Even hiring vehicles can be a potential headache

By Fleet Risk Consultants

Chris Lodge of ASB-Aspire has put together this article that we feel you will find useful.

Be very careful what you sign up to if end up in a hired or “courtesy” vehicle whether on a credit hire basis or if provided by your own insurers.

Many hire companies will attempt to …

Are you using vehicles as part of your sales startegy?

By Fleet Risk Consultants

We all know that vehicles are, after salaries, the biggest expense for most businesses and as such they can have a big effect on the profitability of that business, but did you know that the vehicles can have other more subtle effects too?

What image do your vehicles portray to your …

Risk Management – A level headed look at level crossings

By Fleet Risk Consultants

From a Risk Management perspective, I am struggling with the mentality of some road users on this one, so I shall try and be patient and level headed in this article.

The railways take care to ensure that the road users get timely warnings about trains approaching the Level Crossings where …

Accident Investigation – It’s not about blame, it’s all about cause

By Fleet Risk Consultants

All businesses should be doing their own accident investigations because they have to understand what caused the collision, if they are going to avoid the same thing happening again.  You cannot get your insurance company to do this or you because they are only interested in blame rather than cause, …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …