A love of listening and driving: what does a day in the life of a fleet manager look like?
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Fleet managers offer support, guidance and advice as well as a vital knowledge bank for clients – and it’s also a job that requires a lot of time spent on the road. Luckily for Škoda’s Amy Nash, she gets to do it behind the wheel of a Superb Estate.
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Amy Nash is an area fleet manager for Škoda UK, looking after businesses with fleets comprised of Škoda cars across the south-west and south coast of England. She describes here what a typical day for her entails – although, as she says, there’s really no such thing as “typical” – as well as explaining why the all-new Škoda Superb is an exciting proposition for fleet drivers.
![[Amy Nash, Skoda Fleet Manager, with the new Skoda Superb - photographed near Swindon for Glabs x Skoda Feet campaign 2024]](https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/2c26bee90532609a7a5202d3c246299b84b87d7f/0_0_1278_1918/master/1278.jpg?width=445&dpr=1&s=none&crop=none)
Preparation starts before bedtime. Nash’s day starts the night before. “I always plan my journeys in advance,” she says. “Before I switch off my laptop and phone for the night, I log into the MyŠkoda app on my mobile.”. Entering her first destination into the app, it sends the details to her Škoda Superb Estate, Laurin & Klement, 1.5 TSI iV plug-in hybrid. It means that when her alarm goes off, there’s no scrambling for postcodes, she just grabs a coffee and heads for her first meeting after the school run.
![[Amy Nash, Skoda Fleet Manager, with the new Skoda Superb - photographed near Swindon for Glabs x Skoda Feet campaign 2024]](https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/bd7dbee036899b65f8b53fd9b7517b91b4d19ce6/0_0_2663_1918/master/2663.jpg?width=445&dpr=1&s=none&crop=none)
The Superb plug-in hybrid is available as an estate and delivers an electric range of up to 84 miles – giving drivers the option of travelling on electric power, petrol power or a combination of the two. What’s more, its lower CO2 emissions mean drivers who choose it as their company car pay less tax on the benefit than if they’d gone for a vehicle that ran just on petrol or diesel – at 5% Benefit-in-Kind (BiK).
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