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
When it comes to robust and compliant fleet management, nothing should be given greater priority than the focus you allocate to driver safety. The Australasian Fleet Managers Assoc is a valuable resource for all vehicle operators and publish widely on … Read More
Fleet accident management is a service that first made its debut in the 80’s, then took another 20 years to launch in New Zealand courtesy of Crash Management. Prior to that time, drivers were on their own to report accidents, … Read More
FleetNews UK interviews some of the old-timers and hears about paper service schedules taped together and stuck to the wall, the early DOS computer programmes that took 60 seconds to complete a transaction, and a driver the locked his keys … 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
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
Our friends as the Australasian Fleet Managers’ Association have provided a timely reminder and overview of modern fleet management Health & Safety. Copied here for your convenience: Fleet managers are an integral part of an organisation, irrespective of the internally or externally operated … Read More
Windscreen claims 101: Did you know that a 15mm windscreen chip in the driver’s sight-line renders the vehicle unfit for the road and is a WOF fail? An expired Warrant of Fitness will result in a traffic infringement and … Read More