Business North March 2022

FleetPartners keeps NZ business moving Keeping kiwi businesses on the move, FleetPartners is New Zealand’s leading vehicle leasing and leet management company. “We ultimately help businesses be more successful by providing funding, expertise and management of their vehicle leets,” says Melanie McHardy, Team Leader Business Direct. FleetPartners provides vehicles for businesses mainly through its operating lease products. Through FleetPartners, a business can lease any vehicle type from cars and SUVs to utes, vans and commercial trucks. “We also provide vehicle management services including scheduled servicing, maintenance, roadside assistance and other add-on services such as discounted fuel cards, accident management, telematics, vehicle branding, infringement and toll management, amongst others.” With its heritage going back to 1978 and previously known as Avis Lease, FleetPartners has over 3,000 customers and over 25,000 vehicles leased and managed on the road. With four o ices in Auckland (head o ice), Hamilton, Wellington and Christchurch, FleetPartners has the widest regional o ice coverage of any leet company in New Zealand. “Our ratio of Relationship Managers and support sta to clients is the highest in the New Zealand leet industry,” explains Melanie. “We help companies of all sizes access the vehicles they need to operate their business whether that’s a one-man band or a large corporate. We are trusted by many of New Zealand’s largest and most recognised corporates and government entities such as NZ Post, Northland District Health Board, Ravensdown, and Mainfreight, to name a few. We don’t just help the biggest businesses, we take pride in helping any sized business access the vehicles they need to keep them moving.” With up to ifty vehicles leased and leet managed, Heco Group — a specialist in the supply and installation of residential and commercial façades — has been a key FleetPartners customer since 2013. FleetPartners has helped Heco Group reduce internal sta administration time, costs and increase the safety of its vehicle leet. “This includes managing their annual scheduled servicing for all vehicles, roadside assistance, annual registration management, reporting, new vehicle needs for their leet and discounted fuel cards. Heco Group has its own expert Relationship Manager for all of their vehicle needs.” Re lecting on what has been at the heart of FleetPartners successful journey over four decades, Melanie says it comes down to o ering dedicated Relationship Management for each customer and innovative digital solutions. “All FleetPartners customers are allocated their own direct Relationship Manager through either the Corporate Relationship Management team or BusinessDirect small business team, supported by a large Customer Experience team.” FleetPartners has proven its superior service through a long tenure of many of New Zealand’s largest businesses relying on FleetPartners to manage its vehicle leets. This includes Mainfreight for over 40 years and NZ Post for over 20 years. “We also believe innovation leads to stronger customer solutions and a core focus of our digital strategy is our class leading Nitro platform. Nitro makes visibility across the customer’s whole leet easy, with costings drilled down to overall vehicle costs per driver, reporting, and numerous other features such as pool booking.”

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