The Government’s bid to introduce a new drug-drive limit has moved a step closer with eight general prescription and eight illicit drugs added into new regulations that will come in to force in autumn 2014.
The new rules, which follow two public consultations, mean it will be an offence to be over the generally prescribed limits for each drug and drive a vehicle, as it is with drink-driving.
The limits to be included in the new regulations are not set at zero as drugs taken for medical conditions can be absorbed in the body to produce trace effects.
It was also important, said the Government, to recognise that different drugs are broken down at different speeds and that was reflected in the disparities between the limits.
Jaama celebrates its 10th anniversary in 2014 and is recognised as the most recommended provider of fleet and asset management software in the UK.
The best fleet software – for the sixth successive year in 2014 Jaama achieved Fleet News Reader Recommended status – can only be judged on innovation, technology platform, investment, ease of use and ultimately success and customer recommendation.
In each area Jaama wins with a programme of innovative fleet management and compliance solutions along with a record of continuous investment in technology that to date averages around £1 million per year across the company’s history.
Key2 technology is at the core of Jaama’s online software solutions for fleet operators and rental and leasing companies and critically this technology has the capability to interface with existing software systems used by finance, HR and procurement departments as well as systems operated by third parties including the DVLA and HM Revenue and Customs.
Leading fleet and asset management software company Jaama has further boosted its major account management team with the appointment of Paddy Chadderton.
A graduate with a 16-year motor industry career behind him, Paddy has been appointed a key account manager with responsibility for managing Jaama’s ever-expanding customer portfolio of leading private and public sector fleets and contract hire and leasing companies.
Jaama continues to further increase advancements in functionality of its core web-based Key2 software system and Paddy will be working closely with major account customers to ensure that they realise the full potential of their systems.
Jaama’s industry-leading Key2 Rental Management software enjoyed a lot of interest from plant and tool hire businesses at this year’s Executive Hire Show.
The company exhibited for the third consecutive year at the Show, held last month at the Ricoh Arena, Coventry. Throughout the two-day event, Jaama demonstrated the capability of its functionally rich Key2 Rental Management software which provides plant and tool hire operators with the right tools to successfully manage their business.
Jaama managing director Martin Evans said: “With constantly squeezed margins, an increasing number of plant and tool hire companies are realising that good software can bring real benefits.
Tough new carbon dioxide (CO2) emission targets have been approved by the European Parliament, but their introduction has been delayed by a year amid pressure from German vehicle manufacturers. The European Commission has welcomed the European Parliament’s endorsement of the new target of 95 g/km of CO2 in 2021 following lobbying by German car manufacturers. […]
Demand for defleeted vans is currently so high that models at even seven years old are proving to be hugely sought after, according to Manheim. It is, says the auction giant, evidence of the most sizeable shift towards older vans seen in the used market since the company started reporting data in 2006. Matthew Davock, […]
A Preston-based building firm has been fined £130,000 following the death of a worker after he was involved in a crash with a reversing van outside a cinema.
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) prosecuted EMC Contracts Ltd after father-of-one Carl Green was struck by a reversing van in a paved area outside the entrance to the Odeon Cinema in Ashton-on-Ribble in July 2010.
The 45-year-old painter from Chorley had been working on a project to fit out a new coffee shop in the cinema when the incident happened.
Ambitious Government plans to make the UK the world leader in electric car adoption could be hampered by its decision to increase company car benefit-in-kind tax on those vehicles by 500% in 2015/16 with a further rise due in 2016/17. Zero emission electric vehicles are currently 0% rated for company car benefit-in-kind tax, but fleet-decision-makers’ […]
Employees driving vehicles provided through a salary sacrifice scheme have reduced their motoring carbon footprint by up to 42%, it is claimed. UK salary sacrifice car provider Fleet Evolution conducted research amongst its client base to arrive at the figure, comparing the carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions of a customer’s car it provided with the one […]