Blog: Vocational trucks are susceptible to being targeted for staged accidents, which involves maneuvering an unsuspecting employee driver into an intentional crash in order to make a false insurance claim or to file a lawsuit against the driver’s employer.
Fuel fraud is a consistent issue in the fleet industry, but there are a number of solutions that seek to curb this persistent problem.
Since 2016, there has been an ongoing uptick in fuel card fraud. In light of this, it is important for companies to develop a fraud prevention strategy addressing misuse, slippage, and outright fraud.
While expense fraud related to mileage is often unintentional, whether it’s deliberate or not it can cost companies with fleets millions of dollars in overpayments. The good news is there are simple ways to combat it.
A-26-year-old Guinean has been arrested by the police for posing as a bank official to defraud automobile companies of a fleet of cars.
With the world's reliance on cashless transactions growing every year, now is the time for fleet operators to get ahead in the race against fuel card payment fraud.
One of the Dunedin City, New Zealand, Council's most senior managers has resigned over the Citifleet fraud investigation. According to evidence provided to the police, 152 fleet vehicles worth NZ$1.5 million were sold over the past decade and the proceeds pocketed.
From lot thefts and employee scams to fuel fraud, car rental operators share their security issues and how they solved them.
Fuel fraud and theft – the two major causes of significant financial losses to the fleet industry in South Africa – have been reduced by a computerized fuel management system from fleet management services provider Avis Fleet Services.
“Clocking” is the illegal process of rolling back an odometer to a mileage lower than the actual miles driven. This crime is most prevalent with late-model vehicles, which have accumulated high mileage in a relatively short period of time, such as typically occurs with fleet vehicles. If you think odometer tampering is a thing of the past, you should think again. From 2007 to 2010, there has been a double-digit increase in odometer tampering.
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