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ALD Increases Green Fleet At Customer Demand

ALD Automotive, the leading contract hire and leasing company, has released data that shows fleets are taking delivery of environmentally-friendly cars in record numbers due to environmental awareness and cost astuteness.
ALD Automotive operates a fleet of around 50,000 vehicles that in 2009 averaged an all-time low of 145.5 g/km in CO2 emissions for new company [...]

Author: Amanda White, January 21, 2010
Filed under: ALD Automotive, Fleet news

In-car telematics helps police recover £1m worth of stolen cars

Forty company cars worth £1 million have been returned to their drivers thanks to being equipped with ALD Automotive’s unique ProFleet2 telematics system.
Around half of ALD’s 50,000-vehicle fleet are now equipped with the company’s multi award-winning ProFleet2 system.
The technology provides companies with key management data to improve operating efficiencies with related financial savings, compliance with [...]

Author: Lee Sibbald, November 30, 2009
Filed under: ALD Automotive, Fleet news

ALD Automotive’s Net Mileage Plan Saves Companies £££’s On NI Bills

ALD Automotive, the leading contract hire and leasing company, has introduced Net Mileage Plan as a new component within its AutoSolutions portfolio and is letting businesses across Britain know that they could save themselves thousands of pounds in National Insurance contributions by amending the way they reimburse mileage payments to employees who take cash in [...]

Author: Amanda White, November 22, 2009
Filed under: ALD Automotive, Fleet news

ALD Automotive staff aid cancer charity

Employees at the Northampton and Milton Keynes’ offices of contract hire and leasing company ALD Automotive have raised £1,335 for The Sarcoma Trust.
A team of 16 employees raised £1,280 with a sponsored climb of Helvellyn in the Lake District, which at 950 metres (3,117 feet) is England’s third highest peak. Further money was raised from [...]

Author: Lee Sibbald, November 17, 2009
Filed under: ALD Automotive, Fleet news

Fleets Continue To Go Green In Bid To Cut Costs

ALD Automotive, leading contract hire and leasing company and collator of data analysis, have concluded that cost-conscious fleet decision-makers and company car drivers continue to choose low emission vehicles in record numbers and  to travel fewer miles.
This information is confirmed by the following facts: In the first nine months of 2009 average CO2 emissions of [...]

Author: Amanda White, October 13, 2009
Filed under: ALD Automotive, Fleet news

ALD secure Thames Water Sole Supply Contract

ALD Automotive has secured a three year sole supply contract with Thames Water, who presently operate a fleet of some 2,700 vehicles and mobile plant equipment, which includes 1,600 light commercial vehicles, 700 essential business user company cars and 50 HGVs.
Currently more than 750 units, mainly vans and company cars, are leased from a number [...]

Author: Amanda White, August 11, 2009
Filed under: ALD Automotive, Fleet management software, Fleet news

Emissions slashed but performance not compromised in company car analysis

Fleets are downsizing the company cars they choose, but while engine size is getting smaller there is no compromise on performance and the big winner is carbon footprint reduction, according to new analysis by leading contract hire and leasing company ALD Automotive.
The standout downsizing trend has been in the upper medium sector, historically, the dominant [...]

Author: Faye Sunderland, July 31, 2009
Filed under: ALD Automotive, Fleet news

Surrey Police sign affinity deal with ALD Automotive

Highly competitive car lease rates for the 3,500 staff employed by Surrey Police are available with the relaunch of the force’s affinity scheme through ALD Automotive.
Initially launched four years ago, ALD Automotive has renegotiated substantially improved terms on new cars from the majority of motor manufacturers delivering in many cases savings of thousands of pounds [...]

Author: Faye Sunderland, July 10, 2009
Filed under: ALD Automotive, Fleet news

ALD Automatic’s ProFleet2 Recovers £700,000 Of Stolen Vehicles

ALD Automotive,the operational leasing and fleet management arm of the Société Générale Group, has experienced major success with it’s ProFleet2 telematics system helping Police recover and return stolen company vehicles worth £700,000 to their rightful and very thankful owners.
Exclusive to ALD, ProFleet2 was the first practical solution launched almost six years ago into the fleet [...]

Author: Amanda White, June 19, 2009
Filed under: ALD Automotive, Fleet management software, Fleet news

ALD Report Record Demand For Greener Vehicles

ALD Automotive, the operational leasing and fleet management arm of the Société Générale Group and manager of more than one million vehicles, has reported record levels of demand for low-emission company cars from its customers. The company reports that in the first four months of 2009 the average CO2 emissions of new company cars added [...]

Author: Amanda White, June 2, 2009
Filed under: ALD Automotive, Fleet news

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