Safe driving requires safe vehicles. Most fleet operators and private motorists understand the critical need to maintain vehicles in good working order. However, sometimes this is left to the annual WOF check as the standard – and that’s not good … Read More
Managing a mobile work-force is a 24/7 job! It’s a full time role when the fleet runs like clock-work, when something goes wrong it can be an emergency situation – if catastrophe strikes after hours, it can be a crisis. … Read More
The NZ Herald reported today on the ’Vision Zero’ programme, it’s proven internationally successful in lowering alarming number of road deaths. This could be a game changer for NZ which has one of the highest car accident rates in the … 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
Loosely translated from the French, the caption on the bus reads ‘the two fingers of death’ – oh the irony. Avoid driver distraction they say, and absolutely don’t text while driving. Yet it is common, and results in a high proportion … Read More
There were over 200,000 road accident injuries in NZ last year and almost 300 fatalities – a serious vehicle Health & Safety concern! This came at a total economic and social cost of $4Billion dollars of which only around 5% … Read More
Crash Management’s incident data reporting delivers insight into vehicle accident causes and supports employers to ensure they are fleet fit and comply with vehicle health & safety obligations in regard to ‘the vehicle as a workplace’. This detailed information is … Read More
Every day we see the results of car accidents and car insurance claims. Fortunately most are urban and/or relatively minor, but a proportion are neither – they’re open-road and/or high impact crashes. Sometimes this involves serious injury for the driver … Read More
Smart technology including GPS improves driver and fleet safety, reduces accidents, & improves fleet utilisation along with financial results. The Australian Fleet Managers Association (AFMA) covers the subject well this month, describing the journey from the original ‘dot on a map’ GPS … Read More
Company Vehicle magazine, August issue, page 23 All organisations operate vehicles, whether it’s a sole trader’s van or New Zealand’s largest nationwide fleets. Business is mobility dependant, and you can’t do your job without your cars, vans, and trucks on … Read More