Nine easy steps to company car
management

Colin Tourick has published a concise guide to managing company
cars. This is to augment his 520-page Managing Your Company
Cars
textbook, now in its second edition and on sale in some
26 countries worldwide.

Managing Your Company Cars in Nine Easy Steps
is only 120 pages long but manages to condense a vast amount of
information for fleet managers whom Tourick acknowledges to be
“busy people”.
Tourick ignores some topics that might be hitting company car
headlines at the present time but which may not be relevant in a
few years time. Tax incentives to encourage biofuels, for example,
are omitted as are the ever shifting rules on company car tax since
at present they are altering, at the margin, with each new Budget.
Nevertheless, the crucial points of calculation are addressed
including income tax, national insurance and approved mileage
allowance rates.

The book takes fleet managers through the gamut of deciding
fleet policy, selecting the right financial product, negotiating
the lease wisely and choosing the right services. The next steps
include understanding cash allowances, operating the fleet
effectively and managing residual value and maintenance risks.
Fleet managers are then reminded about Health and Safety
obligations and adroit administration.

Tourick’s habit of addressing the reader as “you” in the text
rather than “the fleet manager”, “the borrower” or “the lessee” can
seem rather off-putting at first – but overall I agree with the
author that it does make the book somehow more engaging to
read.

An excellent book which will provide a novice fleet manager who
has been tasked with switching his company’s car policy to a
company car scheme with all the tools he needs – and also an
invaluable aide memoire for the experienced but time-poor fleet
executive.

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Managing Your Company Cars in Nine Easy Steps by Colin
Tourick in association with Daimler Fleet Management. Cost £15.
Purchase online at
www.tourick.com.

Motor Finance Issue: 43 – May 08
by
Brian Rogerson , Deputy Editor
Published for the web: May 27 08 12:36
Last Updated: May 27 08 12:43