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Corporates Invited To Consider A Mixed Fleet

As the need to make car fleets run as cost-effectively as possible becomes more important and complex, Toomey Opticar Limited is delighted to announce the official launch of its revolutionary Optifleet system, which is now fully available across the UK.

The Optifleet application has been designed to offer a mixed fleet solution by assigning employees to the least-cost option – company car or employee-owned car – based on the specific individual mileage profile. 
Completely “hands free”, with no company involvement, the system manages every aspect of a driver’s experience, including car selection, online mileage logging, occupational road risk controls, maintenance, insurances and accident management.

Jim Salkeld, managing director of Toomey Opticar comments: “It is commonplace for fleet managers to assess their fleet as a whole and decide between either company cars or an employee car ownership scheme.

“However, neither option individually will provide a truly tax-efficient solution as the driver mileage profiles within the fleet can be so varied. While the best option is to adopt a mixed fleet strategy (that is, both company car and employee car ownership (ECO) scheme), so that each driver can be offered the most tax and cost-efficient vehicle choice based on business mileage, the administrative burden that comes with managing it in-house is often the reason not to.

“Optifleet resolves all these problems while also achieving savings for the company by using the authorised mileage allowance payments (AMAP) as a major component in the net monthly compensation to employees.
”The flexibility offered to the driver is also enhanced.  In many organisations the choice of company car is restricted for reasons of cost or hierarchical structure. With Optifleet employees can chose whatever car most suits their lifestyle and pocket.”

Toomey Opticar Limited is a wholly owned subsidiary of Laindon Holdings Limited, and a member of the Toomey Group. 

For more information contact Opticar on 01582 518181.