Warwickshire Road Safety Partnership is partnering with Driving for Better Business (DfBB) to promote the free scheme to businesses across Warwickshire who have employees who drive for work. The new initiative was announced during the NPCC National Commercial Vehicle Campaign that starts this week 11 – 24 July 2022. The DfBB programme supports Warwickshire Police
Focusing on sustainability in your fleet can contribute to significant business benefits for your organisation including reductions in collisions and running costs. As part of our focus on sustainability this quarter, we’re sharing resources and stories from those with both experience and expertise in this area. Our partners Logistics UK and Webfleet have teamed
How do you ensure EV Roadworthiness? Walk-round checks and roadworthiness are as important with electric vehicles (EVs) as with any conventional driveline. One of the fleet benefits of electric vehicles, beyond the environmental aspects, is that they have much simpler internal designs. The drivetrain typically has fewer than 20 moving parts, compared to the
Driving electric vehicles Electric vehicles are how the UK will decarbonise most fleet activities, from grey fleet and company car pools, to light commercial vehicles and rigids. The only vehicle class where the jury is still out on the optimal technology is the articulated or trunking HGV, which might use hydrogen fuel cells, or
EV fleet risk management Lloyd Morgan Group is a fleet compliance solutions and training provider which has embraced the Driving for Better Business programme and aims to communicate its fleet safety messages to its customer base. Project manager Sam Law and MD Pete Thompson talk to us about risk management in the EV fleet.
Do your drivers have access to effective training? For organisations that employ drivers who tow vehicles or trailers as part of their driving for work activities, it’s essential that the managers of those drivers have access to the most up-to-date and effective training resources. New towing training from DVSA The DVSA has recently launched
Vans Today - free event for employers We are pleased to share details on an event running this week by our friends at Logistics UK - Vans Today is new name for Van Operational Briefings. In this event, they are providing essential briefings on compliance, driver wellbeing and the technological challenges for those who
Van Driver Toolkit - outstanding product of the year National Highways has won a coveted Fleet News Award for its Van Driver Toolkit, developed by the Commercial Vehicle Incident Prevention Team as part of the Driving for Better Business programme. It won ‘Outstanding Product of the Year 2022'- so, as April sees us focus
Advancing women in transport Driving for Better Business is marking International Women’s Day (8 March), launching a year of videos, podcasts and features, and teaming up with Women in Transport, a non-for-profit promotional, professional-development and support group. Women make up 47 per cent of the UK workforce yet remain underrepresented in the transport sector,
Van Safety - how do you know? Van Safety - here's a fact for you. Vans and LCVs are involved in more incidents resulting in the deaths of other road users than any other vehicle type per mile travelled. It's a shocking statistic, and when it comes to thinking about van safety, one which
