by Sarah Clements | Sep 26, 2017 | Commercial vehicle insurance, Fleet management, Transport & logistics
Recent news suggests that driverless car trials could start on UK motorways as soon as 2019, with the tests likely to focus on fleets of vehicles, rather than just single tests. This will allow the cars to communicate with each other about potential hazards, involving...
by Sarah Clements | Sep 22, 2017 | Business insurance, Vaping insurance
During October the government run the ‘Stoptober’ campaign to encourage people to give up smoking. This year for the first time it is promoting e-cigarettes as a viable way of quitting. It comes after e-cigarettes proved the most popular tool for quitting during last...
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...
