The Brake Fleet Safety Awards were held last night at the Birmingham Hilton Metropole near the NEC and, once again, our Business Champions were well represented. The fact that so many attended is testament to their commitment to promoting road safety and helping to sustain a thriving community of like-minded individuals. We had a

Amey and WJ Group recognised by Highways England for their achievements in managing work-related road risk. Amey reduce incidents by 38%, while WJ reduce incidents by 20% in 12 months. Both have also seen significant reductions in fuel use and emissions, as well as other key fleet management costs. Highways England calls on public

Driving for Better Business has teamed up with Project EDWARD (European Day Without A Road Death) to create a simple 10 question quiz around some of the contributory factors for serious collisions. Business drivers are often unwittingly, or sometimes knowingly, putting other road users at risk in so many ways, often through a lack of

The statistics around Obstructive Sleep Apnoea (OSA) - the condition where the walls of the throat relax and narrow during sleep, interrupting breathing and disturbing sleep, potentially triggering severe daytime sleepiness - make alarming reading. The OSA Partnership Group, a group of organisations with an interest in this common condition, recently reported that it

Andy Eastlake has a background in engineering that has seen him involved in vehicle crash testing, emissions optimisation, fuel economy, electrification and, most recently, clean air strategy and government policy. He is convinced that improving transport safety and air quality must increasingly go hand in hand. And he believes that much can be done

A water tight policy is nothing without day-to-day adherence. Ensuring this adherence can become a real burden; a cycle of enforcement and consequence. This can result in a negative experience for everyone involved, but it doesn’t have to be like that. Like building a house, you’ve got to do the ground work first, a solid

A decade or so ago – before the new dawn ushered in by telematics – everything looked very different indeed in the Iron Mountain transport world. It was almost impossible keeping tabs on the information and business storage firm’s fleet of vehicles – let alone its drivers – and knowing where to apportion blame when

Haulage companies across the UK are being urged to enrol their drivers on to a smart motorway driving course offered by Highways England. Aimed at commercial and haulage drivers, the eight-hour, single-day training session has been designed by Highways England in conjunction with the Freight Transport Association (FTA) to provide practical, relevant training to drivers

One in three drivers report feeling stressed behind the wheel leaving them prone to making irrational decisions and suffering road rage. Employers should therefore be thinking about their drivers’ welfare and wellbeing whilst they are driving for work. Behavioural factors that can affect employees driving could be aggression, attitude to risk, driving excitement, ineffective coping strategy,

Matthew Avery joined Thatcham Research 30 years ago, and although his focus has always been on crash safety, he’s been involved with the introduction of technology that once, motorists could only have dreamed of. Key areas he’s been closely involved with include the development of ESC safety standards for Euro NCAP, the first assessments of