven insights to help shape the future of the industry, the company says. Peter Mansfield, group sales and marketing director at Trakm8, said: “We’re very excited to be joining the AFP, an organisation that shares our values of wanting to engage with the industry and identify areas where we can provide solutions that offer real change. “We look forward to a long and f...

Date: 22 January 2021   |   Author: Sean Keywood Company car numbers have been declining, but most who drive them now expect to continue, according to new research. The BVRLA has launched a new 'Company Car Report', produced in association with business consultancy Steer, which it says gives insight into the number of company cars on the road, the people that drive and manage them, and what motivates their decisions. Research for the report, which was carried out before the Covid-19 pandemic, consisted of analysing data, and also surveying both current an...

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 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 loo...

5 people found this useful 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 stri...