NEW JAAMA FLEET SEMINARS HELP OPERATORS CUT COSTS AND FOCUS ON MANAGEMENT ESSENTIALS
Due to an overwhelming demand, four more of Jaama’s popular one-day Fleet Management Essentials seminars have been scheduled for October 2012. Significantly updated this year, the seminars reflect best practice in a number of key areas including grey fleet management, car salary sacrifice schemes and employee driving licence checking.
The seminars, hosted by the fleet management software and occupational road safety specialist, have proved extremely popular over the years with a wide cross-section of full-time professional fleet decision-makers as well as administrators and managers who have the responsibility but not necessarily the experience or specialist knowledge of running a fleet of vehicles.
EMPLOYERS MUST IMPLEMENT TOUGHER SAFE DRIVING POLICIES TO PUT THE BRAKE ON YOUNG DRIVER CRASHES
Employers that allow young people to drive on work-related journeys must implement tougher policies and procedures than those typically associated with older drivers to help cut crashes involving motorists aged under 25 years old.
Fleet software and risk management specialist Jaama, which includes an industry-leading Electronic Driver Services (EDS) module within its product portfolio that delivers a driver and vehicle audit trail and embraces an online driver licence check with the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency database, says organisations should:
JAAMA LAUNCHES UPGRADE TO ELECTRONIC DRIVER SERVICES MODULE TO EASE FLEET OPERATOR ADMINISTRATION
Jaama has significantly enhanced its Electronic Driver Services (EDS) module to further improve driver communication and reduce the administrative burden.
The improvements that Jaama has made to the EDS module have been driven by valuable feedback from their customer base.
EDS is designed to put the emphasis on company cars drivers and employees who use their own cars for business to keep the data pertaining to both them personally and their vehicles up to date.
JAAMA BOOSTS IT CLIENT SUPPORT TEAM AS SALES CONTINUE TO RISE
Leading fleet, leasing and rental management software supplier Jaama has appointed Mark Welch to expand its customer services team.
Mr Welch, who is a Microsoft Certified Professional and has a degree in computer science, joins the business after seven years of service at CFC Solutions. His career history also includes a spell at vehicle leasing company Lex Autolease and in Madrid as a customer services representative for telecommunications company Alcatel.
FLEET EMISSIONS’ AUDIT TRAIL ESSENTIAL FOR COMPANIES TO MEET NEW GREENHOUSE GAS REPORTING REGULATION
Recording fuel use, vehicle mileage and journey distances is becoming compulsory following the Government’s decision to introduce mandatory greenhouse gas emission reporting for publicly quoted companies from next April, according to fleet software company Jaama.
Approximately 1,800 companies listed on the London Stock Exchange will be subject to the new regulation, which could be extended to all large companies – a potential 31,000 businesses – from April 2016.
Greenhouse gas reporting includes emissions from vehicles ‘owned or controlled’ by companies including cars, vans and HGVs.
JAAMA ENHANCES P11D DATA VALIDATION WITHIN ITS KEY2 SYSTEM
Jaama has made further improvements to the benefit-in-kind reporting capability of its industry-leading Key2 Vehicle Management system which now provides employees’ with the ability to ‘pre-validate’ their annual P11D declaration.
The service pack update is welcomed by Jaama customers who could face a maximum penalty of £3,000 for each incorrect P11D submission and is especially important in light of HM Revenue and Customs recent announcement that thousands of employee tax codes could be incorrect.
FLEET SOFTWARE LEADER PARTNERS WITH VAN EXCELLENCE CAMPAIGN TO PROMOTE BEST PRACTICE
Leading fleet, leasing and rental management software supplier Jaama has become one of the first organisation’s to partner the Freight Transport Association’s Van Excellence scheme.
Jaama’s Key2 Vehicle Management system is being used by a number of light commercial vehicle fleet operators that have already joined the Van Excellence programme.
Van Excellence is an industry-led initiative to raise standards and improve the image of the UK’s growing van sector and includes a tough accreditation system and a strict code of practice, and is backed by many household names.
JAAMA PUTS SAFETY FIRST WITH FREE DRIVER LICENCE CHECKS
JAAMA BOOSTS IT CLIENT IMPLEMENTATION TEAM AS SALES CONTINUE TO RISE
Leading fleet, leasing and rental management software supplier Jaama has expanded its implementation team with the appointment of Tom Mansbridge.
Mr Mansbridge joins Jaama as a project consultant after spending four years as IT manager with commercial vehicle leasing, fleet and accident management specialist Prohire.
During Mr Mansbridge’s time at Prohire, he led the development of their IT systems with the objective of improving business processes and enabling staff to work more efficiently. Prohire introduced Jaama’s award-winning Key2 system last year as their business solution.