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Thursday, March 18th 2010

All the latest news from Association Of Car Fleet Operators (ACFO)

Pre Budget comment: ACFO

“The Pre-Budget Report announced today (Wednesday, December 9) confirms ACFO’s view of what was probable, and provides the relative stability for the sector that we asked for when we met with the Exchequer secretary in October.  “With powerful tax incentives for take-up of electric cars and vans from April next year, and the confirmation of further [...]

ACFO Awards Presented To Top Fleet Vehicle Manufacturers

The 2009 ACFO Fleet Car and Vans of the Year Awards have this year recognised the fully accomplished fleet operating performance of the Volkswagen Golf, Ford Transit Connect, Volkswagen Caddy and Mercedes-Benz Sprinter with voting based on their real world use in fleets over the past 12 months. ACFO chairman Julie Jenner presented the four [...]

ACFO 2009 Fleet Car & Van Awards Announced

The Association of Car Fleet Operators (ACFO) 2009 Awards, which were voted for online for the first time ever, have been announced after a record number of members took the time to log their favourites. The method of voting was not the only first this year with the first-ever tie for one of the three [...]

ACFO Denounce Scrappage Scheme

ACFO, the major representative body for car and van fleet operators, fears its concerns over the Government scrappage scheme may have been realised with the latest new vehicle registration figures from SMMT (Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders), revealing the massive decline in the sale of new cars and vans to businesses this year and [...]

ACFO Recruits Medium And Small Businesses

The Association Of Car Fleet Operators (ACFO), the UK’s premier organisation for fleet decision-makers, has launched a new recruitment drive, which recognises part-time fleet decision-makers in small and medium-sized business and the continuing evolution of car and van management that means an increasing number of people need help with implementing cost-effective best practice policies and [...]

Government Called On For Accurate At-Work-Drivers Data

ACFO, the UK’s premier organisation for fleet decision-makers, has called on the Government to gather accurate data to clearly identify at-work driving duty of care failings by public and private sector organisations in its submission to the Department for Transport, part of its nationwide consultation on a new road safety strategy set to be introduced [...]

ACFO Extends Membership To Recognise Changes

ACFO, the UK’s premier organisation for fleet decision-makers, has recognised that the economic downturn has resulted in some redundancy situations that have left managers of HR, finance and procurement  departments inheriting the responsibility for corporate fleet operations and as such its membership is being actively extended to help support non-professional and, in many cases, part-time [...]

More Industry Response To 2009 Budget

Jason Francis, Managing Director, Jaama made comment on the scrappage scheme and fuel duty: “The launch of a scrappage scheme in a bid to kick-start new car sales is a big mistake and is hugely flawed in its logic. The scheme fails to address the fundamental problem in the motor industry, which is that too [...]

ACFO 2009 Conference And AGM Keeps Fleet Firmly In The Spotlight

The Association of Car Fleet Operators (ACFO) will be hosting their 2009 Conference and AGM on Tuesday, May 12 and hot topics under the spotlight will include cost management, at-work driver safety and the crisis-hit motor industry. The UK’s leading fleet decision-maker’s event is sponsored by Peugeot Motor Company and will place at their Conference Centre [...]

What does the Budget hold for the fleet industry?

All eyes in the motor industry will be trained on the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Alistair Darling MP on April 22nd when he raises aloft the famous red briefcase and delivers perhaps his most important budget. With speculation reaching fever pitch as to whether the embattled UK motor industry will receive a welcome shot in the [...]

Green Light For Scrappage Scheme

A car scrappage scheme, expected to offer buyers a £2000 incentive to buy new or nearly-new if their old vehicle is scrapped, looks set to be given the green light in the 2009 Budget statement due on April 22. Reports in the Easter weekend National newspapers have predicted that an old car scrappage scheme designed to [...]

Fleet body lobbies for scrappage scheme

The Association of Car Fleet Operators (ACFO) has called on the government to sponsor a UK wide new and used car scrappage scheme to help the embattled motor industry. Consequently, the leading fleet decision-makers’ organisation says a scrappage scheme should incentivise the purchase of vehicles up to four-years-old powered by engines that meet Euro4 emission standards [...]

Tax Rise Fears Increase As Fleets Fail To Act With New Corpoation Tax Rules Looming

ACFO (Association of Car Fleet Operators), the largest UK body representing the interests of businesses, which operate cars and vans as part of their normal commercial activities has claimed that companies will face significant increases in their corporation tax bills from April 1 if they fail to reflect changes in business car capital allowances in [...]

Ford Wins ACFO Award for 14th Year

The Association of Car Fleet Operators (ACFO) have once again given their top commercial vehicle award to Transit and Transit Connect.  Ford Transit was awarded Fleet Panel Van of the Year for the 14th successive year and Transit Connect won Fleet Light Van for the sixth successive year. ACFO represents professional businesses running vehicle fleets across [...]

ACFO Comment On The Pre-Budget Report

“Chancellor Darling’s much-leaked Pre-Budget Report contained few enough surprises but has provided some cost relief for fleets on future Vehicle Excise Duty rates. While recognising the need to link higher-emitting vehicles with appropriate taxation, ACFO has consistently lobbied government to avoid retrospective taxation, and only to apply new rates of VED on new vehicle procurement [...]

An Interview with ACFO, the Association of Car Fleet Operators

Read the latest Question & Answer session between ContractHireAndLeasing.com and Julie Jenner, chairman of the Association of Car Fleet Operators (ACFO)  Julie talks at length about the latest issues effecting Fleet Operators up and down the country, from the forthcoming changes in Corporation Tax, road taxation and congestion charges, to road management and the switching off of speed [...]

ACFO calls for government clarity with fleet operators concerned and confused over new tax changes

Fleet decision-makers are both confused and concerned over the forthcoming changes in corporation tax rules as the clock continues to tick down to their introduction in April 2009. That was the overwhelming consensus from two seminars organised by fleet operators’ organisation ACFO and sponsored by leading vehicle leasing and management specialist LeasePlan. The confusion and concern expressed [...]

ACFO directors get re-elected

During the Association of Car Fleet Operator’s annual conference last week members also held its annual general meeting. This saw ACFO directors Brian Ingham, a director of Ace Vehicle Deliveries and a board member since 2000 and Phil Redmond, a board member since 2006 and IBM’s fleet manager, both re-elected for a further year. Simon McBride

Driver training may only last for a short-term fix

At the recent ACFO conference, members have been warned that driver training without implementing systematic changes to a business’s safety policy have only a short term impact. This was according to motoring safety expert Tim Marsh. Marsh, a qualified psychologist and safety expert stated further, “Even the best safety training speeches only had an impact for [...]

Green input needed from fleets!

The Department for Transport at the ACFO conference has asked fleets to help build information on a new green transport report that is in the pipeline. Keynote speaker, Michael Hurwitz the policy advisor from the DfT urged fleet bosses to provide input on improving the environmental credentials of UK transport for a new report he is [...]

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