Key insights into the Fleet Industry May 2020

Vehicles on the roads (GB)

38.7m licenced vehicles

• Cars ~ 31.9m
• Light Good Vehicles (vans) ~ 4.1m
• Heavy Goods Vehicles (trucks) ~ 0.5m
• Motorcycles ~1.25m
• Bus and Coaches ~0.15m
• Other ~ 0.7m

See https://bit.ly/3fJVSAb

 

New registrations in 2019 (GB)

• 9m vehicles registered for first time
• Diesel cars down 18% on 2018
• 38k Battery electric (BEVs)
• 112k Hybrid Electric (HEVs)
• 35k Plugin Hybrid Electric (PHEVs)
• BEVs up 141% in 2019 vs 2018
• HEVs up 30%
• PHEVs down 17%

 

Business drivers (2017/18)

• 890,000 company car drivers  ~ down 5.3% on 16/17 + 2m other co. owned
• 4m van users (private and company)
• 310,000 truck drivers
  • Shortage of 59k drivers (2019)
• Grey Fleet – 14m people (est) use their private vehicles at work

 

Road Casualties (worldwide)

• 35m people killed on roads a year
• 1 work-related death every 90 seconds
• Europe: 25,000 lives lost in 2016, of which 40% were work-related
• Britain: Brake say nearly one in three (31%) deaths involved someone driving for work.

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Road Casualties (Great Britain)

• 1,784 died on GB roads in 2018
  • Each fatality costs around £2.2m in lost output, medical & ambulance and human costs
• 160,597 reported casualties

Of those who died in 2018,

• 44% were car occupants
• 52% were vulnerable road users
  • 26% pedestrians
  • 20% motorcyclists
  • 6% cyclists
• 4% other road users

Where did the deaths happen?

• 36% urban roads
• 58% rural roads
• 6% motorways

Where did the casualties happen?

• 63% urban roads
• 32% rural roads
• 5% motorways

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Number of UK Fleets by size (cars & vans)

• 1-49:                        135,000
• 50-99:                      1,500
• 100-149:                  500
• 150+:                       1,000
• Top 200 fleets:       2,500 vehicles (average)

 

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