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The number of in-house fleet managers fell sharply during the last year, according to the 'Alphabet Fleet Management Report' (AFMR) 2012.
In the AFMR 2011, 66% of fleets were run by a fleet manager but in 2012 the number had plummeted to just 37%.
The reduction was greater in the private sector where just 27% of operators had an in-house fleet manager in 2012 compared with 63% the previous year.
In the public sector, 67% of organisations retained a fleet manager - down 10% from 2011.
Alphabet said the fleet management role had increasingly migrated to procurement, finance and, in particular, operations departments. It added that HR departments were becoming less involved in fleet management decision-making - their presence in the process falling by more than half to 4% in 2012.
Alphabet said more than twice as many fleets outsourced fleet management last year as in 2011, with 40% of these citing cost-cutting as the main reason for this.
But Alphabet's sales and marketing manager Paul Hollick claimed the decline in the number of fleet managers on the payroll did not signal a fall in the need for vehicle and driver management.
"The new modus operandi for fleet management today is to outsource the nitty-gritty of fleet operations while decision-making on key elements stays in-house," he said.
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