Highways England are now collaborating with partners in the public sector to deliver improvements in work-related road safety using the Driving for Better Business programme. The public sector part of the programme was launched with a high-level event at the Houses of Parliament in January bringing together leading figures from the public sector to
The Devon and Cornwall Police ‘No Excuse’ team has been cracking down on poor driving and poorly maintained vehicles as part of Operation Logjam – a pre-Christmas multi-agency initiative in the South West with a focus on light commercial vehicles. Aided by staff from the Peninsula Road Safety Partnership and Highways England, 560 drivers
Driving for Better Safety is an eBook on assessing work-related road risk produced by SHP online in collaboration with Driving for Better Business. It looks at: The dangers your drivers face on the roads The likelihood that your business could be affected How to decrease the risks What best practice looks like Case studies of
Highways England and the Department for Transport are implementing a Government programme to help reduce the number of collisions and casualties on our roads and in so doing reduce the considerable pressure on resources, both human and financial. To support this programme, Highways England – the government-owned company responsible for the maintenance and operation of
There are an estimated 14 million grey fleet vehicles on UK roads being used for business journeys. Regardless of the reason for the journey – whether your employee is driving to a customer meeting half way across the country or driving to the shop to pick up milk during the working day – their
Grey fleet drivers represent one of the single most at-risk groups for businesses today. Why? Because many businesses with active grey fleets simply do not realise the level of responsibility they have. The law is clear - Quite simply, the grey fleet needs to be managed in exactly the same way as company owned
A key area of the grey fleet market that is frequently overlooked is the way it’s being fuelled by a growing tendency for cash allowances to be offered to employees. Employees often see a cash allowance as a win-win situation; if they do already have a car in the household, it makes running it
All over Europe, businesses allow employees to use their own cars for work journeys. However, research indicates that many drivers are not checking their vehicles before a business trip. It’s very likely that this is something that companies are simply not aware of, and equally, they may not be aware of some of the
Today, Enterprise Car Club has more than 1,600 vehicles available to its nearly 55,000 members in 30 cities across the UK. Of those, 700 belong to more than 30 dedicated car clubs that are used by 15,000 business members from public and private sector organisations. Their customers have ditched their grey fleet, pool and
Stephen Briers, Editor-in-Chief of Fleet News says there is nothing inherently wrong with having a grey fleet. There are plenty of examples where grey fleet happily co-exists with a company fleet but good management takes admin time, the right processes and resource. He says grey fleet will become a more pressing issue for a
