Downsizing – saving on fuel and helping in terms of eco-friendliness – is a current trend in car fleets. But there are other consequences of the economic crisis, reports Fleet Logistics, in terms of changes in company car policies. This is being seen in two areas. Firstly, company cars are beginning to be allocated not as an automatic perk of a certain job level, but in accordance with a certain level of business mileage. Secondly, the classic user-chooser model is fast disappearing, except in some high margin sectors such as consultancy and investment banking. Fleet logistics European Strategic Consulting Manager, explains that companies can choose from ‘soft’ measures such as driver behaviour and car care, to ‘hard’ measures such as centrally imposed car choice and no private mileage. In this same drive towards cost cutting, companies are also tending to extend contracts up to 60 months.

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