Managing Your Vehicles
DFC saves you time, minimizes your fleet costs and helps you manage your corporate responsibilities. With our knowledge and buying power we are experts in helping you with:
Vehicle acquisition advice
Many hours are spent by drivers and managers in the selection of suitable company vehicles. It is often difficult to balance the wishes of the driver against the budget and corporate requirements of the business. This is why we are trusted by our customers to provide independent impartial advice and to guide your drivers through the selection process which includes the organisation of test drives at your convenience.
Funding options
Often companies believe that the best option is to purchase their vehicles, however, with vehicle depreciation being at an all time high, this is not always the most cost effective solution for your business. This is why we offer a range of funding options that can suit your specific circumstances.The term of the contact can be made to suit your specific circumstances, starting from 6 months for new start employees, through to 4 year contracts.
Creating vehicle policies
Vehicle policies and drivers hand books are a part of your responsibility towards your fleet drivers. It is often difficult for businesses to keep up-to-date with the communication of their corporate policies to their drivers. As a core part of our vehicle management process we provide DFC driver handbooks to each driver ensuring that they have all the information they need.
Vehicle administration
All companies that run vehicles experience the ever increasing burden of administrative time required to manage their fleet. With over 2,000 vehicles on our fleet, we have developed a sophisticated system to manage all their administration which means that you no longer need to worry – just leave it to us.
Management of maintenance and servicing
Effective vehicle maintenance and servicing management is critical to providing safe roadworthy vehicles for your staff. In addition to your health and safety obligations, late servicing and poor maintenance are also key contributors to extensive devaluation of vehicles. We are unique in Northern Ireland, to provide a One Call Operations Department where we take the hassle of managing your vehicle(s) from you 365 days a year 24 hours a day. Innovations include our delivery and collection service through DFC drivers and DFC courtesy vehicles for servicing, to ensure that your driver downtime is minimized and your business is not disrupted.
Dedicated Customer Care
A good vehicle management company should provide a customer care programme throughout the contract period. This programme should help you monitor the usage of your vehicle to ensure that you are aware of and can manage the implications of any damage or excess wear and tear, excess mileage and any changes in legislation that may affect you or your drivers.
Vehicle Disposals & Remarketing
At the end of the vehicle term, you no longer need to worry about the disposal of your vehicles. You no longer need to spend precious time and effort in cleaning and preparing your vehicles for sale and advertising in order to maximise the return.
During your contract you will have met with our dedicated Customer Care Manager and our highly experienced Remarketing Manager to review your vehicles on regular basis, to ensure that any over contract mileage, refurbishment or contract termination charges are managed and minimized before the end of the contract.DFC also offer the opportunity to purchase the vehicles you currently own in a Sale and Lease back arrangement. This means that you have a cash injection into your company and all future fleet costs will be managed through a fixed monthly fee.
Additionally, though their Remarketing Department a range of fully serviced, pristine condition ex-contract vehicles are available with full warranty. Many of these vehicles can be re-contracted as VAT qualifying vehicles, thus providing true value for money on a monthly basis.
