The role of fleet manager can encompass many facades. Mobility, facilities, insurance, transport,  travel, logistics: increasingly the job title is fleet and “insert other responsibility here” manager.

Such is the case with Debbie Floyde, the 2022 inductee into the Fleet Hall of Fame. Group fleet manager at Fleet News parent company Bauer Media for the past 25 years, Floyde took on responsibility for commercial insurance procurement and risk management in 2008 and added facilities and group travel to the mix six years ago.

It was already a diverse fleet role, incorporating conventional company vehicles, outside broadcast trucks for radio and street team cars, plus the press cars, vans and motorcycles used by journalists for evaluation.

Now, as group fleet, risk and facilities manager, she says her expanding curriculum vitae ought to include another skill: “expert ball juggler”. She adds: