18 March 2021
The Capgemini Research Institute has published a new report, Shifting Gears, which investigates ‘how consumers see the car as a safe space’.
Researchers believe that post-pandemic, people will continue to avoid public transportation – potentially increasing grey fleet use.
A survey of more than 11,000 consumers from 11 countries (the US, the UK, France, Germany, China, the Netherlands, Sweden, Norway, Italy, Spain, and India), in April 2020 found that just 44% of respondents would choose their car over public transport. When asked...
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17 March 2021
After 30 successful years leading the Marshall Leasing business, Peter Cakebread, Managing Director of Marshall Leasing, will be retiring from the business on April 30th 2021.
Peter joined the business in November 1990 and has since been instrumental in establishing Marshall Leasing as a highly successful and widely known leasing business.
James McGee, Managing Director of Northridge Finance, said: “Thanks to Peter’s direction and drive, Marshall Leasing has been recognised by Fleet News and other industry bodies as being exceptional. He...
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16 March 2021
A survey by Cox Automotive has found that orders for new cars, ‘21’ number plate cars in this case, were down by 30% in March 2021 compared with previous years – a month which is usually one of the best performing in terms of car sales.
Cox Automotive Insight and strategy director Philip Nothard said, “The data on car sales during the third lockdown makes for difficult reading, but it also provides some optimism. Seventy percent of dealers report the third lockdown has caused a 10-30% reduction in new car orders, and 17% of...
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15 March 2021
DriveTech has released a new whitepaper, The Global Language of Road Safety and Why it Matters’, which highlights road safety issues in the UK and aims to “inspire widespread thinking” about the language used to communicate road safety.
The report offers practical advice on how to reduce driving risk within a business and provides clear points for a successful driving for work policy.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) have found that 1.35 million fatalities occur across the globe each year as a result of road traffic collisions....
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12 March 2021
Bristol City Council are ready to submit their final proposals for a new clean air zone (CAZ) to the government.
The plans were announced earlier in the year (2021) and Bristol City Council are now prepared to officially submit the proposal of introducing a Class D CAZ, which will require drivers of all older, non-compliant, vehicles to pay a daily fee to enter the small zone which will be in the centre of Bristol.
It is expected that more than 71% of vehicles using the zone are already compliant with the emissions standard, and most petrol vehicles...
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11 March 2021
As reported by The Times, the RAC has found that there were more than 300,000 new privately owned electric vehicles (EVs) in the UK at the end of 2020, compared with the same period in 2019.
The RAC’s analysis of data by the Department for Transport (DfT) found that the number of privately owned EVs in the UK grew from 56,000 in 2019 to 86,000 in 2020.
Despite the fact that there is now a total of 213,000 EVs in the UK, 86,000 of which are privately owned, the RAC has warned that this is still only a small percentage of the total 32 million cars in...
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09 March 2021
The Parliamentary Advisory Council for Transport Safety (PACTS) has published a new report ‘Drink driving – the tip of an iceberg?’ urging the UK government to review their approach to tackling drug driving.
The report found that law enforcement bodies across the UK have drastically different approached to tackling the issue of drug driving. In some cases, the high cost and time needed to conduct blood testing is resulting in police using it only in some cases, instead of as a routine roadside test.
The report details that a...
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08 March 2021
Increased fuel duty, due to take effect next month (April), has been cancelled by Chancellor Rishi Sunak in the Budget 2021.
The Treasury says this could be the last time fleets can expect a freeze in fuel duty and that future rates will be decided taking into consideration the UK’s commitment to reach net-zero emissions by 2050.
The one-year freeze in fuel duty from 2021-22 will cost the Treasury £795m, rising to £885m the year after (2022-23), £910m in 2023-24, £925m in 2024-25 and £945m in 2025-26.
There was no...
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05 March 2021
Earlier this year (2021) Transport Secretary Grant Schapps expressed his discontent with the expansion scheme for smart motorways to MPs and now The Transport Committee has launched an inquiry, investigating how safe they really are.
At the time, the Transport Secretary said, “What I commit to is making sure that the motorways we have in this country are safer than the motorways that came before them. That is the commitment I make. To be robust and clear from the evidence of, sadly, how many people die on our motorways, they are the safest form of...
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03 March 2021
Do you have a diesel car built before 2016 or petrol model built before 2006? If so, you could be paid up to £3,000 in ‘green travel credits’ if you surrender your vehicle.
The scheme, which is targeting the worst polluting vehicles, will be trialled in Coventry beginning this spring (2021) for a two-year period and aims to lower levels of congestion and air pollution by reducing car dependency.
Motorists who participate in the trial, run by Coventry city council and the West Midlands Combined Authority, will be able to spend...
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