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Feb

27

Is your vehicle roadworthy?

By Fleet Risk Consultants

Are you sure?

Did you check it?

And when was that exactly?

Can you prove that?

If you can’t answer the above questions to the satisfaction of the Police and/or the Health and Safety Executive then you may well be heading for some costly trouble.

Here in the United Kingdom you have a legal requirement …

Feb

26

Corporate Manslaughter Legislation – A warning to farmers

By Fleet Risk Consultants

The Corporate Manslaughter Legislation will also have an effect on the farming community, especially those larger farming businesses who employ a large number of staff.  These farming businesses should be ensuring that they have the correct systems in place to ensure that their employees and the general public are protected …

Feb

25

Could your photograph get you into trouble?

By Fleet Risk Consultants

When the new style driving licences were introduced back in 1998 they came with a requirement for a photograph to be supplied to the DVLA, the problem is that the photograph is only legally valid for 10 years.

In reality this means that you are required by The Driving Licence (Community …

Feb

24

Corporate Manslaughter Legislation can be tiring.

By Fleet Risk Consultants

Do you, or more importantly your employees, know the legal minimum for tread depth for cars and vans is currently 1.6mm of tread across the central three quarters of the tyre.  For HGV’s the minimum tread depth is 1mm in the grooves of the tread pattern throughout a continuous band …

Feb

24

School Minibuses and Tachographs

By Fleet Risk Consultants

This week has been a rather interesting one from the perspective of how the users of school minibuses should manage the use of the minibus.  Some minibus uses are governed by the EU Drivers’ Hours and Tachograph Regulations, which can involve the use of tachograph equipment and all the issues …