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Association Of Car Fleet Operators (ACFO): ACFO offers up-to-the-minute information, excellent advice and training to support quality fleet management, for those everyone involved in running/managing a fleet, whether as a full-time professional, or on a part-time basis along with other responsibilities. Joining ACFO will give your organisation unrivalled access to a wealth of practical knowledge. There are nine regions around Great Britain, so whether your business operates five or 5,000 vehicles, there will be a local branch waiting to help you achieve the very best practice in the industry.

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Comment: LeasePlan UK on the ACFO’s report on the salary sacrifice scheme

From Matthew Dyer, Commercial Director, LeasePlan UK The recent report by ACFO regarding the appetite for salary sacrifice schemes was interesting. It should, however, be put into context in our view, as by purely focussing on Fleet Manager research it has the potential to misrepresent the true scale of interest. Why is salary sacrifice so [...]

ACFO and DVLA together highlight new V5C

The Association Of Car Fleet Operators (ACFO), the leading organisation for fleet decision-makers, is working with the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) to promote the significant changes being made to the Vehicle Registration Certificate (V5C), which is being rolled out from Sunday (August 15, 2010) in time for the new ‘60’-series registration plate for [...]

ACFO: Interest in salary sacrifice schemes not as high as marketplace suggests

ACFO (Association of Car Fleet Operators), the UK’s leading fleet operators’ organisation, has warned that whilst marketplace comments would have companies believe that salary sacrifice schemes are the ‘new’ employee benefit for 2010 and on the increase, ACFO’s recent voluntary and anonymous on-line survey shows the truer picture is one of much lower interest. Results [...]

ACFO re-elect chairman for another term

Julie Jenner has been unanimously re-elected as chairman of ACFO (Association of Car Fleet Operators), a position she has held since 2006 and one that she will continue in through 2010/11. Julie, key solutions manager for GE Capital Solutions, who was re-elected at a recent ACFO board meeting said: “My job means that I am [...]

ACFO comment on Emergency Budget

The Association of Car Fleet Owners (ACFO), the not-for-profit organisation, has released its reaction to the recent Emergency Budget. ACFO chairman Julie Jenner said: “The increase in the rate of VAT from 17.5% to 20% from January 4, 2011 will clearly increase the cost of new cars, fuel and servicing, maintenance and repairs. “As a [...]

ACFO wants ‘green’ vehicle talks with new government

The ACFO (Association of Car Fleet Owners) is anxious to open dialogue with the new coalition Government as soon as possible to ensure that future tax changes take account of the real world availability of low and zero emission vehicles. The newly formed Government is to announce its Parliamentary legislative programme in a Queen’s Speech, to be [...]

ACFO shows fleets ‘how to’ conform to best practice.

ACFO (Association of Car Fleet Owners), the UK’s premier not-for-profit  organisation for fleet decision-makers, has produced ‘ACFO Best Practice Guide to Employee Driving Document Checking’, the first in a series of ‘how to’ best practise guides, which have been launched to advise and influence public and private sector fleet policies and procedures. This first 11-page [...]

ACFO and ICFM join forces

Two of the industry’s hardest working associations, ACFO (Association of Car Fleet Operators) and the Institute of Car Fleet Management (ICFM), both not-for-profit organisations, are to join forces with one another on areas of mutual benefit in order to promote their respective organisations. It is hoped that as a result of closer collaboration they will [...]

ACFO calls for Advisory Fuel Rates review to help struggling company car drivers

The Association of Car Fleet Operators (ACFO) Membership Secretariat Office has been inundated with calls from members concerned at the increasing divide between the HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) schedule of Advisory Fuel Rates (AFRs) and current forecourt prices of petrol and diesel. The current AFRs (see table below) were last revised in December 2009 [...]

ACFO Chairman comments on budget

The Association of Car Fleet Operators (ACFO) Chairman Julie Jenner has commented on the 2010 Budget: “The Government’s decision to implement in three stages the widely anticipated 3p a litre rise in fuel duty is to be welcomed. However, for Chancellor Alistair Darling to suggest that the move will help businesses is disingenuous. “With pump [...]

Budget comment: ACFO chairman Julie Jenner

“The Government’s decision to implement in three stages the widely anticipated 3p a litre rise in fuel duty is to be welcomed. However, for Chancellor Alistair Darling to suggest that the move will help businesses is disingenuous. “With pump prices already close to record levels – despite the ‘low’ price of crude oil – businesses [...]

Budget talk: What leading fleet industry figures want to see…

In what is the last budget before the general election the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Alistair Darling MP, will raise aloft the red briefcase tomorrow, for perhaps the final time. Fleet operators the length and breadth of the UK will be eager to hear what impact any announcements will have on their company. Only 11 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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