Have you been thrown in the deep end to fleet management, or are you just finding it difficult to asssimilate the many changing facets of finding the optimum performance for your fleet insurance and fleet management.
You will more than likely be doing a juggling act of cost cutting with ongoing reviews of company car policies thrown in with environmental issues regarding your fleet. You need also to be on top of the health and safety implications as well as your cost efficiency while reviewing and tweaking your motor fleet insurance and management.
In 2009 some surveys have shown that 30% of companies are undergoing thorough reviews of their company car policies. The evidence is that many companies are trying to achieve the balance between the cost issues, environment and health and safety issues. As companies analyse there are increasing requirements to find cost effective motor fleet insurance policies and at times these need to be combined fleet insurance policies.
Firstly considering the health and safety issues, it is good to be aware that a fair number of employers have now come to the conclusion that their drivers would be safer and more protected in company vehicles.
Also many of them are finishing with the cash allowance schemes and evidence shows that a lot of organisations have been encouraged by new legislation to re-assess the risks involved when employees use their own cars. The overall conclusion has been the company cars carry less risks.
Regarding both costs and the environment, there is analysis regarding fuel usage and the choice of funding options. Hand in hand with this is that many fleets are putting a cap on CO2 emissions with a lot more in the process of starting to do so. There are incentives to encourage the adoption of hybrid cars with lower emissions.
Other companies are providing diesel only vehicles. In general as part of fleet management there is an increased commitment to monitoring CO2 emissions.
The good news is that as you are re-evaluating and aiming to go greener the insurance companies should not penalise you for this. The types of expectations to have from your motor fleet insurance policy are a choice of cover types or if you need it a combination of cover types.
-Third Party Only Cover
-Third Party, Fire & Theft Cover
-Comprehensive Cover
You may also wish to consider including:
-Windscreen Cover
-Third Party Damage Cover
-Some other aspects which a good fleet insurance provider may also recommend to you are:
-Detached Trailer Cover
-Hazardous Goods Insurance
-Medical Expenses Cover
-24 hour claims assistance
-Uninsured Loss Recovery
-Breakdown & Recovery Assistance
-Personal Effects Cover
-Replacement Vehicle Cover
For the moment the patterns to go greener with fleets are more notable throughout larger companies. However between legalities and genuine concern for our environment this is trickling down throughout companies of all sizes. Current statistics of 2009 state that if an organisation has over 10,000 staff these were the ones that had drafted their policy with the environment in mind whereas companies of 250 staff or less results show that only 40% of these are dealing with the green issues.
Even though it does cause extra work there are long term positive cost implications to be had as well as the environmental benefits.
