Fleet management firms must ‘outsource to survive’
3 April 2012
Outsourcing basic vehicle management services, such as breakdown services, repairs and crash assessments, will be the only way for fleet management firms to survive in today’s market, according to a report from Nottingham Business School.
Peter Cooke, head of the Centre for Automotive Industries Management and the report’s author, claimed that vehicle leasing firms are having to find new ways to run their businesses.
Several factors are making vehicle leasing firms rethink their traditional fleet packages, he said. These included the new Transport Act, which supports an aggressive tax regime to...