AR Lunn Transport & Warehousing Limited orders Fleetstar-Online solution and takes advantage of Cybit’s Telematics Enabled Fleet Insurance offering

• Three years fixed insurance premiums and up to 16 per cent annual risk recognition rebate now available to AR Lunn Transport & Warehousing
• New implementation will help control increasing fuel and labour costs

Cybit, the UK's leading online Telematics Service Provider (TSP), has announced a major order for its Fleetstar-Online solution from AR Lunn Transport & Warehousing, one of the UK's leading transport and warehousing specialists. AR Lunn Transport & Warehousing will implement the solution into its fleet of over 100 vehicles to reduce operational costs, enhance its Duty of Care and increase the visibility of its fleet so it can feed back progress information to its customers. Live traffic updates will also help reduce delays experienced by its drivers.

Cybit's Telematics Enabled Fleet Insurance (TEFI) offer has enabled AR Lunn Transport & Warehousing to lock down its fleet insurance premiums for the next three years and will allow it to earn a profit share of up to 16 per cent per annum, subject to meeting agreed claims experience targets.

AR Lunn Transport & Warehousing now uses reporting data from Fleetstar-Online to significantly enhance the efficiency of its payroll processes. Start and finish times, taken from the system, are used directly as a single mechanism for producing employee timesheets, where previously it had a two-tiered verification approach that was much more time and labour intensive. Its long term aims are to reduce driving distances, enhance productivity and increase overall driver safety.

"Telematics is something that we'd been thinking about for a long time, and with fuel and labour costs rising significantly we felt the time was right to start addressing these - and Fleetstar-Online is the ideal solution to help us do that," commented Andrew Lunn, Managing Director, AR Lunn Transport & Warehousing. "Cybit's Telematics Enabled Fleet Insurance offering was a major factor in clinching this deal, because the insurance benefits are so significant. Fleetstar-Online also gives us a way to reduce our operating costs, which are also increasing significantly year after year through improved route planning, congestion avoidance and reduced idle times."

The Insurance Partnership is the fleet insurance broker for AR Lunn Transport & Warehousing and an integral part of the commercial relationship. "TEFI is beneficial for everyone involved," added Lee Sutton, Senior Account Executive, The Insurance Partnership. "Fleetstar-Online is a great system for our clients, such as AR Lunn Transport & Warehousing, and for us. It helps enhance our clients' risk management strategies and operational efficiencies, but is also gives us a record of a vehicle's activity, which is invaluable during the processing of a claim. We can then use this information to analyse claims and find trends that will help further improve risk management. The benefit for the more responsible fleet is profit sharing from the insurer and on-going economies on premium costs."

"Companies such as AR Lunn Transport & Warehousing have to balance service levels with costs, which can be difficult without full visibility of each vehicle in the fleet," commented John Wisdom, Group Sales and Marketing Director, Cybit. "This enhanced visibility and manageability of all vehicles leads to reduced operational costs and greater productivity, but also to more effective risk management. This is reflected in the additional benefits that AR Lunn Transport & Warehousing can gain from Cybit’s TEFI offer. More comprehensive risk management also goes a long way to satisfying legislative concerns regarding Duty of Care."

Cybit was recently named in the top ten of the ABI’s Global Telematics Vendor Matrix, and was the highest ranked European organisation. The recognition came as the result of its innovation in technology and professional services to its customers.

Fleetstar-Online is Cybit's scalable Internet-based fleet and asset management solution that provides organisations with precisely the level of telematics functionality they require, while also ensuring an easy upgrade path so that it can evolve to meet changing business needs. Fleet vehicles are fitted with a small electronic in-vehicle-unit (IVU) which is tracked by GPS in real-time and then transmits data to Cybit's online control centre. It provides companies with a cost-effective ASP-based fleet management solution, which offers users anytime, anywhere access to the system via a standard web browser.

<sub>About AR Lunn
AR Lunn Transport and Warehousing has more than 25 years' experience in the transport and warehousing sector. In order to offer a complete transport package, AR Lunn maintains a fleet of more than 100 vehicles, made up of 41 and 44 tonnes, and it is currently expanding its fleet. It also has a range of almost 150 trailers, which fulfil the latest legislation requirements regarding 44 tonne.

About Cybit:
Cybit is the UK's market leading internet-based Telematics Service Provider (TSP). It provides over 1,000 organisations of all sizes across a wide range of industries with a comprehensive suite of online solutions to improve the management and control of nearly 25,000 fixed and mobile assets.

Cybit recently extended its reach into the maritime telematics sector following the acquisition of BlueFinger Limited, a global leader in the delivery of high value Economic Exclusion Zone (EEZ) management solutions to UK and international governments.

Additional information is available at www.cybit.co.uk and www.bluefinger.com

Contact information:

Duncan Burford
IBA - PR for Cybit
Tel: 01780 721 433
Email: dburford@iba-europe.com

Chris Linney
Senior Marketing Executive, Cybit
Tel: 01480 389100
Email: clinney@cybit.co.uk</sub>

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