Lex Vehicle Leasing is the UK's largest contract hire company with over 98,500 vehicles on its books. This includes over 17,000 vans, the UK's largest owned van fleet.

It specialises in the buying, running and disposing of company vehicles on behalf of its 4,500 customers. With a growing number of companies looking to revert back to their core business, so more and more are appointing vehicle management experts, such as Lex Vehicle Leasing, to run company vehicles on their behalf.

Vehicle reliability is a major concern for Lex customers when opting to add vehicles to their company car list, and Lex does everything in its power to ensure that each vehicle is serviced and maintained within manufacturers' guidelines, using manufacturer parts.

There is no doubt that vehicles should be getting more reliable, but this survey shows a slightly different picture. More often than not the car breaks down when the driver is late for a very important meeting, thus causing maximum disruption to the employer and employee.

Few companies have an idea about the reliability of vehicles other than the ones they run. Hence the reason Lex has decided to share its experience of vehicle reliability across its large fleet with its customers.

Not only will this guide help fleet operators when choosing new cars to add to their fleet, but it will also help identify problems which they may experience in the future.