new book on best practice in fleet management.
keyboard and start typing; I’d have to get out there and talk to
some subject-matter experts about what they were doing. Best
practice is certainly out there but I would have to go out and look
for it.
I made a list of the people I wanted to talk to.
The list was remarkably long. I certainly needed to talk to
contract hire companies, accountants and so on but I also wanted to
talk to some fleet managers. Some are doing great things but too
often their stories don’t get heard. I realised that if I was going
to do this project justice I would have to talk to an awful lot of
people first.
One of the more interesting aspects of a recession
is that everybody seems to be incredibly busy; it seems we are all
having to harder to achieve things that – in retrospect – were a
little bit easier to achieve a year ago. This applies to me too. I
didn’t think my consultancy clients would be happy if I told them I
needed to take eight weeks off to research and write a book.
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So, whilst I was really keen to research best
practice, I realised I didn’t have the time to do the project
justice. And at that point, the penny dropped. I wondered if it
would be possible to persuade a group of experts to write a chapter
each on their area of expertise. I tentatively started approaching
fleet experts and, to my amazement and delight, they said yes.
I set out the ground rules from the start. I wanted
it to be a serious book, giving best practice advice to fleet
managers and containing real insights that fleet managers would
find valuable. I would ask each contributor the sort of questions I
thought fleet managers would want to ask and they would provide the
answers. This ‘interview’ would become their chapter.
I approached highly-experienced professionals and
organisations – the sort of people I would approach if I wanted
expert advice on a fleet issue. The responses have delighted me. 44
people have contributed chapters of between 5 and 20 pages; the
book will be 600 pages, 250,000 words.
The inspiring thing is that it shows how much
innovation is going on right now in every area; leasing, short-term
leasing, daily hire, cost and emission reduction, managing the grey
fleet, fleet policy, tyres, glass, fast fits, telematics, roadside
assistance, remarketing, ECOs, cash for car, salary sacrifice, tax,
NI, fuel and fuel cards, credit hire, setting RVs and maintenance
budgets, international leasing and fleet management and much
more.
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By GlobalDataIt seems that throughout the fleet world there are
people who are continuing to innovate, who know there will be
winners and losers from this recession and who are committed to
being amongst the winners. It’s not all doom and gloom out
there.
Professor Colin Tourick, fleet management
consultant, www.tourick.com
