News

More Commercial vehicles than ever before…

We’ve recently added two new commercial vendors to our Disposal Network platform. Bank View Hire and The Herd Group are now selling vehicles of all sizes including Lutons with tail lifts, low loaders, dropside flatbed trucks, tippers and crew cab variants. Click on vendor names to find out more. Bank View Hire Herd Hire

Epyx celebrates 100 millionth transaction

Celebrating our 100 millionth transaction

This month, we’ve passed a milestone that we believe takes some beating – the 100 millionth fleet transaction through epyx’s 1link Service Network, our service, maintenance and repair platform, was recorded today. 1link Service Network is now well known to almost everyone who is involved in fleet SMR but, when it was launched in 2000,…
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1link Disposal Network has hit the 3,000th trade buyer milestone

1link Disposal Network has hit the 3,000th trade buyer milestone

Probably the longest-established online source of trade stock in the UK, 1link Disposal Network will sell around 68,000 cars and vans to franchise dealers, independents and car supermarkets this year. Read more on our 1link Disposal Network website

October: Tyre Safety Month

Getting a grip on tyre safety

October is Tyre Safety Month – and therefore an ideal time to take a look at some of the basics of good tyre safety for any business that operates cars and vans. Tyres are perhaps not the most interesting subject in the world but ensuring they are properly managed is essential and part of your…
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Clean Air Zone

The arrival of Clean Air Zones could signal a significant rise in fleet Penalty Charge Notices

The arrival of Clean Air Zones across the UK could signal a significant rise in the numbers of Penalty Charge Notices generated by fleets. While the initial emissions standards enforced by most CAZs are not onerous, they are likely to spread and increase in the coming years, causing more PCNS to be issued. Tim Meadows,…
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Connected Vehicle

End-to-end digital used car and van processes are reaching thier tipping point

Vehicles being bought and sold purely online are starting to reach a tipping point during 2019. Read more here about what this means and how epyx and helping to manage this transformation.

1link Live

Getting everyone together to talk about 1link

Users of epyx’s 1link fleet platforms together operate more than four million company vehicles, so it is probably going to be impossible to ever get them all in the same room. However, we’ve just done what might be the next best thing in holding our first-ever 1link Live event, which brought more than 150 of…
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Electric-vehicle-charging

Finally, it looks as though the BEVs are coming

We have been promised for some time that BEVs – pure battery electric vehicles as opposed to electric hybrids – will soon be making big inroads into fleets. Yet it hasn’t quite transpired so far. However, the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders reported that BEV sales in July tripled year-on-year. The actual numbers remain…
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Brake pad particulates

1link Service Network is ideally placed to help measure fleet brake pad particulates

Our 1link Service Network platform, that is used to manage four million company vehicles contains almost certainly unparalleled amounts of data about fleet brake pad wear and replacement for cars and vans in the UK. Last month, the Government’s Air Quality Expert Group issued a report urging the fleet industry to start addressing the issue…
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1Link: Vehicle management

How to manage journey risks at work

Our two posts on Duty of Care have so far covered the vehicle and the driver. Here, we are going to look at the third and final factor you need to consider – the journey. The underlying principle here is that risk needs to be managed surrounding the demands being placed on the driver on the road.