“After what was a rather long procurement task with multiple firms offering their services to us, we decided to appoint Fleet Alliance primarily because of the strength of the product offering and the level of customer service they could offer.
“Now, because of the high quality of customer service they have provided, especially by our dedicated account manager Madelaine Webster, we have decided to award Fleet Alliance our management and director grade vehicles as well as our main fleet,” he said.
“Madelaine’s determination and attention to detail, coupled with her flexibility in identifying cars which suit our needs and working on competitive finance package deals, has allowed us to position our fleet in a way which has never been achieved before, as well as reducing fleet operating costs by 10-12% on average,” he added.
Where Fleet Alliance was able to help was by analysing the Ensafe Consultants fleet whole life costs, and then replacing the current mix of VW Caddy Vans and Ford Mondeos with the Vauxhall Insignia Sport Tourer estate model.
The Vauxhall Insignia was the Business Car Manager SME Company Car of the Year.
In addition, managers are able to choose from a higher specification of Audi A4, Mazda6 and VW Passat models. Directors can choose the company car of their choice.
We find the e-fleet system brilliant to use
Other changes made by Fleet Alliance to the Ensafe Consultants’ fleet has been competitive tendering for each new model – savings 8-10% in terms of acquisition costs – and the online fleet management system, e-fleet.
Peter West added: “We find the e-fleet system brilliant to use and it is proving to be a complete end-to-end fleet management solution with an integrated suite of management information reports that allow us to dig deeper into any aspect of the fleet,” he said.
“Prior to using e-fleet, we had a system of manual spreadsheets which were very laborious and sometimes inherent with errors. Now, we can chart the movement of all our drivers far more accurately online which makes a variety of tasks, such the production of P11D reports, far more straightforward,” he added.
