Electric vehicles and hybrids are accelerating the increasing complexity of motor vehicle construction and technology including safety systems. This has developed rapidly in the last few years and imposes enormous challenges on the electric vehicle collision repair capability, and is … Read More
Rising costs, new technologies and often confusing regulations means fleet management services for company vehicles has never been more challenging. Not surprisingly, businesses of all sizes now outsource the services of fleet management specialists. These are challenging times for the … Read More
It doesn’t matter what industry you’re in, reducing costs is a mind-numbing battle field for any business owner. For commercial fleet management, managing costs is the number one challenge faced daily – and the constant budget restraints don’t help either. … Read More
The Australasian Fleet Managers Assoc tell us that fleet safety managers have experienced massive change over the past few years and that with fleets of all sizes now investing heavily in new technology, 2018 is set to be another year … Read More
There has been a lot of coverage on vehicle accident health & safety prosecution s recently but a serious disconnect in Health & Safety thinking in New Zealand still remains, between a work accident in a factory or construction zone … Read More
The motor vehicle environment is changing faster now than in any previous time. They’ve never been safer, cheaper, more sophisticated, or had as many fuel options. Self-driving car & truck technology is here, as are full electric vehicles. Shared mbility is … Read More
A woman who spent 12 hours trapped in her freezing car as it lay meters from the road near Taumaranui, would have died from hypothermia if she had been left there for another hour – potentially a serious driver health … Read More
New Zealand’s often overlooked road crash statistics received more profile this week including WorkSafe’s CEO Nicole Rosie in the Herald Business Section and the leading H&S publication SafeGuard magazine. Both highlight that car accidents are a leading cause of work-place … Read More
The company fleet driving hazard is in the media again today, with WorkSafe CEO Nicole Rosie highlighting driver risk in the Herald Business Section, p7. Ms Rosie states that New Zealand’s Health & Safety performance is one of the worst … Read More
A recent European study identified that the driver accounts for 20% of Total Cost of Ownership – for bad drivers, this goes up to 40%. That is a stark reminder of the importance of driver behaviour with regard to cost … Read More