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BARLOWORLD Handling Limited, the UK’s largest distributor of lift trucks, has awarded Alphabet a third successive contract to supply and manage its 650-strong fleet of vans and cars.
The renewed contract, which follows a 10-way re-tendering process, will see the supply partnership between the two companies through to its 10th anniversary in 2014.
Alphabet supplies Barloworld Handling with vehicles on full-maintenance contract hire as well as accident management, AlphaRent short term hire, AlphaRisk driver licence checking, and mileage expense management.
Alan Thackray, vehicle contract and facility manager at Barloworld, said: ‘We are very pleased to renew our agreement with Alphabet. The tender process demonstrated to us that they offered the best mix of services and continuous improvement to match our needs and to go on delivering long term value. Whether it is driver contact, account management or working with us to solve the issues we encounter as a fleet, we know we can count on Alphabet to deliver on their promises.
‘At the moment we are setting our fleet strategy for the next few years and we feel that Alphabet is doing more than others in this area. Their strategic consulting team under Nigel Trotman works with us to move the fleet forward and identify areas for greater efficiency, often in areas that we had not looked at before.’
Among the changes introduced by Barloworld in conjunction with Alphabet during the last seven years was a move from choice lists based on rental costs to lists based on whole life costs. The policy has helped Barloworld reduce its fleet’s average emissions from 160 g/km a few years ago to 136 g/km today.
The renewed contract, which follows a 10-way re-tendering process, will see the supply partnership between the two companies through to its 10th anniversary in 2014.
Alphabet supplies Barloworld Handling with vehicles on full-maintenance contract hire as well as accident management, AlphaRent short term hire, AlphaRisk driver licence checking, and mileage expense management.
Alan Thackray, vehicle contract and facility manager at Barloworld, said: ‘We are very pleased to renew our agreement with Alphabet. The tender process demonstrated to us that they offered the best mix of services and continuous improvement to match our needs and to go on delivering long term value. Whether it is driver contact, account management or working with us to solve the issues we encounter as a fleet, we know we can count on Alphabet to deliver on their promises.
‘At the moment we are setting our fleet strategy for the next few years and we feel that Alphabet is doing more than others in this area. Their strategic consulting team under Nigel Trotman works with us to move the fleet forward and identify areas for greater efficiency, often in areas that we had not looked at before.’
Among the changes introduced by Barloworld in conjunction with Alphabet during the last seven years was a move from choice lists based on rental costs to lists based on whole life costs. The policy has helped Barloworld reduce its fleet’s average emissions from 160 g/km a few years ago to 136 g/km today.