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If you're dealing with fleet cars
A company car has nobody who treats it as their own, and it shows sooner than on a private one. What a regular rhythm does about that.
Fleet cars
The Car You Make Your Living With
A van sits outside the workshop on Friday evening and has to be back on the road by Monday morning. Walk around it and you see the same thing on every work vehicle: sills scuffed by footwear and crates, a worn strip along the boot edge where cargo gets dragged over it, door handles dulled by keys and rings, a bonnet pitted with fine gravel marks. Nobody notices any of it while driving. The customer you pull up to notices. So does whoever buys the car a few years from now.
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Fleet cars
Is Looking After Company Cars Worth It
A company is already paying to have its vehicles washed, it just doesn’t have it as one line: one car goes through the wash at a petrol station, another gets washed by the driver, the next comes in for an interior clean only once the cabin is unbearable. Nobody puts that sum back together at the end of the year. A fleet programme takes the question from the other side: the price is per visit, and work on one fleet goes faster because the vehicles are washed one after another.
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Fleet cars
Company Cars Age Faster
The bird droppings on the rear pillar dried sometime during the week, and the smeared insect on the bonnet has been there since Monday. Mud on the sill from a site visit, a coffee cup in the holder. Nothing is wrong with the car, it runs, and on Monday it's out again — it just looks older than the work it has done. The driver didn't choose the car and won't be selling it, so nobody has reason to notice what the paint and the interior are doing in between.
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Fleet cars
The car with no driver of its own
One week the keys to this vehicle are with one person, the next week with somebody else. Whoever gets in reaches for the seat first, because it has been pushed to a different position, and then notices the rest: a dried ring in the cup holder, a stranger’s receipt in the door pocket, a steering wheel shinier in two places than anywhere else. None of it is a fault and nobody caused it. But none of them received the car clean, so nobody has anything to put back the way it was.
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Fleet cars
A vehicle going back off lease
There is a handover date in the calendar, and a few weeks left until then. The car is dusty outside, there is mud in the sill and leftovers from materials in the boot — it looks like a job for a wash. But standing at that date is someone with a checklist in hand, looking for exactly what a wash cannot remove: scuffed sill trim, a worn boot edge, paint around the handles. And those things only surface once the car is clean. The pre-handover prep is therefore one-off work, offered on its own.
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