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...
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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Road risk – just how prepared is your organisation?
A lorry driver was arrested yesterday on suspicion of dangerous driving, following a collision on the M6 motorway in which 5 people in a Nissan Micra died. Sadly, this leads us to pose the question, based on the number of fatalities,...
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