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How safe is your business from cyber attack?
There have been a number of high profile cyber attacks reported in the media this year - shipping giant Maersk lost $200m in an attack; courier TNT was severely affected by the same incident; and the NHS has suffered a number of ransomware attacks – to name but a...
Cross party group of MPs to investigate e-cigarettes
The modern e-cigarette was first marketed in 2004 and, since then, there has been significant growth in the number of vapers globally. In the UK alone, there are now almost 3 million people who vape regularly, four times more than in 2012. This is a market that has...
The health hazards faced by fleet drivers
Over recent decades there has been a deterioration in working conditions for those driving delivery trucks and long distance vehicles for a living. This is largely due to an increase in traffic pollution, traffic congestion, noise pollution and the requirement to meet...
New sentencing guidelines – the fines are rolling in
We’ve written a couple of times about the new health and safety and corporate manslaughter sentencing guidelines that were introduced just over eighteen months ago. In our previous blogs we’ve talked about the guidelines in relation to fleet drivers and road traffic...
Tesla due to unveil new electric truck
In summary: New Tesla Semi electric truck due to be launched mid November Functional prototype has been developed and road tested Range is expected to be between 200 and 300 miles Won’t be fully autonomous from day one but expected to have innovative features Full...
“Tiredness can kill, take a break” – warning to drivers of driverless truck fleets
These signs are a familiar sight on our motorways. The focus and concentration required by drivers who sit behind the wheel for long periods of time can cause fatigue. In fact, across Europe, 20% of serious accidents are caused by drivers falling asleep at the wheel...
Putting telematics at the core of an organisation’s fleet management policy
We’ve written about telematics before but, given its increasingly important role in fleet management, we make no apology for covering this topic again now. With telematics technology constantly developing and costs decreasing, more and more companies are taking the...
Driverless Cars: What does the future hold?
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...
E-cigarettes key to giving up smoking – IBVTA partner Public Health England on Stoptober campaign
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...
Driverless vehicles on our roads becoming a reality for the near future
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,...
Trials of driverless truck fleets to start on UK motorways
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,...
Electronic Cigarette and Vaping Products – Fires and Overheating
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...
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