Road safety charity Brake has published a free resource specifically targeted at fleet managers to help them educate and improve safety for company drivers.
Briggs Equipment has launched a new asset management tool Speedshield that encourages best-practice driver behaviour by enforcing a tailored Health and Safety Executive (HSE) checklist on start-up.
Fewer fleet cars were ordered with Electronic Stability Control (ESC) than retail cars during the first half of 2009, despite a concerted campaign aimed at encouraging fleet managers to demand that all their cars have the safety technology be fitted.
New guidelines, which took effect from Monday (February 15), have set out the precise financial risk that fleets take if they have not done everything possible to minimise road risk.
Alliance Asset Management has experienced an upsurge in interest following a shortage of rental cars and an increase in accident damage caused by the wintry weather.
Paul Holmes, formerly Head of AA Risk Management Solutions, has been appointed director of the FleetSafe division of AA DriveTech, the AA Group brand responsible for all fleet-related training and driver risk management activities.
A major damage limitation exercise aimed at reassuring fleets has been launched by Toyota in the wake of a recall involving around 190,000 cars in Britain.
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