The Highways England Commercial Vehicle Incident Prevention Team is collaborating on a range of intiatives to improve safety for drivers and operators of commercial vehicles as well as other road users.
This suite of case studies includes:
- Operation Tramline – Targeting dangerous driver behaviour
- Driver fatigue – Roadside checks of drivers’ hours
- Improving commercial vehicle load security
- Highways England joint working with DVSA
- Driving in the UK – Providing information to overseas commercial vehicle drivers
- Load security for private motorists
- Prevention of diesel spillages
- Tyre technology and tyre debris
- Highways England DVSA data sharing partnership
- Highways England/DVSA joint working at Dartford
- Virtual reality blind spots smartphone app
- Joint working with Motorway Buddy
- North west commercial vehicle unit research pilot
- Prevention of HGV fires