About Leasedrive Velo
Welcome to Leasedrive Velo’s Blog Site.
Leasedrive Velo is one of the largest privately owned vehicle management providers in the UK offering a range of high quality, multi-award winning bespoke fleet management services.
Leasedrive Velo operates two divisions, Leasedrive Velo Vehicle Management and Leasedrive Velo Rental Management.
Leasedrive Velo Vehicle Management
Leasedrive Velo Vehicle Management works in partnership with clients to reduce their costs, minimise their carbon footprint, improve their duty of care and enhance the overall efficiency of managing their vehicle fleet and associated costs.
Leasedrive Velo’s range of multi-award winning high quality, bespoke services includes fleet management; contract hire; contract purchase; finance lease; hire purchase; personal contract purchase and sale and leaseback.
Leasedrive Velo Rental Management
Leasedrive Velo Rental Management is one of the largest short-term vehicle rental management companies in the corporate market with access to 132,783 vehicles from 924 locations in the UK, including airports.
A simple and transparent pricing policy with no hidden surcharges ensures that rates are constant throughout the country and customers also benefit from special all-inclusive pricing including free delivery and collection. For rentals of 28 days or more, it offers the Stopgap mid-term vehicle rental solution.
The History
Leasedrive was established in 1983 and Velo in 1988. The two companies merged at the start of 2007 to form one of the largest independent privately-owned vehicle management groups in the UK. In 2008 Leasedrive Velo Group was involved in a senior management buy-out in a deal valued at £80m backed by private equity house Lloyds Development Capital (LDC).
Leasedrive Velo is a member of the British Vehicle Rental and Leasing Association, the Association of Car Fleet Operators and the European Fleet Alliance. Commercial director Roddy Graham is also chairman for the Institute of Car Fleet Management and a member of the All Party Parliamentary Climate Change Group.
The People
Managing Director David Bird, formerly Chief Financial Officer at Leasedrive Velo, previously held the position of Chief Operating Officer of Shell Auto Finance and ARVAL PHH. Commercial Director is Roddy Graham, formerly Managing Director of Budget Rent a Car UK and Sales Director of Highway Vehicle Management. Financial Director is Robert Whitrow, former BT Fleet finance and commercial director.
The board is supported by one of the most experienced senior management teams in the industry. The quality of people at the top is representative of those employed throughout Leasedrive Velo.
The Leasedrive Velo System
At the heart of Leasedrive Velo is ALFA, an industry leading asset finance and management system. The system has been developed by CHP Consulting and provides a robust finance and billing platform, along with integrated workflow management capability. The ALFA system is complimented by a web-based front end, developed by epyx and providing integrated vehicle procurement, ordering, policy management, service, maintenance and repair, plus records management.
Detailed interactive management reporting is available for Leasedrive Velo’s own systems and its strategic partners via Drive:Manager™. This provides fleet managers with a desktop tool to assist them in the running of their fleet and drivers with the ability to compare and order vehicles, progress orders and book routine services.
The online total fleet management Drive:Manager™ system is password protected and is available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. It is widely acknowledged as the industry leading system, developed with input from fleet professionals for use by professional people.
The Leasedrive Velo Vision
We will continually strive to deliver the highest quality bespoke vehicle management service and demonstrably deliver savings and efficiencies to our clients through investment in people, world-class fleet management systems and totally-integrated innovative solutions.
Multi-Award Winning Services
Leasedrive Velo has won a number of prestigious industry awards over recent years for service delivery, management and technology innovations including:
Energy Saving Trust Fleet Hero Awards 2009
Innovation in Services & Systems
BusinessCar Techies Awards 2009
Best Daily Rental Website
Thames Valley Business Magazine Awards 2008
Management Team of the Year
ITM Awards 2007
Independent Vehicle Management Company
Thames Valley Business Magazine Awards 2007
Management Team of the Year
Fleet News Awards 2006
Best Contract Hire/Fleet Management Company
Green Fleet Awards 2006
Leasing/Rental Company of the Year
ITM Awards 2006
Fleet Management Company
Thames Valley Business Magazine Awards 2006
Management Team of the Year
Microsoft Vendor Programme Awards 2005
Technology Excellence Award
