Press Release
October, 2011
Safety recall scheme on track
The free-to-use electronic vehicle safety recall system established by online solutions provider Ebbon-Dacs in conjunction with the BVRLA is on course for delivery in the third quarter of next year after ‘pleasing progress’ between the various interested parties.
Since the announcement of the scheme in September, Oxford-based Ebbon-Dacs, supplier of the UK’s most successful e-procurement platform, Leaselink, has met with companies across the automotive industry, including car and truck manufacturers and fleet operators from both the rental and leasing sectors.
There is now an open meeting on November 23, to which all motor manufacturers are invited, to further discuss and refine the standard recall protocol.
Robert Pilkington, managing director of the Leaselink International division of Ebbon-Dacs, said: “There is wide recognition of the benefits the project can bring and a strong desire to contribute to it. We have a clear definition of a standardised incoming recall data protocol that we intend to finalise in our open meeting with manufacturers at the end of next month.
“We are also working with a sub-group of BVRLA members to define standard data flows for fleet operators and are confident that design will also be complete before the end of November. We plan to deliver the system to pilot in the third quarter of next year and progress to date suggests we are well on course to meet that commitment,” he said.
Last year almost one million vehicles were subject to a vehicle safety recall notification in the UK, and fleet owners currently face rising costs in administering and managing the range of paper and digital recall notifications they receive from motor manufacturers.
One of the BVRLA’s long term objectives has been to provide a standardised, free-to-use recall system for its members, who own and operate more than 2.5m vehicles, and appointed Ebbon-Dacs as technology partner to deliver the project.
Ebbon-Dacs’ is now developing a web-based vehicle recall system that will provide a single location for all manufacturers to list their safety recall notifications. BVRLA members or their appointed agents can then retrieve the information by inputting their own fleet data for comparison purposes.
The new system shows all vehicles that are subject to a new safety recall notification and highlights those with outstanding recalls. It also has the potential to cover non-safety recalls, while customers will also have the option to purchase a product for notifying drivers.
“Our primary objective in introducing this new ‘standard ‘ on behalf of the BVRLA is to simplify the process and reduce the administrative burden fleet operators face in handling vehicle recalls, leading to greater efficiency, lower costs and faster safety recall handling in future, ” added Robert Pilkington.
Robert Pilkington – ‘pleased with progress’
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Notes to Editors
Last year 958,869 vehicles were subject to a vehicle safety recall notification in the UK. The vast majority of these notifications came within three years of the vehicle’s first registration.
About Ebbon-Dacs
Ebbon-Dacs is an online solutions company based near Oxford and specialises in delivering hosted, web technology solutions. The company also has a presence in France and the Netherlands and, through partners, in Italy, Germany, Australia and Portugal.
Ebbon-Dacs, which is owned by a private equity group, provides business process automation solutions to a wide range of automotive business enterprises through a number of different business tools and solutions and is a leader in hosted solutions for the automotive industry. Ebbon-Dacs’ flagship solution is Leaselink, Europe’s leading e-procurement system.
Leaselink is used by dealers and leasing companies around the UK to electronically source and manage more than 100,000 new vehicles per annum.
About the BVRLA
The BVRLA is the UK trade body for companies engaged in the leasing and rental of cars and commercial vehicles. Its members provide short-term rental, contract hire and fleet management services to corporate users and consumers. They operate a combined fleet of around 2.5 million cars, vans and trucks, buying nearly half of all new vehicles sold in the UK.
Through its members and their customers, the BVRLA represents the interests of more than two million business car drivers and the millions of people who use a rental vehicle each year. As well as lobbying the government on key issues affecting the sector, the BVRLA regulates its members through a mandatory code of conduct. www.bvrla.co.uk
Contact information:
Robert Pilkington
Managing director
Ebbon-Dacs
Tel: 01865 866810
Email: robert.pilkington@ebbon-dacs.com
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