How to Ensure the Safety of Your Fleet Drivers

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Our aim at The Fuel Store is to keep our nation’s businesses moving forward by providing fuel cards and other essential fleet services. We also like to ensure fleet driver safety on our busy roads. A new report has highlighted the importance for fleet managers to comply with basic vehicle standards to avoid ‘tragic’ consequences on our roads.

The report, by Brake’s Global Fleet Champions, a not-for-profit global campaign to prevent crashes, states that fleet managers should be regularly checking and servicing safety-critical components, such as brakes and tyres. This will help fix small problems early on before they escalate into costly repairs and expensive insurance claims.

John Eastman, from the Institute of Road Transport Engineers, suggests that fleet managers should take a systematic approach in maintaining their vehicles to ensure fleet driver safety. Mr Eastman says that preventative maintenance has lots of benefits. This includes the safety and well being of drivers and other road users.

There was also advice from Autoglass in the report. They advise fleet managers on how they can effectively maintain advanced driver-assistant systems (ADAS) for the technology to work effectively.

Keeping Up With The Latest Technology

Jeremy Rochfort, national sales manager for Autoglass said: “The adoption rate of ADAS in fleet vehicles is much higher as fleet cars tend to be newer and come with up-to-date safety features. However, our research shows that keeping up to date with technology ranks low down on fleet decision-maker’s priorities.

“That’s why we’re committed to educating the fleet industry on the importance of ADAS calibration and investing in our technical expertise and capabilities to ensure we can match the rising demand for these services.”

For more information, visit https://globalfleetchampions.org/

How We Help Offset Your Carbon Footprint

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As concern for climate change continues to grow, it’s become evident that businesses are keen do more about their environmental footprint. However, due to lack of time and resources, businesses are at a loss at what they can do to offset their carbon footprint. In this post we will discuss the various methods for how businesses can influence their teams on reducing their impact on the environment.

The Fuel Store decided to do all the hard work for our customers by creating The Clean Air Partnership with Forest Carbon.

The membership allows companies to keep their fleets running smoothly, whilst offsetting their C02 omissions. How does the Clean Air Partnership work? Simply put, the clean air partnership works through the planting and management of trees in new woodlands.

Not only do these new green spaces reduce pollution through the absorption of Co2, but they also help us to adapt to our changing climate by helping to reduce flooding, which continues to make headlines across the globe.

New woodland also creates cleaner air and rivers, sustainable timber sources, green space for people and nature to enjoy, and employment creation. It’s a win, win for our customer’s peace of mind and our environment.

The Partnership makes it simple for our customers to give back to the environment by offsetting their carbon footprint. Doing something about this has got to be better than doing nothing. What’s more, you can even use your membership as part of your marketing, PR and CSR programmes.

Make Small Changes

Businesses can also encourage their employees to make small changes in the workplace. These include turning technology off rather than leaving it on standby; turning the office thermostat down; cutting down on unnecessary travel; recycling plastics, paper, and unused furniture; and reducing the use of paper.

Find out more about our Clean Air Partnership here. 

What Are the Benefits of Using Fuel Cards

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Businesses of all kinds are always looking for ways to reduce costs and thus save money. That has not and will never change. However, the ways in which businesses can save money continues to change. As more and more businesses need to be flexible to their clients, the need for Business fuel cards, fleet fuel cards and fleet management services has seen a significant increase in popularity over the years.

This is due to the fact that more careers and job roles now have the requirement for travel. In addition to the fact that cash is becoming less and less popular, for security and hygiene reasons. So, as more fleet managers become aware of the benefits of using fuel cards, are you aware of the many features these fuel cards offer?

This post aims to highlight the benefits of our UK fuel cards, as well as to help you identify the best fuel card for businesses. If you need any help or support, please contact our customer support team or refer to the fuel card comparison page.

Fuel cards are a simple and streamline way for businesses to pay for their fuel, which have several advantages for fleet management.

Fuel cards eliminate the need for cash or corporate credit cards when paying for fuel. A fuel card is used in the same way but comes with a weekly fixed price per litre, that is often cheaper than the varying costs between stations. This helps to spread the cost of business expenses in order to make weekly, monthly and annual cash flow more manageable.

As well as making cost savings, fuel cards also reduces administration within your business. Instead of having the stress of gathering hundreds of fuel receipts together, a fuel card will come with a single HMRC approved, VAT invoice.

Using fuel cards to manage travel expenses gives business fleets more flexibility for refuelling. This is because our fuel cards give access to a large network of fuel stations across the UK. Sometimes plans and routes change and the ability to use a fuel card across a wide network of stations gives your drivers the freedom to adjust their route in order to make the most effective use of their time on the road. Do you want to know exactly how many fuel stations accept UK fuel cards? Our fuel cards will give you access to a network of over 3,000 branded and non-branded stations across the UK.

So how do you know where a fuel card can be used? We have developed a free tool to help you find your nearest fuel station. Explore our Station Finder today. It is an incredibly useful tool for our customers, as it can be used as a sat nav when downloaded to a drivers phone. Drivers then simply add their route to the system and the nearest fuel stations on their route are highlighted.

A Fuel Card To Suit Your Business

The Fuel Store currently has two Fuel Cards available to our customers, which help to provide a fuel card that is tailored to their needs.

The Classic Card, is our credit option, where customers receive a weekly HMRC approved invoice, providing them with 14 days of credit. The Advantage Card is our no credit check fuel card option. It’s the ideal fuel card for new businesses and those with limited access to credit.

Both of our fuel cards come with your very own dedicated Account Manager who provides continued support, along with instant online access to your transactions and fuel reports with your very own online account.

Additional Services To Help Manage Your Fleet

Both of our fuel cards come with your very own dedicated Account Manager who provides continued support, along with instant online access to your transactions and fuel reports with your very own online account.

Our fuel cards both come with access to FraudGuard which helps to keep your account safe and secure, giving you peace of mind that you won’t be liable to absorb the cost of fraudulent activity should it ever happen. You will also be able to join the Clean Air Partnership which provides our customers with a way simple and measurable way to offset your carbon emissions.

Learn more and compare our Fuel Cards and fleet management services today.