Fleet Management Solutions
Northgate provides comprehensive fleet management catered to meet the unique needs and services of your business and support you the whole way.
Fleet management controls fleet performance, fleet maintenance and all the factors within a fleet operation to increase productivity, cash flow, and business efficiencies. Our fleet management expertise helps you reduce costs, minimise vehicle downtime and free up time so that you can concentrate on your core business.
Fleet management is essential to ensure any company that operates fleet vehicles can run and monitor them seamlessly. Managing all of these responsibilities can become overwhelming and hard to track very quickly, therefore, choosing a fleet management company with effective fleet solutions is key to optimise fleet operations, collect data on your vehicles and ensure compliance throughout.
Northgate will support you in the following to ensure your business is running smoothly, cost-effectively and efficiently:
- Choosing the right vehicle for you
- Running expert safety courses
- Supplying vehicle maintenance
- Providing detailed telematics systems
What is fleet management and why is it important?
Fleet management is the continuous process of overseeing, monitoring and coordinating a company’s vehicle fleet to ensure cost savings, minimal downtime and maximum efficiency.
Fleet management is essential for improving business efficiencies, protecting your vehicles and drivers, improving brand reputation and increasing profitability.
The responsibilities of fleet management
Vehicle acquisition- Vehicle maintenance
- Fuel management
- Driver safety
- Regulatory compliance
What are the benefits of Northgate's Fleet Management Solutions?
Northgate will support your business with expert fleet management to ensure your business continues to run smoothly and efficiently. Our services cover every aspect of fleet operations, including vehicle hire, maintenance, compliance and driver safety. Here’s how Northgate can help:
Fleet management services
Northgate’s fleet management solutions handle all administrative tasks, from servicing and maintenance to daily operations of YourFleet (non-Northgate vehicles), allowing you to focus on your core business.
- Northgate’s flexible account-managed, fleet management solutions take away the burden of administration.
- Whatever you need for YourFleet (non-Northgate vehicles), whether it’s as straightforward as the service or maintenance of your existing vehicles to the more complex challenges of running YourFleet day-to-day.
- Our expertise helps you reduce cost, improve driver safety and free-up time, so you can concentrate on your core business.
Safe Driver course
Northgate provides a Safe Driver online course with our experts to provide fleet managers and drivers with all the tools and information they need to be safe and responsible on the road.
- Northgate’s Safe Driver offers expert online courses to both drivers and Fleet Managers about how to reduce the risks of being out and about on the road.
- In addition, a range of compliance checks are available including Driving Licence and Grey Fleet Checks and identify where you can reduce costs with driver and fleet audits.
Accident management
When one of your fleet drivers is involved in an accident, Northgate will support your company the whole way to ensure your company is covered, the vehicle is repaired as soon as possible and your business services are not interrupted.
- We take care of everything your business needs after a road incident.
- Let us deal with incidents across your fleet, from First Notification of Loss through insurance and repair, using a single phone number.
- Our highly skilled and experienced teams are available 24/7 all 365 days of the year at our UK-based service centre to provide all the support your drivers need.
Telematics
Northgate supplies a detailed telematics control system to provide companies and fleet managers with data for all the vehicles and assets in their fleet. Through telematics systems and customisable dashboards, companies can optimise their on-road performance and make data-led informed business decisions.
- With Northgate Telematics reporting and tracking tools, fleet managers can identify speeding and idling events which can reduce average speeds and, in turn, the amount of fuel consumed.
- With Add-ons such as cameras, Driver ID and Fuel Card Integration, you can save time and money for your fleet.
Fleet vehicle hire
With over 80+ types of vans, cars and micromobility options to choose from and a range of hire packages, Northgate can help your company make the right fleet vehicle hire decisions that fit your business.
- Vehicle Hire Offering not just a white van (although that’s an option if you want), we also have utility and specialist vehicles for hire.
- You specify your needs and we can provide them. Whether you need to flex your fleet up and down, or are looking for a minimum term solution (or a combination of both), we have the vehicle and hire product for you.
Fuel Cards
Northgate offers fuel card solutions to allow for tracking of spend, monitoring of usage and easier handling of expenses. We provide two options with the Esso Card™ fuel card and the AllStar One fuel card.
- Esso Card™ fuel card: Get money off the pump price, saving an average 7p off per litre at Esso petrol stations.
- AllStar One fuel card: Provides access to 90% of the UK’s fuel sites, including all major oil brands and supermarket sites.
We Buy, You Rent
Northgate will inspect and buy your fleet of ageing vehicles for a fair market value, allowing your fleet to hire new replacement vehicles to ensure your business keeps running smoothly and optimally.
- A hassle-free way to sell your vehicles and rent new ones. You’ll get a fair market price for your existing vehicles and we can even settle outstanding finance.
Vehicle inspection app
For easier monitoring of vehicle inspections, we provide the Northgate Vehicle Inspection App which allows for the easy creation of inspection reports to ensure your vehicles are always being checked for faults or issues.
- Our mobile app allows drivers to complete inspections in a matter of minutes and submit the results in real-time.
- Combined with the option to submit photos of the vehicle and any damage, the app supports you and your drivers in being more compliant and safe.
How Northgate can support with fleet management
Workshops
We'll arrange service bookings on your behalf, utilising one of our 4,000 Northgate approved workshops. Identifying mechanical faults or manufacturer recalls through to managing any mechanical repairs where required.Communication
Communicating directly with drivers to confirm event bookings such as services, MOTs, and inspections. Plus, if your vehicle is referred to one of our approved workshops for any planned/unplanned maintenance, we’ll keep the driver fully up to date on progress and notify them when the vehicle is ready for collection.Assurance
Our maintenance team will carry out thorough assessments of any work completed by our approved suppliers (including labour & parts), to ensure costs are correct and justified.Support
Taking care of any administrative tasks including driver information by cost centre, managing fleet documentation, DVLA updates and maintenance history. We’ll also log mileage information from various sources including Telematics, fuel usage reports and vehicle inspections to ensure servicing is carried out at the correct service intervals.
Fleet compliance
Ensuring your business remains compliant to regulations, your drivers are safe and driving responsibly and your fleet vehicles are correctly maintained and checked are crucial components for seamless fleet management.
Northgate streamlines these challenges by providing expert services, business support and training to ensure risks are minimised, your business’ reputation is protected, unnecessary costs are saved and your company continues to roll smoothly.
Learn more about fleet management
For further information and insights on fleet management, visit our blog section. We offer expert advice, industry updates and detailed articles to help you optimise your fleet operations and always be ahead of the curve.
