The Government has announced a strategy to tackle congestion caused by motorway closures and drive down the £1bn annual cost to the economy. This included the launch of a £3m fund for police forces to purchase laser scanning technology to speed up of the investigation process and incident clear up times.

Fuel could become the highest pence per mile cost of running a company car in less than five years, says CFC Solutions.

The fleet software industry market leader points out that petrol and diesel prices have risen by roughly 50% in the last five years and there is every reason to expect that they will increase by the same amount before 2016.

We tend to think of car accidents as major collisions involving thousands of pounds' worth of remedial bodywork attention.

But, in fact, the bump in a car park, the broken door mirror, the ding in the door, are actually the most common type of collisions experienced by firms around the world.

The fall in employment and the growth of home working has helped to cut average commute times to a 10 year low of 47 minutes and 48 seconds per day, according to a TUC analysis of official figures. Using figures from the Labour Force Survey (LFS), the TUC has calculated that £339 million worth of working time is spent travelling to and from work every day.