by Sarah Clements | Sep 14, 2017 | Commercial vehicle insurance, Fleet management, Transport & logistics
In the Queen’s speech on 21 June, the government set out a framework for electric and driverless cars. This included plans to update motor insurance subjecting driverless vehicles to the same rules as normal ones. Many cars already have some semi-autonomous features,...
by Sarah Clements | Aug 29, 2017 | Commercial vehicle insurance, Fleet management, Transport & logistics
The government has announced that trials of driverless trucks in convoys of up to three vehicles, called platoons, are to start on UK motorways in 2018. With one driver in the lead vehicle, the other lorries in the fleet will be controlled by wireless technology,...
by Sarah Clements | Aug 16, 2017 | Business insurance, Vaping insurance
The popularity of vaping has been growing rapidly as the number and selection of products expands at a rate of knots. But this has led to a number of incidents where the lithium-ion batteries used to power the devices have failed. These battery failures have...
by Sarah Clements | Jul 7, 2017 | Commercial vehicle insurance, Fleet management, Transport & logistics
Brexit is a topic which doesn’t seem to have been far from our minds or the news since the landmark vote to leave the European Union in June 2016. Now with the process of leaving the EU having formally started and the recent general election creating further questions...
by Sarah Clements | Jun 28, 2017 | Commercial vehicle insurance, Fleet management, Transport & logistics
For the last few years, telematics technology has been at the forefront of discussions across both the privately owned and fleet vehicle industries, with consensus being that such technology provides. However, when we come to talking about installing a telematics...
