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Little changes, change everything – National Highways Campaign

By |2024-03-27T12:50:41+00:00March 8th, 2024|DfBB Articles, News|

March has heralded the launch of a new National Highways campaign, which urges lane hoggers and tailgaters to change their driving style. Are your drivers guilty? A recent survey carried out by Ipsos UK on behalf of National Highways, showed that nearly a third (32%) of drivers admitted to lane hogging, while one in

Are your drivers fit to drive? Driver fitness and nutrition

By |2024-01-29T16:35:34+00:00January 29th, 2024|DfBB Articles, News|

Are all your drivers fit to drive, every time they drive for work? How are you managing driver health in your organisation? Fit driver, better business Physical fitness, good nutrition and proper hydration are all essential elements of ensuring that an individual is fit to drive. All the elements of driver well-being reinforce and

Fitness to Drive – managing driver health and your duty of care

By |2024-01-11T10:51:22+00:00January 9th, 2024|DfBB Articles, News|

Are all your drivers fit to drive, every time they drive for work? How are you managing driver health in your organisation? How do you manage fitness to drive? Driver health is an essential part of their fitness to drive – and as such, managing driver health is an essential part of the fleet

The roadworthiness challenge facing fleet managers

By |2024-01-08T10:28:44+00:00December 15th, 2023|DfBB Articles, News|

Implementing, monitoring and actioning driver pre-use checks keeps vehicles roadworthy, ensures compliance and reduces repair costs. Good to Go Safety Product manager,Graham Halliday, tells us why. Fleet managers - your roadworthiness challenge A recent global report generated from Good to Go Safety’s  TakeAIM pre-use check app, showed that one in a hundred fleet vehicles

Fleet maintenance – half of UK Tyres Deemed Borderline or Illegal

By |2023-12-18T13:51:54+00:00December 9th, 2023|DfBB Articles, News|

This week's article from Tyresafe outlines the concerning findings of their recent survey on the state of tyres in the UK. Over Half of UK Tyres Deemed Borderline or Illegal  Startling findings have emerged from a recent extensive study jointly conducted by TyreSafe, the UK's tyre safety charity, Imperial College, and National Highways, shedding

The CHAS Vehicle Compliance Scheme for fleet operators

By |2023-11-13T14:27:17+00:00November 1st, 2023|DfBB Articles, News|

Fleet operations - the key risks Standards and accreditations are an excellent way to improve, benchmark and ensure compliant vehicle operations - and compliant vehicle operations make for safer operations. The CHAS Vehicle Compliance Standard is a new way for fleet operators to align their fleet safety with their existing health and safety procedures.

Vehicle Roadworthiness – a legal update

By |2023-12-19T14:34:07+00:00October 1st, 2023|DfBB Articles, News|

This month's legal update on vehicle roadworthiness, for those who manage drivers, comes to us from Mike Hayward of Woodfines Solicitors. Fleet vehicle roadworthiness I'm constantly impressed by my neighbour who does a walk around check of his car before each and every journey. He checks the tyres, cleans his windscreen, and checks all

The business benefits of managing road risk

By |2023-08-23T18:22:36+01:00August 14th, 2023|DfBB Articles, News|

"Your clients are becoming more demanding.  Increasingly, the procurement process specifies a high standard of risk management. Put simply, if you don’t manage your drivers and vehicles, you won’t get the contract. It will go to your competitors." What are the business benefits of managing road risk well? If you manage drivers and their

Other Road Users – a legal update

By |2023-08-07T11:49:37+01:00August 3rd, 2023|DfBB Articles, News|

This month's legal update on other road users, for those who manage drivers, comes to us from Mike Hayward and Nathan Taylor-Allkins from Woodfines Solicitors. Other Road Users The most recent road traffic provisional estimates for the Department for Transport (published December 2022) show motor vehicles travelled 321.9 billion vehicle miles in Great Britain

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