Fleet-Insight May. 2016 | Page 3

Welcome I If you’re involved in fleet, I wouldn’t mind betting that you have a growing stack of fleet publications on the end of your desk. You know they’re packed full of useful information. You’ll get around to them sometime. But how many of them are still in the plastic? And have last year’s date on them? We’re all inundated with material claiming to reveal all we need to know about doing our jobs. But often what’s missing is the real-life story, the truth behind the jargon; the ‘nitty gritty’ of day to day fleet management and how to make it work out there in the real world. Fleet managers come in many guises. From the highly trained, qualified professional right through to that unfortunate new office administrator who’s been given the fleet as part of their job, simply because it didn’t fit anywhere else. We talk to hundreds of both, and everyone in between. Whatever your level of fleet expertise, we know your challenges and we feel your pain. And we’ve created Fleet Insight because of you. Fleet Insight does reveal what you really need to know; we’ve dispensed with the non-facts and gone straight for the heart of the subject, and everything in these pages is aimed at making your life in fleet easier. 2016 marks FleetCheck’s tenth birthday. And we’ve lived, slept and breathed fleet for far longer than that. Fleet Insight helps us to impart that real-life, real-world expertise, and speak directly to those who spend their days navigating the challenging, ever-changing journey we all know as fleet management. Don’t add this one to that pile on your desk. Read it. Enjoy it. I think you’ll be glad you did. Steve Hutton Editor COPYRIGHT 2016 FLEETCHECK LTD Whilst every care has been taken to ensure that the data in this publication is accurate, neither the publisher nor FleetCheck Ltd nor any of its subsidiary or affiliated companies can accept, and hereby disclaim to the maximum extent permitted by law , any liability for loss or damage that may be caused by any errors or omissions this publication may contain. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in any retrieval system, or transmitted in any form—electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise—without prior written permission of the publisher. Information correct at time of going to press. Views expressed are not necessarily those of the publisher or FleetCheck Ltd. Every effort has been made to trace the copyright holders of the material used in this publication. If any copyright holder has been overlooked, we should be pleased to make any necessary arrangements. 03