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“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...
What impact could Brexit have on the Haulage Industry?
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...
Telematics: How could it benefit your business?
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...
Is this the right time to assess your fleet insurance provider?
At Anthony Jones, we pride ourselves on being experts in delivering the right solution to protect your business, so if you’re in the transport and logistics industry or run a fleet of vehicles there is no better place to come for your insurance needs. And with...
Cybercrime and why it matters to your business
Following the recent spate of high profile cyber-attacks involving the NHS and Spanish telecom giant Telefonica, who own O2, (amongst others) the threat of cybercrime is more apparent than ever. So, what is Cybercrime? Cybercrime can be defined simply as crime that...
Mobile phone use behind the wheel still high despite new penalties
In March 2017 the government introduced harsher penalties for those caught using a mobile phone whilst driving in a bid to crackdown further on dangerous driving behaviour. The new penalties saw those previously in place doubled; with 6 points and a £200 fine now...
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