Report reveals hidden diabetes crisis among UK commercial drivers
A new report launched today exposes a major, under-recognised health and safety crisis facing the UK’s commercial road transport industry: the unchecked rise of type 2 diabetes among professional drivers. Hiding in Plain Sight: The UK Diabetes Crisis – A Call to Action to the Road Transport Sector, developed by the Diabetes Safety Organisation in partnership […]
Samsara joins Driving for Better Business
Samsara, pioneer of the Connected Operations® Platform, has joined forces with Driving for Better Business, a free-to-access business engagement programme from National Highways, to improve road safety and help organisations better manage fleet risk. Driving for Better Business aims to improve work-related road safety by promoting good risk management practices and demonstrating the business benefits of managing […]
Driving for Better Business launches monthly Fleet Focus guides
The National Highways business engagement programme Driving for Better Business is launching a new range of free monthly resources for fleet managers to share with their drivers. The series starts with Vehicle Roadworthiness, to help managers, supervisors and everyone else involved to understand their responsibilities. “There are many vehicles on our roads that are simply […]
One in four company drivers “at risk from employers’ failures to protect them”
Driving for Better Business have created an interactive Driving for Work Policy Builder to help fleet-using companies better address their legal responsibilities. More than a quarter of UK firms recently surveyed*, whose employees drive for work, have no policy, and more than a quarter have not reviewed their policy in the past three years. Driving […]
Mineral Products Association joins Driving for Better Business
The Mineral Products Association (MPA) has partnered with National Highways’ Driving for Better Business (DfBB) scheme, reinforcing the industry’s ongoing commitments to road safety. The move means that the MPA – whose members collectively transport more than one million tonnes of construction materials every day – joins a growing number of UK organisations taking the […]
Highways Heroes and Driving for Better Business launch White Knight Award
Highways Heroes has announced a new award for this year’s ceremony, the White Knight Award Delivered in partnership with Driving for Better Business the award will be given to a non supply chain partner whose actions had an undoubted impact. So what is meant by a White Knight and who should enter? In simple terms, […]
National Highways launches mobile tyre-management station
One in five breakdowns on the strategic road network (SRN) is caused by tyre failure: that’s 50,000 tyre-related breakdowns every year, and 30% of those involve commercial vehicles. Therefore National Highways has invested in the Mobile Tyre Safety Station which it has been lending to operators of major fleets. National Highways has analysed tyre breakdowns […]
AI technology secures top risk management award for VisionTrack
Video telematics specialist VisionTrack has won a prestigious What Van? Award for the Risk Management category, sponsored by Driving for Better Business. Among its many industry-leading innovations, VisionTrack has launched Notification, Analysis and Risk Assessment (NARA), an AI-powered post-analysis solution that is changing how vehicle camera footage is assessed and collisions detected. It automatically removes […]
Driving for Better Business gives tips on dangerous goods transport
Simon Turner, Campaign Manager at Driving for Better Business has issued a blog post about ensuring safety for dangerous goods transport that we thought we’d share here on Highways News. Hauliers carrying dangerous goods or chemicals are usually very aware of their legal requirements – but it’s surprising how easily the basics can be missed. […]
Teletrac Navman in new safety initiative
Global telematics technology company Teletrac Navman has joined forces with Driving for Better Business – a government-backed National Highways scheme to improve awareness of work-related road risk, employers’ duty of care and employees’ responsibilities. They say that, by becoming delivery partners, Teletrac Navman and Driving for Better Business will work together to help create and […]