LCV DIVISION Open Forum

“Thursday 10^th May 2012 – As the previous nights’ wind and rain battered the Staffordshire countryside, the day dawned with an optimistic air about it in preparation for the official Prohire LCV Division launch at Uttoxeter Racecourse. As the clouds cleared, demonstration vehicles unloaded and customers arrived, the presentations commenced to an audience of 14 key Customers who represented various aspects of the Corporate and Public Sector world and between them a huge variety of applications.

Building upon the success that Prohire PLC have enjoyed in recent years this next phase of our exciting strategic planning, will deliver some very unique solutions to the world of light commercial vehicles as clearly presented by Grahame Neagus, the new LCV Division Business Development Director.

Covering a wide range of topics from different funding methods to the next and exciting electric modes of goods transport, there was something in there for everyone and the day was declared a resounding success. As one of the clients said afterwards;

“Thank you for a valuable presentation yesterday, I found it very useful indeed.”

This was echoed elsewhere from the participants. From a presenter’s perspective, Grahame Neagus says;

“This is a milestone in our development of the customer centric services we are famed for and I was delighted by the interest shown from all those clients who came as well as those who could not make the day. I and the whole team are totally committed and excited at making a real difference to peoples operations moving forward and our plans are to revolutionise the way in which LCV operators are served within the marketplace. The day was a complete success and I look forward to delivering more of the same in the future across the UK and Ireland as our business continues to grow and flourish.”

The LCV Division at Prohire PLC has now firmly landed and all of the new team are extremely busy in liaising with clients and bringing to life all of the solutions that operators are seeking in making their lives more cost effective and efficient, regardless of vehicle size, shape, motive power and application”.

LCV Division is Launched

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Our new LCV Division has just been launched at the beginning of April building upon the successes and excellent foundation of the recent past and creating as a result, a class leading proposition that embraces everything that is great about our existing Customer Centric approach as well as much specific LCV related talent from across our industry.

This strategic development is key in our overall service offering and allows us to now be in a position to create and deliver added value solutions to all operators within this marketplace in a consultative manner that gives you a competitive edge coupled with the very best service provision. Heading up the new Division is Grahame Neagus – LCV Director who has spent 24 years in the industry and in his last role set up and ran the SCVU department within Lloyds TSB Autolease (latterly Lex Autolease) and was the winner of the Fleet News Best LCV Leasing Company Award in 2008 when with Lloyds TSB Autolease. Under Grahame’s direction, the Division will bring to market a whole host of brand new initiatives and solutions that have been required by our industry for some time whilst our focus will be firmly on being in a position to provide the very best customer care and service whilst being able to deliver fully consultative engineering and legal advice.

Accompanying Grahame are two other key industry players, both also coming across from Lex Autolease in Gary Hamilton as Business Development Manager and Stan Bennett as Fleet Engineering Manager. Both Gary and Stan have in excess of 30 years experience each from within the LCV and HGV marketplace, with Gary having worked at ARVAL prior to Lex Autolease on all types of sector sales including in the Public Sector arena, and Stan having held Fleet Engineering roles within the likes of BRS, NFC, The rail industry and then in the last decade, Lex Autolease.

Both Gary and Stan come to the new Division with the same single mindedness in the strategy of success that we are developing; based around the unique services we are able to now provide the industry. With the vast experience that the initial staff have coupled with the commercial vehicle experience of the rest of the people at Prohire PLC, the new LCV Division is set to be a major force within the market and is determined to lead not follow the industry in its approach and execution of the strategic goals it has set.

A very exciting phase has now begun and that can only mean good news for those within our marketplace who are seeking a professional, understanding and cost effective contract hire and fleet management LCV provider to work with moving forward, whose foundation comes from a heavy truck philosophy and and whose business ethos is all about the delivery of the very best customer service.