RESEARCH from the Arval Mobility Observatory indicates that Business Contract Hire (BCH) is going to gain significant traction. Researchers asked businesses whether they expected an increased use of BCH in the next three years: more than a quarter (26%) of fleets said yes, compared with just over one in 10 (12%) when the same question was posed in 2019. Shaun Sadlier, head…
CLEAN Air Zones (CAZ) and the London Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ) are impacting fleet car choice. The change in policy depended on business size: above 1000 employees and with a wider operational footprint saw most impact on change, whereas companies with fewer than 10 staff saw less requirement for change. The research was carried out by Arval for its Mobility Observatory…
TODD Williams has been appointed head of indirect sales (broker and dealer partners), effective 01 July 2020. Williams (pictured above), previously head of broker, has been given an expanded portfolio in a newly focused executive team under Paul Hyne, appointed chief commercial officer this January. Hyne said the changes had been implemented to meet a new range of fleet and mobility offerings…
THE company car has been assaulted on many sides for years with suggestions that it was falling out of favour with employees. And increasing levels of benefit in kind taxation certainly added weight to that argument. But research from Arval, based on its Mobility Observatory, suggests that the company car is an integral part of corporate culture. Fewer than one in five…
ARVAL has produced a fleet manager’s guide to COVID-19 safe vehicles. It is entitled COVID-19: A two step guide to vehicle safety principles. The guide is a distilled version of the government’s advice – but reduced from many pages to just three. Shaun Sadlier, Arval’s head of consultancy, explained: “The document delivered by the Government provides a strong basis for future fleet…
NEW service and maintenance procedures at Arval have been formulated and then made operational within days to keep essential fleets available 24/7 during the coronavirus crisis. Corrine Barton, the head of networks, said there had been a quite sudden demand from a number of key businesses to keep fleets running. These included some of the UK’s largest pharmaceutical and medical supply companies.…
FLEETS in the future will use an increasingly broad range of fuels according to new research from the 2019 Arval Mobility Observatory. An uncertain future for diesel remains, despite technology making the new vehicles cleaner than ever. Alternatively-fuelled vehicles will see the biggest gains. Almost 30% of fleet mobility managers said they would continue to reduce the number of diesels operated, with…
BROKERS could be missing out on additional revenue by not selling telematics packages to business customers. A new report from funder Arval says that technicians and salespeople head the list of company drivers whose cars and vans are being fitted with telematics devices. The Arval Mobility Observatory’s 2019 Barometer report found the league table was: engineers (54%); salespeople (30%); perk car drivers…