DriveTech is offering online essential driver training guide free to help during the COVID-19 pandemic
As part of DriveTech’s commitment to road safety and to help during the COVID-19 pandemic, they have created a new online course available free to any business operator where ‘other than normal business drivers’ are being called into essential action. The online course takes around 20 minutes to complete and helps provide a backdrop to why driving […]
Roger Bullivant Ltd gains massive benefit from Lightfoot
Using Lightfoot’s industry-leading driver rewards platform, Roger Bullivant Ltd has vastly reduced instances of poor or dangerous driving, significantly reduced vehicle idling by 7% and increased MPG by 8%, directly resulting in fuel savings worth thousands of pounds per month. Impressed by the impact that the in-cab device, app and rewards platform has had on its […]
GUEST BLOG: A momentary lapse in concentration
By Colin Paterson, Head of Marketing, DriveTech (UK) Limited I’m not entirely sure how I got there but on one of my frequent (and repetitive) motorway drives to and from work I got sandwiched between two larger vehicles on a stretch of ‘SMART’ motorway with four lanes running – one HGV in lane 1, a van […]
Commercial fleets in South West offered best practice training
New training course dates have been announced for fleet managers across the South West of England via a partnership between Venson Automotive Solutions and the Freight Transport Association (FTA). Taking place in September and October in Devon and Cornwall, the course will focus on achieving higher standards and best practice in managing light commercial vehicles. […]
Professional drivers in short supply, says IRU
The European road transport sector is facing the most acute professional driver shortage in decades. That’s the conclusion of a report by the International Road Transport Union (IRU), based on insight from stakeholders across the European transport industry and drawn from two surveys. The data revealed a visible driver shortage of 21% in the freight […]