Two men have been killed on the site of a Seddon new-build care home development in Crewe after a tower crane toppled. Cheshire police said that they were called to a building site near Morrisons in Dunwoody Way in Crewe at 4.30pm on Wednesday 21st June 2017, following reports of a collapsed crane. Two site […]
Up to 40% of all road deaths in the European Union are work-related, a report by the European Transport Safety Council suggests. Analysing EU road safety data for 2016 – a year in which road traffic caused 25,671 fatalities throughout the EU – the ETSC points out that the drop in road deaths has […]
Businesses must create a cultural environment around occupational road risk management in which employees take responsibility for their actions and are empowered to make the decision not to drive if they don’t feel safe. Critically, there must be board-level buy-in to deliver an at-work driving safety culture across employers, but too often corporate attitudes […]
The fleet industry is set to undergo a “massive revolution” with the introduction of the connected car and the arrival of so-called ‘big data’, while contract hire companies will transform into analytics businesses that lease vehicles.
Those were two of the predictions at ACFO’s spring seminar, ‘Big Data – Big Seminar’, where around 80 fleet decision-makers, heard Nick Mitchell, Audi’s service and technical manager, say: “The arrival of the connected car will result in massive changes in the way people use cars and the application and provision of cars. Technology will be updated before our eyes. It is a massive revolution that we are about to go through and the pace of change will never be as slow again.”
For contract hire and leasing companies the arrival of ‘big data’ meant “transformational change”, with Craig McNaughton, corporate director, Lex Autolease, forecasting that it would enable them to “predict the future” in terms of vehicle service, maintenance and repairs and driver behaviours as a result of data analysis thus taking away fleet operation uncertainty.
Leading fleet and asset management software company Jaama has appointed Andy Bradley to the newly created key role of product manager.
The strategic role marries industry developments and initiatives that impact on fleet operations from the likes of government and its various agencies with the demands of customers using Jaama’s multi award-winning web-based Key2 system resulting in functionality enhances ensuring it remains at the cutting-edge of vehicle, driver and workshop management solutions.
Mr Bradley (34) has a 16-year business career behind him including a decade at Jaama spending four years in a customer support role and a further six years in project management.
Describing his role as being at the “hub of a product development wheel”, Mr Bradley is the conduit ensuring legislation and tax changes and new initiatives from Whitehall departments, the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency, the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) and HM Revenue and Customs result in Key2 enhancements.
Michelin has rejected calls from parts of the tyre industry for an increase in the minimum legal tread depth from 1.6mm to 3mm. The tyre manufacturer says there is “no link” between tread depths at 1.6mm and increasing accident rates. In addition, Michelin claims that changing tyres at 3mm would cost fleets money and […]
Jaama is continuing its drive into the plant, equipment and tool hire sector with its industry-leading management software system and will be highlighting the latest enhancements at Plantworx 2017 taking place from June 6-8 at Bruntingthorpe Proving Ground, Leicestershire.
The leading fleet and asset management software company significantly enhanced its Key2 Hire Management software system at the start of 2017 introducing a range of sophisticated new features to boost business and user efficiencies.
The enhancement was designed to widen the marketplace attractiveness of Key2 Hire Management as the functionality enables hire equipment outside of the pure plant sector to be managed, such as generators and toilets.
Employers must take action to change driver behaviour by providing additional education and training, after it was revealed that businesses faced a sharp rise in motoring fines in 2016. The number of penalties incurred by company car and van drivers rose 21% year-on-year to 238,833 – 40,647 more offences than in 2015 – according […]
Clear Air Zones are set to be introduced by local authorities that have breached air quality standards making them the central focus of the government’s long-awaited plans to reduce nitrogen dioxide (NO2) levels nationally. The government hopes that its proposals – the plans name around 80 local authorities with roads with concentrations of NO2 […]