21% of companies have no road safety policy

More than a fifth (21%) of UK companies whose employees drive for work purposes have no road safety policy in place, new research has revealed.   The study by TomTom Telematics among senior managers at 400 UK businesses found a further 4% did not know whether their organisation had a defined policy.   At the […]

Vehicle manufacturers obligation to provide data?

Around 70% of British Vehicle Rental and Leasing Association (BVRLA) members and fleet managers believe that vehicle manufacturers have an obligation to provide vehicle data, with 86% saying that they should not have to pay for it.
 
That was one of the headline conclusions from this year’s BVRLA Fleet Technology Survey with the organisation saying that the findings provided “much-needed insight into the sector’s views on connected vehicle and driver data”.
 
BVRLA members and fleet managers shared their views on data access, control, protection, sharing and cost. In a separate questionnaire, drivers were asked about their attitudes on sharing data.
 

Used car diesel values remain stable

Used car diesel values are remaining stable despite the so-called “demonisation of diesel” in the mainstream media, according to Andy Cutler, forecast editor at automotive industry providers and vehicle valuation experts Glass’s.   He said: “There has been a lot of negative press recently about how bad the diesel engine is, and how London in […]

Two killed in Seddon crane collapse

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 […]

40% of EU road deaths are work-related

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 […]

A safety culture is needed

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 […]

Fleet industry to undergo ‘Massive Revolution’

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.