Fleet Manager CV Examples & Writing Guide

A CV for a fleet manager with 13 years in transport, running a mixed fleet of tractor units, trailers, rigids and service vans. The person and the companies are invented. Every role leads with unit count and driver count, because that is the first thing an operations director wants to know.

Fleet manager is a cost and risk job. The person hiring you is worried about two things going wrong: money leaking out of maintenance and fuel, and a compliance failure that takes vehicles off the road or puts the operator's licence at risk.

• Scale and mix. Unit count, driver count, number of sites, and what kind of vehicles. A 40-van service fleet and a 300-tractor-unit haulage fleet are different jobs with different rules.
• Cost numbers you moved. Cost per mile, maintenance cost per unit, fuel spend, downtime percentage, inspection compliance. Anyone can say they controlled costs; the before and after figure is the proof.
• Compliance record. DVSA visit outcomes, OCRS bands, driver licence check records, drivers' hours and tachograph infringements. Say the outcome plainly, because a blank here reads as a problem.
• Safety results. Preventable accidents per year or per million miles, and what you did that changed the number: camera coaching, a new hiring standard, a route change.
• Systems. Which telematics platform, which maintenance software, which fuel card scheme. Implementation experience is worth more than years of steady use, because most companies are mid-change.

“Give me three numbers and you have my attention: units, cost per mile and PMI compliance. The CVs that lose me are the ones that list responsibilities I could copy out of any job advert. My job is to hire someone who stops money leaking out of a workshop, so show me the leak you found and what you did about it.”

People search for fleet manager duties and responsibilities and then paste the list straight onto the CV. That is what makes fleet CVs look identical. Here is the same duty, written twice.

Three lines. Years, fleet size and mix, the systems, and one cost or compliance number. Save the career objective for people moving into the role.

Ten to fourteen items, split into compliance, cost and systems. Name the exact platforms, because job adverts are usually written around whatever the company already owns.

• Compliance: operator licence undertakings, driver licence checks, drivers' hours and working time rules, tachograph analysis and infringement reports, defect reporting, safety inspection intervals, annual tests, OCRS, drug and alcohol policies
• Cost control: cost per mile, whole-life cost, lifecycle and replacement planning, maintenance cost per unit, warranty recovery, fuel card management
• Maintenance: inspection programme design, in-house workshop versus supplier decisions, parts inventory, roadside and breakdown response, spare-unit pools
• Systems: Samsara, Geotab, Microlise, Webfleet, Fleetio, Chevin FleetWave, tachograph analysis software, fuel cards such as Allstar or Keyfuels, and any ERP or transport planning system you use
• Procurement: vehicle specification, tender and quote comparison, conversions and bodywork, contract hire versus purchase analysis, remarketing and auction disposal
• Licensing and tax: operator licence vehicle authorisations and variations, vehicle tax (VED), annual test bookings, V5C records
• Risk: accident and incident investigation, claims and cost recovery, insurance renewal data packs, driver safety scorecards and coaching
• People: supervising technicians, transport planners and drivers, recruitment and retention, running safety meetings, training on new systems

There is no licence required to be a fleet manager in the UK, but an operator with a standard goods vehicle operator's licence must name a transport manager who holds a Transport Manager CPC, and many fleet jobs ask for one. Other qualifications work as evidence rather than as a gate. These are the ones hiring managers recognise.

• An HGV licence is not usually required for the job, but it is a strong signal on a lorry fleet, and it means you can move a vehicle yourself when you have to. List the category and your Driver CPC.
• Qualifications seen in this field range from a Level 3 heavy vehicle apprenticeship to logistics or business degrees. Either works; put the education line at the bottom and let the fleet numbers carry the page.
• Lean or Six Sigma training is worth a line if you used it on a real workshop process, and dead weight if you did not.
• If you came up through the workshop, keep your IRTEC licence. It tells a director you can tell when a repair quote is wrong.

• Two pages is normal for a UK fleet manager CV; one is enough early in your career. Keep the fleet size, budget and compliance record on page one.
• Reverse chronological, single column, no graphics. Haulage and distribution companies use applicant tracking systems and older parsers, so keep it plain.
• Open each job with a one-line scope statement: units, drivers, sites, budget. Then the bullets.
• Mirror the advert's language: fleet size, cost per mile, safety inspections, PMI, operator licence, DVSA compliance, drivers' hours, tachograph, OCRS, telematics, driver safety, uptime, lifecycle replacement, supplier management.
• Name the vehicle types you have run (44-tonne artics, 18-tonne and 7.5-tonne rigids, vans, refuse vehicles, fridges, flatbeds) so the match is obvious.
• PDF, named lastname-firstname-fleet-manager.pdf. UK conventions: no photo, no date of birth, no marital status.
• Many UK operators advertise a similar job as transport manager, and the nominated transport manager on an operator's licence needs a Transport Manager CPC. If you hold one, put it in your header; if you do not, van, car and service fleets are where it is least often asked for.