AT the annual BVRLA dinner, the association launched Three-Year Plan to ensure it can address the unprecedented range of challenges facing the leasing sector.
BVRLA Chairman, Matt Dyer, told diners at the London dinner:
“2017 has seen our part of the transport sector well and truly enter the limelight.
“The ‘demonization of diesel’, a spotlight on motor finance and questions about vehicle rental security have all dominated media headlines and risen up the agendas of both the Government and regulators.
“These are not the only challenges that the vehicle rental and leasing sector has to deal with. In the midst of all this media and policy activity the BVRLA has to plot the industry’s course towards a fairer motoring tax regime, a competitive model for sharing and monetizing connected vehicle data and a sustainable market for electric vehicles.
“We need a stronger and better resourced trade association that can really fight the industry’s corner.”
Dyer went on to outline some of the key investments the BVRLA is making in staff, external support and infrastructure:
- Recruiting new staff to boost its campaigning, communications, governance and training work
- Working with external agencies to increase its constructive engagement with MPs, policymakers and local authorities
- Increasing investment in research so that the association can paint a clearer picture of what is happening in the industry
- Investing across its digital platforms to provide members with more useful and timely communications
- Tightening the requirements of its inspection regime and improving the level of feedback and support that is provided to members
- Rolling out a new e-Learning platform and increasing the range of training and development opportunities on offer
The BVRLA also said that 2017 had seen another positive year for membership, with growth in all its core categories. The BVRLA said it now had 931 members owning and operating almost 5 million cars, vans and trucks.
