{"id":17890,"date":"2024-01-26T13:49:41","date_gmt":"2024-01-26T13:49:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.lnetdev.uk\/thevra2026\/?p=17890"},"modified":"2026-04-13T17:09:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T16:09:23","slug":"listen-back-vra-member-meeting-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.lnetdev.uk\/thevra2026\/listen-back-vra-member-meeting-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Listen back &#8211; VRA member meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p><strong>Wednesday 25 January 2024 at Geldards, Derby<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013<strong>&nbsp;Finance, insurance and the LCV market<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\r\n<li>Adrian Dally, director of motor finance and strategy, Finance and Leasing Association on the opportunities and challenges for motor finance in 2024<\/li>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<li>Tim Kelly, managing director and owner at MotorClaimGuru, examines the impact of the rising cost of insurance on retailers and remarketing (00:27:20)<\/li>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<li>Louise Wallis, automotive retail specialist and director of Auto Strategies, discusses progress on Consumer Duty implementation (00:58:30)<\/li>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<li>Jon Butler, VRA legal counsel, Geldards, provides an update on the latest legislative changes affecting the automotive sector (01:21:31)<\/li>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<li>Julian Pullen, senior editor, commercial vehicles and motorcycles, cap hpi outlines the current state of play and future forecasts on the LCV market (01:47:57)<\/li>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<li>followed by an LVC panel discussion with (02:11:30):\r\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\r\n<li>Graham Howes, head of digital sales, Motor Auction Group<\/li>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<li>Stuart Peak, national LCV manager, Manheim<\/li>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<li>Louis Maxwell, senior insight manager, Auto Trader<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>The full recording of this meeting can be accessed anytime here: <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/VRA250124\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/VRA250124<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><strong>Thursday 21 March 2024 at Geldards, Derby<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013<strong>&nbsp;Finance, insurance and the LCV market<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\r\n<li>Andy Shields, global business unit director of Indicata &#8211; update on the used car market (00:03:00)<\/li>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<li>Mark Davis, key account manager and Craig Auden, product owner at epyx &#8211; latest trends in disposal strategies (00:41:00)<\/li>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<li>Panel discussion, with (01:13:25):\r\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\r\n<li>Stuart Chamberlain, head of B2B and partnerships at Arval UK<\/li>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<li>David Watkins, commercial director of Greenhous Fleet Services<\/li>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<li>Vicky Malcolm, relationship manager at Motability Operations<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/li>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<li>Logistics Q&amp;A with (01:34:24): \r\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\r\n<li>Martin Mullender, commercial director of All Counties Vehicle Logistics<\/li>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<li>Leslie White, commercial director of NVD UK<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/li>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<li>Marcus Blakemore, VRA sub-committee chair &#8211; discussion on vehicle specification on cars built during Covid (02:01:00)<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>The full recording of this meeting can be accessed anytime here: <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/VRA210324\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/VRA210324 <\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><strong>Thursday 25 July 2024 at Cox Automotive, Bruntingthorpe Battery Health<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\r\n<li>Olivia Mills, remarketing manager at Zenith on the Wellbeing, Diversity and Inclusion sub-committee (00:03:00)<\/li>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<li>Battery health check discussion (00:16:38 to 01:39:19)\r\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\r\n<li>Alex Johns, partnership lead, Altelium<\/li>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<li>Patrick Cresswell, co-founder and managing director, ClearWatt<\/li>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<li>Matthieu Peugeot, sales manager, Aviloo<\/li>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<li>Roland Gagel, member of the board, CARA Europe<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\r\n<li>Robin Brundle, co-founder, Recyclus and Technology Minerals discusses battery recycling and ways to deal with damaged EV batteries (02:00:32)<\/li>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<li>Election panel discussion (02:32:18)\r\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\r\n<li>Alastair Cassels, partner and head of automotive advisory, MHA<\/li>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<li>Lee Swinerd, director, head of automotive, Interpath<\/li>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<li>Louise Wallis, founder, Auto Strategies<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>The full recording of this meeting can be accessed anytime here: <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/4cUlIi5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/4cUlIi5<\/a><\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday 25 January 2024 at Geldards, Derby&nbsp;\u2013&nbsp;Finance, insurance and the <a class=\"moretag btn btn-primary\" href=\"https:\/\/dev.lnetdev.uk\/thevra2026\/listen-back-vra-member-meeting-2\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":17892,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vra-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.lnetdev.uk\/thevra2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.lnetdev.uk\/thevra2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.lnetdev.uk\/thevra2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.lnetdev.uk\/thevra2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.lnetdev.uk\/thevra2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17890"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dev.lnetdev.uk\/thevra2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18361,"href":"https:\/\/dev.lnetdev.uk\/thevra2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17890\/revisions\/18361"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.lnetdev.uk\/thevra2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.lnetdev.uk\/thevra2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.lnetdev.uk\/thevra2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.lnetdev.uk\/thevra2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}