Company Cars

[ck1]

Who has the responsibility for return of a company car, is it up to the employee to take back to the company head office or does the company need to arrange collection?

[Islay]

Surely it would be for the employee to arrange return.

[mccfluff]

could be either, there is no set rule - usually there is a co car handbook which sets out this kind of stuff

eg in ours it says that the return will be arranged, we have some people who leave and leave the cars at the office on their last days and some - who have been made redundant for example and kept their car for the redundancy period, those ones we tend to get collected.

Its helpful if you have a decent relationship with the co as they may be inclined to make it easier for the returnee, i've ended up driving people back home before.

[ck1]

Depends on your perspective, office is 250 miles away and the car was delivered to me so don't much fancy a long drive and then a long train ride home...

[mccfluff]

ask them to arrange for pick up - are they owned cars or do they lease them?

[ck1]

The company is still a bit in the dark ages, things like company car handbooks haven't yet evolved

[ck1]

The cars are leased

[mccfluff]

the lease company will use a 3rd party to collect - there is of course a cost to this which would be charged to the company. Ob no idea if they would (attempt) to re charge that to you.

[Buenchico]

I worked as 'trade plater' for 2½ years. Many of the vehicle movements I had to do were taking 'end of contract' leased vehicles (which were often 'company cars') to auction sites.

Sometimes I'd collect a car from the business premises of the firm which had leased it but, far more often, I'd also collect a car from the home address of the person who had been driving it.

In every case it was the leasing company that had made the arrangements (not the business which had taken on the lease nor their member of staff who had been driving the vehicle).

Given that such companies operate nationally (and use auction sites across the country to sell their vehicles) it makes no difference to them as to whether a vehicle is collected from an office in Bristol or the driver's home in Newcastle.

[Prudie]

The company arranges collection.