What Is Fleet Management?
The purpose of Fleet Management is to optimise the procurement, operation and disposal of a fleet of vehicles. Typically, this would concentrate on areas of cost, asset and risk management including compliance with legislation.
Q. Would you ask your sales manager to prepare your annual company accounts?
A. The answer is clearly no.
This employee, although numerate and literate, is unlikely to understand the very specialized discipline of accountancy and they are more profitably employed managing the sales team. So why would you ask an unqualified employee to manage your fleet operations?
At this point you may be thinking that all this sounds fine however, with our small to medium sized fleet, employing a skilled and experienced professional fleet manager is out of the question. We would agree and can offer a perfect solution at a fraction of the cost with much greater flexibility.
Typical Fleet Management Tasks
The tasks required for the efficient and responsible management of any fleet should include:
Maintenance Management
- Selection and management of appropriate service and maintenance providers to cover the fleet’s geographical area of operations
- Negotiating reductions in labour and parts costs as well as enforcing adherence to manufacturers specified repair times and recommendations
- Managing efficient maintenance booking procedures to reduce downtime and inconvenience to drivers
- Ensuring that all privately owned vehicles used for any company purposes can be shown to be correctly maintained and comply with all legislation governing the operations of Grey Fleet Vehicles
- Administering and progressing Manufacturers' Warranty Claims
- Selection and management of appropriate tyre fitters to cover the fleet’s geographical area of operations
- Preparation and delivery of the fleet’s tyre policy covering tyre manufacturer preferences and tyre changing/spare tyre policy
Driver Management
- Regular licence checking and driver assessments
- Identify driver development needs and provide ongoing training and monitoring
- Ensuring drivers comply with company procedures and duty of care legislation
Fleet Asset Management
- Delivery of the company's fleet vehicle funding policy
- Selection of the most appropriate models of vehicle to suit the fleet's funding and operational needs
- Negotiation of terms with supplying dealer and manufacturer where appropriate
- Selection and management of appropriate vehicle suppliers
- Planning and management of the fleet’s disposal policy
- Selection and management of the appropriate method and partner for vehicle life end disposal where appropriate
Risk Management
- Ensuring
HSE risk assessment procedures are carried out, acted upon and regularly reviewed as a part of the organisation's wider compliance with its obligations under Law - Ensuring all aspects of fleet operations can be shown to comply with Duty of Care legislation and that the Organisation, Managers and Directors are safe from prosecution under the prevailing regulations
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