A new vehicle hire company aims to provide businesses with a low cost, low carbon vehicle hire solution.
As the UK’s first all-LPG vehicle hire firm, Wolverhampton-based Auto LPG Vehicle Hire provides business customers with a range of LPG vehicles including Ford Transits and Citroen Berlingos, available for short term hire. The firm offers flexible [...]

Non-fault accident assistance company, Helphire is to lose a major contract that accounts for 11 per cent of its turnover and 22 per cent of vehicle hire volume.
In a trading update ahead of the Group’s full year results for the year ended June 30,
2009 to be released on October 2, Helphire also warned that it [...]

The RAC Foundation has called for a full investigation of serious crashes in order to establish effective preventative measures to ensure such accidents do not happen again. RAC Foundation representative Dr Chris Elliott FREng stated that the current culture of investigations merely looking to establish blame needs to be looked at and urged restraint on [...]

New data suggests accidents involving foreign lorries have risen by 10 percent over the past twelve months.
Statistics from leading accident management specialist, Accident Exchange, showed that between March 2008 and February 2009, foreign lorries were the ‘at fault’ party for one in every 378 road traffic accidents the Company handled, representing a increase of 10.07% [...]

Employees who fail or refuse to comply with their employer’s best practice approach to occupational road risk management by withholding  personal information and vehicle data could find themselves in court, says a legal expert.
More than one company has brought to the fore that they are meeting ardent protests when asking employees for information, particularly in [...]

The launch of a SMART (Small to Medium Area Repair Technology) repairs trial, operating initially from six locations sees Kwik-Fit Fleet as the first fast-fit company to move into this area.
Kwik-Fit is Britain’s largest independent fast-fit company and will be able to offer the very latest revolutionary techniques to make scuffed alloys, scratched, dented and [...]

Accident management and credit vehicle hire company Helphire is aiming to raise £50 million, its second fund-raising drive in under 12 months, by selling new shares.
The bid to raise funds through the selling of about 151.5 million shares at 33p each, a 21 per cent reduction on Thursday’s (April 9) closing price, comes as the [...]

Last minute interest in the Fleet Safety Forum Awards for Excellence run by the national Road safety charity Brake, has pushed the deadline for entries to the April 30 2009 in order to accommodate the continued influx . The event is being sponsored by ARVAL and will be hosted at Chesford Grange, Warwickshire. Organisations that [...]

Following a successful year of growth, Total Accident Management, the fleet repair and claims management subsidiary of Helphire Group plc, has appointed a National Accounts Manager and Marketing Manager to boost its Bristol based business operation.
Carol Rusdale-Jones joins the company as National Accounts Manager, bringing a wealth of experience working for a diverse portfolio of [...]

Fast-growing fleet software company Jaama is celebrating its fourth anniversary with a move to new premises to enable expansion to continue.
Jaama, which also specialises in providing software systems to contract hire and daily rental companies, moved to new premises in Tamworth at the end of September.
The offices are almost four times the size of its [...]