Vehicle Management

Meet The Team

Dedicated team of Vehicle Management Experts

Our specialist vehicle management team is led by Chris Leslie who has over 30 years of experience in the automotive industry. Chris has headed up our vehicle management team for the past 3 years.

The vehicle management team can help with any financial needs that a range of businesses might have. This includes fleets of vehicles, accident management and bespoke business vehicles.

What is Vehicle Management?

Our Vehicle Management Programme and our expertise and customer care allows us to build and deliver tailored solutions to help operators mitigate risk, reduce cost and improve operational efficiencies.

The vehicle management team provides services to all sized businesses across the UK ranging – from major corporate businesses with complex requirements down to sub-20 fleets of cars, vans, commercial vehicles, trailers or bespoke vehicles.

Some of the vehicle management services available

We offer a range of vehicle management solutions, including:

Accident Management: When an accident occurs, our incident team will manage every part of the repair process on your behalf, from First Notification of Loss (FNOL) and vehicle recovery to vehicle repair and risk management.

Fleet Management: Regardless of the size of your business, a fleet of vehicles is imperative to business efficiency. But operating fleets – as well as sourcing the vehicles themselves – can be a time-consuming task.

Fuel Management: By managing your fleet’s fuel cost, you will be able to save money and streamline processes for both business and driver. Using fuel cards is an alternative way to claiming back costs, improving efficiency and VAT recovery – with no need to keep receipts or manually log transactions.

Risk Management: Our vehicle risk management programme promotes a safety-first culture for all drivers and helps you and your drivers meet regulations when travelling for business purposes. Using our robust driver assessment and training programme will help you monitor driver behaviour and driving style by highlighting real-time events.

Telematics and cameras:  We provide clients with a range of data telematics and camera solutions for all vehicles and fleets. Our data capture, analysis and information delivery will support you in reduction of costs, increased operational efficiency and increased driver safety and wellbeing.

How does vehicle management work?

We work with you and the lender of choice to determine the required loan amount, with the lender specifying the terms and conditions. Following your acceptance of the terms and conditions, you will get the full amount and typically make monthly repayments with interest for the specified period of time.

It is vital we take time to fully understand the needs of larger complex fleets so that we can ensure we support your objectives to improve every area of efficiency to keep your fleet running effectively.

Meeting you is key to assessing what solutions we can deliver and our dedicated specialists and support team will ensure we deliver the very best service so that we are saving you time, money and resource.

Why your business might use vehicle management

Fleet management: Regardless of the size of your business, a fleet of vehicles, be it vans, cars or trucks is imperative to business efficiency.

Operating vehicle fleets, as well as sourcing new vehicles can be a time-consuming task. There’s the day-to-day maintenance to think about, the drivers’ training regimes and any accident or repair work required.

Our vehicle management division can help with all of this, including the disposal or remarketing of your old vehicles if you need to.

Vehicle rental: Partnering with the best in the industry, our rental service means we can provide cars, and commercial and specialist vehicles for short-term hire, including HGVs.

Through our online systems, you can book vehicles, extend agreements and review your business requirements – from billing data and real-time MI to customer service, fines and damage management.

By simply entering your requirements, our system will scour the supplier network to bring you the best rental solutions. New bookings can be made in less than 60 seconds, with repeat bookings available in the same time. We also have the UK’s largest supply network of over 2,000 depots and 550,000 vehicles to choose from.

Vehicle acquisition and sourcing: Our vehicle management division specialises in vehicle acquisition, so we can help source your business vehicles, whether it’s a small fleet of 1-25 vehicles or large fleets in the thousands. If you already have a fleet that’s coming to the end of its term, we can also help with the disposal or remarketing of the vehicles.

Maintenance management: Keeping your vehicles well-maintained will improve your fleet’s overall efficiency and effectiveness, helping reduce downtime and saving time and money for your business.

Our specialist vehicle management team will ensure that your maintenance standards are high, costs are controlled and administration tasks are completed to remain legally compliant.

This maintenance management solution is designed to provide you with a comprehensive backup for all of your fleets’ in-life services, maintenance and repair requirements.

How long does it take to secure fleet funding?

Fleet funding often varies and depends on the business and type of finance required. Typically, it can take anywhere from a couple of weeks to months to get finance in place. Finance applicants for fleet funding should have all their accounts in order and available for inspection, just like with any other type of business funding. Bank statements, the last three to five years’ worth of certified accounts, business plans, and specifics on assets and liabilities can all be required.

Applying for vehicle management

MAF Finance Group can compare finance offerings from a wide panel of lenders to find the best option for you.

If you would like to get a quote or need further information, simply fill in the form and we will contact you. If you want to speak to someone directly, you can call us on 0115 958 6872 and a member of our team will be happy to speak to you. Alternatively, email us at [email protected].