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Electronic stability control (ESC) is billed by road safety experts as the most significant life-saving advance since the seat belt - and increasingly fleet managers are waking up to its crash avoidance potential.
Telford-based Kaba Door Systems, has taken the industry-leading step to ban any vehicle without ESC from being purchased...
M&G Vehicle Hire Ltd., a subsidiary of Northgate plc., has become the latest vehicle rental company to sign up as a business champion for the government backed Driving for Better Business programme managed by RoadSafe.
M&G Vehicle Hire Ltd. is based in Hull, Chesterfield, Doncaster, Grimsby, Scunthorpe and Sheffield.Its primary target is the commercial vehicle hire market in South and East Yorkshire as well as North Lincolnshire.But its modern fleet of almost 5700 vehicles is available to the market throughout the United Kingdom from these 6 sites...
Brewer Greene King cut its road crash costs by more than £150,000 in 2006/7 as its in-house developed safe driving initiative continued to pay dividends.
In the last four years more than 500 members of staff – HGV, LGV and company car drivers as well as occasional pool car drivers and employees who drive their own car on business - have all completed individual...
RoadSafe is urging visitors to this year’s British International Motor Show to seek out the Department for Transport’s ACT ON CO2 stand in the Greener Driving Pavilion, where DfT staff will be on hand to offer advice on how fuel efficient driving and car choice can save money and reduce CO2...
HRH Prince Michael of Kent GCVO, the patron of RoadSafe, attended a showcase event for the government backed Driving for Better Business programme at Cranfield University today (11th June 2008). The Prince presented certificates to the first group of business ‘champions’...
Northgate plc, quoted on the London Stock Exchange and a FTSE 250 company, has become the latest vehicle rental company to sign up as a business champion of the government backed Driving for Better Business programme managed by RoadSafe...
RoadSafe will be promoting the successful Driving for Better Business programme on their stand (M65) at the up-coming Fleet Business Show at Business Design Centre, Islington 29th – 30th April...
YourFleet, Britain’s 5
th largest vehicle management and leasing broker, has become the latest organisation to sign up as a business champion of the government backed Driving for Better Business programme managed by RoadSafe...
Safety-focused Kwik-Fit Fleet, Britain’s largest independent fast-fit company, is launching a major occupational road risk management survey in conjunction with RoadSafe, which is managing the Government’s ‘Driving for Better Business’ programme...
Growing recognition of the importance of the government backed Driving for Better Business programme has led Wolseley to support the initiative by becoming a Business Champion...
LeasePlan, the world’s largest vehicle management and leasing provider, has become the latest leasing company to sign up as a business champion of the government backed Driving for Better Business programme managed by RoadSafe...
Driving for Better Business to focus on broadening its network by engaging with the vehicle leasing industry. Major leasing and fleet companies are being encouraged to support the government backed programme, Driving for Better Business, by signing up for a free monthly eNewsletter which will provide useful, and up-to-date information on subjects related to safer driving for work. By registering for the newsletter, companies will become part of the Driving for Better Business network and join a host of companies and ‘Business Champions’ committed to work related road safety. This network already includes Arval and YourFleet, as well as Tesco.com, BT and T-Mobile, amongst others...
A raft of expert advice on best practice occupational road risk management will be available at the 2008 Fleet Business Show, which is being held on April 29 and 30 in London, and RoadSafe will be one of the leading exhibitors...
This year, Centrica, one of DfBB's Business Champions, is embracing Road Safety Week and encouraging its entire workforce to drive safely, through a range of initiatives...
Government statistics just published have revealed that 35% of fatal road accidents involve loss of vehicle control. According to RoadSafe, the road safety partnership of leading motor and transport companies, this figure could be dramatically reduced if all vehicles were fitted with stability control technology...
“Driving for Better Business” is a government backed business initiative aimed at reducing the number of deaths and injuries on the roads whilst driving on business...
RoadSafe, the road safety partnership of leading companies in the motor and transport industries, has unveiled the latest government-led road safety scheme: the ‘Driving for Better Business’ safety initiative, part of the government backed ‘Driving for Work Business Champions Programme’ launched at the CV Show earlier this year...
Life-saving technology could help reduce 4,000 deaths and 100,000 injuries. RoadSafe, the road safety partnership of leading companies in the motor and transport industries, has welcomed the launch of the “Choose ESC!” campaign as a positive contribution to reducing the toll of vehicle deaths and serious injuries across the roads of Europe...
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