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One of the more game-changing trends in 2016 and 2017 has been the majors' outsourcing of small fleet card operations to third party providers. Superficially, at least, this may look like an odd strategy: margins in the "local account" segment are up to five times those achievable from larger fleet customers, so you might expect today's market…

You don't need to spend long on Western Europe's motorways to notice the dramatic changes which have occurred in commercial traffic patterns over the last decade. Spend just a few minutes noting down the registration plates of any truck you pass, and you'll be recording as many Polish, Lithuanian, Slovakian, Romanian and Turkish plates as German or…

Understanding a fleet cost centre may not be rocket science, but you could argue that today's service providers don't do much to make it easier. Imagine operating a fleet of a hundred or so sales reps or service engineers....getting to grips with the costs of that activity will still involve extracting and combining data from a leasing company, a…

Anyone, in any market sector, will tell you that they work in a "fiercely competitive" market. The fuel cards, or more properly fuel payments sector, has been just the same.