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DAILY RENTAL: Rental flexibility key for fleet
Date: 12 December 2013 | Author: Jack Carfrae
Fleet on Demand
Hitachi Capital has also adopted a new rental system from Fleet on Demand, a company launched last year specialising in fleet management and rental software. The system, which became operational last month, is said to "speed up the rental process" by allowing users to book vehicles online, around the clock and from 200 independent rental companies. It also allows fleet operators to download reports detailing what vehicles staff have borrowed, when, for what purpose and details the costs.
The firm's equally new head of rentals, Kathleen Whittam, tells BusinessCar: "[Hitachi] has grown through acquisitions and recently took on a portfolio of clients in the SME market from the [now defunct] Lombard business. A number of customers want a one-stop shop for everything they need from vehicles, so we're trying to minimise downtime for the customer as much as possible.
"Overall [the system] will help us from a rental perspective, but it will also help our clients. They can book what they want when they want. You can see what the costs and efficiencies are, fuelling, P11D, CO2, etc.
"The [rental] companies we use have newish vehicles, which helps with fuel and CO2, but also with duty of care. That's so important now. Rental will only ever grow in demand for all of these reasons."
