June 2025

Each month we will be sharing our monthly Fleet Safety Focus Update with you so that, as part of your partner commitment, you can raise awareness among your colleagues, members, and supply chains in your internal and external communications, blogs, social posts, emails and newsletters.

You can signpost this month’s resources by sharing this link: Fleet Safety Focus – Driver Fatigue.

If you’d like to use our wording for your communications, please feel free to copy and paste the text below:

Copy and paste the text below and use in your emails and newsletters – please ensure the links in the copy are live and signposting to: https://www.drivingforbetterbusiness.com/fleet-safety-focus-monthly-update/driver-fatigue-tiredness/

Driving for Better Business – new fleet safety focus update

Driver Fatigue and Tiredness

Driving is for most people the most dangerous activity they can do.

We know that in the great majority of cases the initial outcome of a crash is around driver behaviour – and this can be caused by tiredness and fatigue, that can result in severe injury or worse, fatality.

It’s vital that as an organisation and as a manager or owner you are confident that your drivers are educated about fatigue, and that they are well rested and alert before starting their shift.

Fatigued drivers can face charges of death by dangerous driving or death by careless driving if involved in a fatal collision, leading to a prison sentence.

Tired drivers have poor coordination, poor reaction times, poor speed and lane discipline.

You have a duty of care to make sure every driver is fit to be behind the wheel.

So how confident are you that your drivers aren’t tired, and that fatigue is not affecting their driving?

Driving for Better Business in collaboration with the National Highways Commercial Vehicle Incident Prevention Team are providing free to access resources to help those who manage and employ drivers. Their Fleet Safety Focus Updates cover an important area every month. This month’s update focuses on Driver Fatigue and Tiredness. 

It includes a link to a file of useful resources for you to download and share with your drivers, including:

• an article to share with your drivers
• short safety messages to send to your drivers on their devices
• posters for your staff noticeboards
• information sheets from our Van Driver Toolkit and Car Driver Toolkit on Driver Fatigue.

Access this month’s Fleet Safety Focus and watch the video here.