Team Tusker on the up
Tusker have added three more new car schemes to their portfolio, covering nearly 10,000 employees in its operations in the UK.
Tusker has now taken more than 12,000 orders to date through its award-winning SalarySacrifice4Cars scheme (SS4C) in both the private and public sectors. The number of live schemes has grown by more than 60% in the last 12 months taking the total number of live schemes to more than 180.
The three latest schemes are with Sandwell Council which has around 5,000 employees, Calderdale Council which has launched a new low carbon car scheme to more than 3,600 eligible employees, and Oxford City Council which has 1,200 eligible employees.
Jan Britton, Chief Executive of Sandwell Council, said that the new salary sacrifice scheme had been very well received by employees and that in excess of 40 new car orders had already been placed, adding: “The salary sacrifice car scheme joins a number of benefits under our Sandwell Employee Benefits Scheme package, and after two months is already ahead of where we expected it to be.”
The initiative at Calderdale was driven by the Council’s Transport Services Manager, Paul Topham, who recommended the idea of a salary sacrifice car scheme, open to all permanent employees, to the Human Resources department: “I had seen the scheme that was being run by Tusker with North Yorkshire County Council and was very impressed by it. I thought a similar scheme would work very well at Calderdale.”
So far, the Calderdale scheme has been greeted very enthusiastically with more than 40 new car orders being placed in the first three months, covering a wide range of vehicles from Ford Fiestas to Range Rover Evoques.
At Oxford City Council, the new salary sacrifice car scheme has also been set with a carbon cap of 130g/km, and gives employees a choice from up to 3,500 available new models.
Payroll Technician, Paul Collins, said: “Our employees already have access to other salary sacrifice schemes for childcare vouchers and cycles for work, and in a survey identified that a car scheme would be a welcome addition to those benefits available.”
The terms of the agreements are flexible so that employees can choose from vehicle contracts of 24, 30 or 36 months, while the scheme is inclusive of motor insurance, servicing and maintenance, Road Fund Licence, roadside assistance, tyres and glass.
