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New deal brings CHOX to wider market
- 10/03/2016
- Posted by: Alan Feldberg
- Category: News
Solera Holding subsidiary Valexa Technologies has chosen Keoghs to manage its Credit Hire Organisation Exchange (CHOX) on behalf of customers. CHOX, which is operational in four of the top 10 UK insurers, eliminates the traditional paper driven process to deliver data certainty and transparency and, claims Valexa, [...] -
Knight’s new dawn at Bollington
- 10/03/2016
- Posted by: Alan Feldberg
- Category: News
Jim Knight has been appointed Motor Trade Account Manager for Bollington Insurance. Based in Luton, Bedfordshire, Knight will help Bollington to increase its motor trade insurance market share in the South East of England. With a family background in the motor, Knight has a natural affinity with the sector and [...] -
IPT rise flies ‘in the face of Road Safety vision’
- 10/03/2016
- Posted by: Alan Feldberg
- Category: News
Chancellor George Osborne has been urged to remove IPT for Usage Based Insurance in his Spring Budget. Paul Stacy, founding director of Wunelli, a LexisNexis company said, ‘The IPT increase implemented in November 2015 was the Chancellor’s biggest revenue raiser in last year’s Summer Budget and there are [...] -
Pothole definition changed in money-saving move
- 10/03/2016
- Posted by: Alan Feldberg
- Category: News
A council in Scotland has redefined the depth of potholes to avoid fixing as many. Instead of the previously stated 40mm, the Perth and Kinross Council now says potholes have to be 60mm in depth before it will consider repairing them. It hopes this move will save it £120,000. However, the RAC does not [...] -
Head of VW in America leaves company
- 10/03/2016
- Posted by: Alan Feldberg
- Category: News
The president and chief executive officer of Volkswagen of America has left the company immediately 'through mutual consent'. Michael Horn's departure comes six months after the emissions scandal erupted, which affects 600,000 vehicles in the US and up to 11m worldwide. The statement made no mention of the scandal, [...] -
Paints industry boosted by dedicated degree
- 09/03/2016
- Posted by: Simon Wait
- Category: News
The paints and coatings industry in Europe has been given a boost with the launch of its first dedicated chemical engineering master’s degree programme. Backed by PPG and the ITECH Engineering School in Lyon, the European Council for Paints, Printing Inks and Artists’ Colours Industry (CEPE) has introduced the [...] -
Calling all transport execs
- 09/03/2016
- Posted by: Simon Wait
- Category: News
An online recruitment platform has revealed a huge shortfall in non-executive directors from the transport sector. NonExecutiveDirectors.com has 6,000 names on its database but has revealed that just one per cent of those are from the transport industry, despite there being no shortage of skills in the [...] -
Birmingham crash for cash gang sentenced
- 09/03/2016
- Posted by: Simon Wait
- Category: News
A crash for cash gang from Birmingham that staged an accident in order to make over £30k in insurance claims has been sentenced at the Old Bailey. The group was sentenced to a total of 37 months’ imprisonment (suspended for two years), ordered to pay £10,800 in compensation and costs and ordered to carry out [...] -
Pro-Align sets sights on Dublin
- 09/03/2016
- Posted by: Simon Wait
- Category: News
Wheel alignment specialists, Pro-Align is set to open a new facility in Dublin, Ireland. The new premises will provide demonstration and training facilities, enabling workshops to see, as well as experience the capabilities of the Hunter range of wheel servicing equipment first hand, in the full alignment bay and [...] -
Used buyers shy away from hybrids
- 09/03/2016
- Posted by: Simon Wait
- Category: News
The new range of plug-in petrol hybrids are going to take some time - if ever - to establish themselves as the ‘third fuel choice’ in the used sector, according to Glass’s. Glass's suggests that the popularity of petrol hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) while new is being driven almost entirely by company car [...]