road risk

Vehicle Security & your fleet – are you covering all the bases?

By |2025-04-29T21:21:56+01:00April 29th, 2025|DfBB Articles, News|

This month’s article on Vehicle Security, for those who manage drivers, comes to us from Laura Moran, Managing Director, TVL Group Vehicle Security - your fleet With vehicle crime and tool theft an ever-increasing scourge across the country, it has never been more important to maintain best practice when it comes to fleet security.

Vehicle Safety – Safer Vans and Vehicle Safety Ratings

By |2025-05-12T14:26:13+01:00April 28th, 2025|DfBB Articles, News|

This month’s article on Vehicle Security, for those who manage drivers, comes to us from Matthew Avery, Director of Strategic Development at Euro NCAP Vehicle Safety - your fleet COVID – remember that? It has made a huge impact on the way we live and work, and one such change has been the rise

Distracted Driving – Some Legal Insights

By |2025-03-12T12:05:46+00:00February 10th, 2025|DfBB Articles, News|

This month’s legal insight on Driver Distraction, for those who manage drivers, comes to us from Mike Hayward of Woodfines Solicitors. Distracted Driving - steering you in the right direction.   Leaving aside the ongoing development of autonomous vehicles, cars, vans, lorries and buses still have a big round instrument fitted - most commonly called

The business benefits of managing road risk

By |2024-05-29T11:10:41+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 |2024-05-29T12:43:28+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. IS YOUR DRIVING FOR WORK POLICY COMPLIANT? Other Road Users The most recent road traffic provisional estimates for the Department for Transport (published December 2022) show motor vehicles

Other Road Users – your drivers & your duty of care

By |2024-05-29T13:18:25+01:00August 1st, 2023|DfBB Articles, News|

Other Road Users - sharing space on the roads Commercial vehicle drivers have an obligation to be careful of the safety of other road users and are now held to a higher standard in law. Recent changes to the Highway Code created a hierarchy of road users, with those who could do the most

Safe loading – a legal update to help take a load off your mind

By |2025-03-12T12:04:06+00:00July 7th, 2023|DfBB Articles, News|

Safe loading - a legal update Updated 28th February 2025 This safe loading legal update is brought to you by Mike Hayward, Partner, Road Transport, Crime & Regulatory at Woodfines. There are many law enforcement procedures relating to the safe loading of your vehicles, and it’s important to note that policy and law are

Drug screening – is it part of your driving for work policy?

By |2024-11-28T21:22:16+00:00July 4th, 2023|DfBB Articles, News|

Drug screening - do you have a process in place? Are you carrying out effective drug screening within your organisation? Following on from our Drug Driving Session at the Health and Safety Event, an official report has been published by the National Police Chiefs Council (NPCC), advising that there are substantially more drug drivers

Safe loading – who’s responsible for securing your loads?

By |2024-05-29T13:41:41+01:00July 1st, 2023|DfBB Articles, News|

In 2022, over 62,000 items fell off vehicles onto the strategic road network (SRN). They included mattresses, sheds, ratchet straps and loads of timber. This flying and messy debris is a two-foldhazard – it can strike other vehicles or road users when it leaves the vehicle,and it presents an obstruction of the road which

Driving vehicles you don’t own – reducing the risks

By |2024-05-29T14:02:47+01:00June 23rd, 2023|DfBB Articles, News|

Research Garage is a dealership specialising in Abarth, Alfa Romeo, Fiat, Jeep and Fiat Professional. It has two sites at Hinckley and Nuneaton, and while its own-use vehicles are minimal, its technicians and sales people are responsible for driving client cars and taking vehicles for test drives. It also owns Centurion Plant Hire, supplying

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