A campaign has been launched that aims to reduce the number of deaths and serious injuries on UK roads by calling for fast-tracked medical treatment for vocational drivers who have the condition obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome (OSAS).
The campaign has been launched by the OSA Partnership Group, a collective set up to raise awareness of the condition. It has called on the Department of Health to issue guidance to Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs), hospitals and GPs to expedite treatment of vocational drivers with OSAS to enable driving again within a maximum of four weeks following first referral.
Haulier John Hackling (Transport) has improved its compliance management and created administrative efficiencies from the introduction of Jaama’s multi award-winning Key2Vehicle Management software.
Headquartered in Bourton-on-the-Water, Gloucestershire, the near 50-year-old business, which combines flexible local haulage with cost-effective nationwide trunking, European distribution services and fully integrated transport logistics, previously relied on a complex spreadsheet system to manage vehicles, drivers and service, maintenance and repair work through its own workshops.
Company drivers accrued £9.42 million in motoring-related fines and penalties in 2014 compared to £8.08 million during the previous year, according to the annual Company Driver Fines and Penalties survey from Lex Autolease. The data, which is compiled from a fleet of 290,000 vehicles, revealed that company drivers committed 20,525 more offences in 2014 compared […]
The Government is changing the qualifying criteria for cars to be eligible for purchasing support under its ultra low emission vehicle plug-in grant scheme. The Department says the criteria is changing to take account of rapidly developing technology, and the growing range of ultra low emission vehicles on the market – 25 cars with a […]
The new drug driving law comes into play on the 2nd March in England and Wales. It includes prescription drugs however as long as you are following the advice of a healthcare professional and your driving isn’t impaired you should be fine The new law sets limits at very low levels for eight drugs commonly […]
The government has announced a rise in road casualties, with 24,360 people killed or seriously injured in the year ending September 2014, a 4% increase on the previous year. There was a 1% rise in deaths over the same period, which saw a 2% growth in traffic. In total there were 192,910 reported road […]
A new campaign to remind drivers taking medicines to check with their doctor or pharmacist before getting behind the wheel has been launched by the Department for Transport.
It comes ahead of the 2nd March introduction of new drug-drive legislation in England and Wales.
The Government says that so long as drivers follow the advice of a healthcare professional and their driving isn’t impaired they can continue to drive as usual and aren’t at risk of arrest.
Driverless cars, or “fully autonomous” vehicles could be on the UK’s roads in the late 2020s, according to a Government report.
However, before technology reaches that stage, vehicles will become available which can undertake increasingly large proportions of journeys autonomously – known as “high automation” – while still requiring that a driver takes manual control some of the time.
That’s the conclusion of a Department for Transport review, carried out over the past six months, which considered the best and safest ways to trial automated vehicles where an individual is ready to take control of the car if necessary.
On Sunday it became an offence punishable with a prison sentence of up to 12 months for phoning, texting or accessing the web while driving – but only if you live in Singapore…read more