Copart Automotive, our division dedicated to providing specialist vehicle remarketing solutions to the automotive fleet, finance, rental and retail sectors, helps businesses to realise exceptional values from their vehicles.
In this article we look at Copart Automotive as a whole division, and how our products and services continue to support businesses across the automotive fleet, finance, retail, and rental sectors.
A brand-new team structured to provide the best-quality service.
Copart Automotive represents the division of Copart UK Ltd which provides specialist vehicle remarketing services to the automotive finance, fleet, retail, and rental sectors.
Within Copart Automotive, we have specific teams, focused on delivering high-value services to businesses of all sizes by providing a specialist remarketing solution that best suits the needs of the individual customer.
Businesses of all sizes work with Copart because of our ability to achieve great returns at auction on sub-optimal vehicles, in a quick and hassle-free way. Our combination of a patented, online, ‘live-lane’ auction, specialist account management, and a global buyer base provides a unique service which is unmatched across the vehicle remarketing sector.
Our dedicated teams
Michael Stewart, Nick Whalley and Claire Woods look after our largest, national customer accounts, and between them have a broad range of experience gained working across the UK automotive sector.
Read more from Michael on how Copart Automotive supports a range of customers >
Claire Woods is the dedicated contact for our existing national key accounts, and works with our customers to keep everything running as smoothly as possible. This has certainly been even more important as we’ve all faced the challenges of the past 12 months.
Read more from Claire on how she supports our Automotive customers >
Nick’s role at Copart is to help new customers realise returns on their vehicles, working with them to provide specialist remarketing solutions through our 100% online auctions, and wide range of additional, added-value services.
Read more about how Nick helps new customers >
We also work with many regionally based businesses throughout the UK who benefit from the more localised support provided by our Regional Accounts team.
Matthew Boswell, Head of Automotive Regional Accounts, leads this team – who are located across the country – to provide that localised support, alongside our nationwide vehicle collection services and global auction.
See how our Regional Accounts team help businesses of all sizes >
A continually evolving suite of products and services
Whilst Copart have provided a purely online auction in the UK for over a decade, we work tirelessly to continually develop and evolve our suite of technology, which is specifically designed to create value for our customers.
Over the last year, we have quickly launched online bookings to provide a safe and efficient way for our customers to continue to purchase and collect vehicles from our nationwide Operation Centres.
Alongside this, our owned fleet of over 400 vehicle transporters continues to collect more and more vehicles on behalf of our customers, with 97% collected within one working day.
With this increase in customer collections, we launched our Owner Connect service, which allows our customers to arrange collections through an online form and provides regular updates on the collection date, enabling a swift and hassle-free collection.
More recently, we have launched Copart’s GO App – a brand-new service which enables our customers to list vehicles for sale in our global online auctions using just a smartphone, from the comfort of their own premises.
A nationwide network of owned, connected Operation Centres
Underpinning our patented, online auctions is a network of connected, nationwide Operation Centres and an owned transport fleet which enables us to collect and deliver vehicles quickly and efficiently.
Maintaining an incredibly high standard of operational excellence is key to delivering a truly outstanding online experience, and our entire operation has been constructed to support our online auctions, from day one.
Our robust network of Copart Operation Centres, located strategically across the UK, gives us the advantage of both operational expertise from over 1,100 employees and unrivalled storage capacity of over 400 acres in total.
We’ve recently announced major expansion plans for our Bristol Operation Centre, making this location set to become a 63-acre Super Centre for the South West, alongside other expansions in Wisbech and York and continuous improvements at our other existing Centres.
Backed by ISO
We’re very proud to have been awarded our sixth ISO accreditation this year, the ISO 22301 Business Continuity Management Standard, a globally recognised standard which is designed to help businesses prevent, prepare for, respond to, and recover from, unexpected and disruptive incidents and threats.
We see each of these accreditations as a huge achievement, demonstrating the continued dedication of our teams to uphold the highest standards required to achieve this.
A stable partner in unprecedented times.
Due to the confirmation that Copart UK Ltd provides essential services, we have remained open and able to continue to support our customers throughout the coronavirus pandemic – with the safety of our people at the forefront of every decision made along the way.
We’ve been able to provide our existing customers with stability throughout this period of uncertainty and disruption. More and more businesses have started working with Copart Automotive and each of our customers have benefitted from the strong performance of our auctions throughout the year.
If you would like to discuss how Copart Automotive could help support your business, please get in touch.
Copart Automotive is unparalleled in the marketplace it can offer to Fleet, Finance, Rental and Retail; with many major customers within this sector leveraging Copart Automotive’s vehicle remarketing services, alongside the already impressive array of Insurance customers selling through Copart.