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Special Offer – Peugeot 107 1.0 Active

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Welcome to today’s special offer blog from CVSL. Bringing you the best car leasing and contract hire deals you will find online.

Today’s featured offer is the Peugeot 107 Hatchback Active 1.0 5 door model – a stylish city-car known for its nippy three cylinder engine.

See below for a promotional video which displays all the great features and shows the little, quirky motor in action.

The Peugeot 107 1.0 Active is available for just £100.16 per month (excluding VAT) from CVSL on a four year car leasing deal.

Call CVSL today on 0800 085 4256 and find out more about their great Peugeot contract hire offers.

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HOW TO MANAGE THE GREY FLEET EFFECTIVELY

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The grey fleet is an important but often neglected aspect of fleet management. The grey fleet consists of employee-owned vehicles, bought with their own money and reimbursed on a pence per mile basis. It is estimated that there are approximately four million grey fleet cars in the UK– more than three times the number of company cars. Therefore, it is crucial that opportunities to reduce emissions and cut costs are identified. Effective management of the grey fleet is crucial with respect to three key policy areas: financial efficiency, health and safety and environmental sustainability.

For many organisations that operate a grey fleet it will not be practical to eliminate it entirely. For some employees and some journeys, continuing use of the grey fleet will be the best all round option. However, it must be managed properly, and often this is not the case.

The Business Case

The business case for managing the grey fleet stems from the significant amount of money that many organisations spend on reimbursing employees. Managing the grey fleet carefully may well have financial benefits in terms of reduced mileage reimbursement payments. But the importance of employers’ duty of care must not be overlooked. The law is clear – an organisation has a legal duty of care to an employee, regardless of vehicle ownership, so the grey fleet needs to be managed as diligently as company-owned or leased vehicles. Some key factors to consider include:

The most dangerous thing many people do at work is drive. Up to one in three road crashes involves a vehicle being driven for work and it is estimated that there are around 200 work-related deaths or serious injuries on the roads every week. The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) estimates the costs arising from ‘at-work’ road traffic accidents to be in the region of £2.7 billion per year. The Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 states that “it shall be the duty of every employer to ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, the health, safety and welfare at work of all employees.” Employers have a duty of care, therefore, to their employees, no matter how small their grey fleet Furthermore, under the Corporate Manslaughter Act (2007), companies can be prosecuted for deaths of drivers resulting from work-related journeys where negligence is proven. If it can be demonstrated that senior management are responsible for a gross breach of duty of care resulting in death, penalties can be applied including unlimited fines and publicity orders. Therefore it is important for organisations to be proactive in managing

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Greater Manchester gears up for electric cars as charging network is announced

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The Greater Manchester Electric Vehicle (GMEV) scheme – a new electric vehicle charging point network and pay as you go programme, led by Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM) – has been launched.

The scheme has received £1.7million of support from  the Office for Low Emission Vehicle’s (OLEV) funded ‘Plugged In Places’ scheme, as well as a further £1m from the combined authorities' allocated transport budget.

TfGM is working with the Greater Manchester local authorities to identify locations and install a range of charge points for EVs, which will be operational in the summer.

The locations will be across the 10 districts providing commuters with the infrastructure to charge electric vehicles.

Private sector partners, such as NCP, Manchester Central,Manchester Metropolitan University,Salford University and Intu Trafford Centre are also on board, providing their own charging bays to supplement the network.

The GMEV scheme will be operated by Charge Your Car (CYC) a leader in EV charging networks. CYC will manage the payments and access to the GMEV scheme on behalf of TfGM.

Customers wishing to use the charging bays will be able to do so from July. They will be able to either register through the TfGM website and then receive an access card in the post, or simply pay as you go either by phone or by mobile app.

The scheme pricing is yet to be confirmed, but users will pay a flat rate per hour to recharge their vehicle.

To recharge a typical EV (7kwh/32amp capability) fully in a GMEV bay will take around three – four hours and cost no more that £6. This will enable an EV driver to travel around 100 miles.

GMEV charging bays (7kwh/32amp) are capable of charging a typical EV in approximately three – four hours, which is three times faster than charging at home.

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Fifth of the country's roads have potholes

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Potholes are becoming an ever increasing problem to all drivers there popping up faster than daffodils and recent reports seem to confirm this with one in five roads affected by pot holes due to the bad weather. But I don’t think we really need a survey to tell us this as I’m sure everyone who drives has noticed this for themselves.

A survey carried out by the AA of more than 22,000 people has revealed that in the last two years a third of AA members have suffered pothole damage to their cars – and the situation looks set to worsen thanks to 30 per cent more potholes being reported on our road network than at the start of 2012.

This has a massive effect on all drivers and as potholes are a major factor in causing axle and suspension failure, which counts for a third of mechanical problems on the UK roads and costs British motorists an estimated £2.8 billion every year. This can make a massive difference on peoples motoring budgets whether it’s a private vehicle or on a Contract hire vehicle.

Roads in Scotlandand Yorkshire and Humberside were rated as the worst in Britain by those taking part in the AA  poll, with 40 per cent rated as being in poor, very poor or terrible condition.

Northern Ireland,Wales and London have the best roads. However, 50 per said that the pothole problem had grown in the last 12 months

This reflects the effects of very wet and frosty weather on poor road surfaces. Potholes form as water freezes and expands in cracks in the road surface. Passing traffic opens up the damaged road surface and rain washes out loose material

The AA also reports that a recent study by the Asphalt Industry Alliance revealed a £2.5 billion maintenance backlog in England and Wales. This makes things look particularly bleak as there are more potholes, a bigger maintenance backlog and less cash.

A recent report by potholes.co.uk also revealed that potholes are increasing not just in quantity but size too. Its study used data from more than 10,000 pothole reports, and found that the average depth of a pothole had increased from 3in to 4in in the last two years.

It says that with 2012 being the second-wettest since records began, plus the freezing winter conditions, it's no surprise that potholes, which are caused when moisture seeps into cracks in the road surface and then freezes, thus expanding and cracking the road, are worse than ever. But they believe it is not just the weather at fault the under-investment by the Government by using temporary fixes has just escalated the problem over the years.

The advice from the experts is to report potholes to potholes.co.uk or fixmystreet.co.uk. These websites will report the potholes to the relevant local authorities, and monitor the report until the pothole has been repaired. Further more, by reporting a pothole to either of these sites, it becomes a matter of record, which is actionable.  They urge drivers to report potholes to highways authorities to allow them to take action and prevent road users from being endangered and their vehicles suffering damage.

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UK March car sales beat expectations

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March accounts for almost a fifth of the year's trade.

UK new car registrations outperformed expectations in March, jumping almost 6% against a year ago, the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) has said.

The  SMMT said March, when new number plates are released, was typically a strong month for car registrations.

However, the increase this March is well above the almost 2% recorded at the same time last year.

The UK figures defy the EU trend, which remains downwards.

There were 394,806 registrations of cars with the new 13-plate, a 5.9% increase year-on-year, supported by strong demand for private registrations, which rose 7.8%.

Private registrations accounted for 51.7% of the market, followed by fleet (43.5%) and business (4.8%).

Volumes were at their highest since the 2010 Scrappage Incentive Scheme and the increase represents the 13th consecutive month of growth.

The March figures took total registrations for the year-to-date to 605,198, a 7.4% increase on 2012.

It has been the new models and the latest technologies that has been the main reason for attracting the new business

Registrations of petrol-fuelled cars have risen by 12.1% so far in 2013, outselling diesels. This was spurred by growth in the small car and private sector markets, the SMMT reported.

Registrations of alternatively fuelled cars dipped in the month, but rose by 2.9% in the first quarter.

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