International expansion for TR Fleet as it heads Down Under

COVENTRY fleet management specialist TR Fleet has expanded overseas with the launch of an Australian operation.

TR Australia, the firm’s  first overseas venture, opens this month in Melbourne and will be targeting companies in both Australia and New Zealand.

TR Fleet suggests the new business is ideally placed to take advantage of a shift towards imported vehicle brands and impending and anticipated changes to safety and tax legislation affecting fleet management.

The new business will be offering TR Fleet’s ‘DriveSecure’ risk management tool to employers to enable them to comply with new Workplace Health and Safety (WHS) regulations that will come into effect in all Australian states by 2015.

The tool collates data from the supply chain in order to alert employers to insurance and safety issues that they or their drivers need to address – from driver, licensing and policies checks to regular tyre pressure checks and eyesight tests.  

The new venture is headed up by executive directors Mat Presney, who has 17 years’ experience in the Australian and UK automotive manufacturing, finance and fleet management sectors, and Jeremy Sneddon, who has more than 20 years’ executive experience in the banking and finance sectors with a special emphasis on fleet management problem solving.

Julie Summerell, managing director of TR Fleet, said: “This is a very exciting time for TR Fleet with the launch of this new venture in Australia and New Zealand, just as new health and safety regulations impose a greater administrative burden on employers.”