Jaama Support the DVSA Earned Recognition Pilot Scheme

Jaama, the UK’s leading fleet and asset management software solution provider, is supporting the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) on its Earned Recognition Scheme pilot and encouraging commercial vehicle, coach and bus operators to take part.
 
Operators that use Jaama’s multi award-winning Key2 web-based technology to record walk-around vehicle inspection checks, servicing and MoT information will be able to feed that information directly into the DVSA database.
 
The information recorded by transport managers will demonstrate to the DVSA that fleets are practicing robust and timely compliance methods.
 
The Earned Recognition Scheme initiative is designed to reduce the number of vehicle roadside checks by DVSA enforcement officers. Roadside checks typically have an impact on business efficiency because they inevitably result in delays and subsequent fines from customers for missing allocated time slots. Additionally, vehicle defects found in checks can result in legal action and trigger a chain reaction nightmare for bosses.
 

Jaama Helps HGV Fleets Control Emissions as DVSA Gets Tough

Jaama, the UK’s leading fleet and asset management software company, is helping truck fleets comply with tougher new roadside inspections by the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) that include an emissions check.
 
Jaama’s industry-leading, multi award-winning Key2 software enables users to record and store all emissions-related data and then use the information to trigger any rectification requirements.
 
The Department for Transport has said that from August, roadside lorry inspections will include an emissions check with DVSA enforcement officers particularly looking for use of so-called ‘cheat devices’.
 
Although rogue hauliers are the DVSA’s target, Jaama says that it is critical that all HGV fleets have a robust audit trail of emission data recorded at every vehicle check, including service schedules and MoTs.
 

21% of companies have no road safety policy

More than a fifth (21%) of UK companies whose employees drive for work purposes have no road safety policy in place, new research has revealed.   The study by TomTom Telematics among senior managers at 400 UK businesses found a further 4% did not know whether their organisation had a defined policy.   At the […]

Vehicle manufacturers obligation to provide data?

Around 70% of British Vehicle Rental and Leasing Association (BVRLA) members and fleet managers believe that vehicle manufacturers have an obligation to provide vehicle data, with 86% saying that they should not have to pay for it.
 
That was one of the headline conclusions from this year’s BVRLA Fleet Technology Survey with the organisation saying that the findings provided “much-needed insight into the sector’s views on connected vehicle and driver data”.
 
BVRLA members and fleet managers shared their views on data access, control, protection, sharing and cost. In a separate questionnaire, drivers were asked about their attitudes on sharing data.
 

Used car diesel values remain stable

Used car diesel values are remaining stable despite the so-called “demonisation of diesel” in the mainstream media, according to Andy Cutler, forecast editor at automotive industry providers and vehicle valuation experts Glass’s.   He said: “There has been a lot of negative press recently about how bad the diesel engine is, and how London in […]

Two killed in Seddon crane collapse

Two men have been killed on the site of a Seddon new-build care home development in Crewe after a tower crane toppled. Cheshire police said that they were called to a building site near Morrisons in Dunwoody Way in Crewe at 4.30pm on Wednesday 21st June 2017, following reports of a collapsed crane. Two site […]

40% of EU road deaths are work-related

Up to 40% of all road deaths in the European Union are work-related, a report by the European Transport Safety Council suggests.    Analysing EU road safety data for 2016 – a year in which road traffic caused 25,671 fatalities throughout the EU – the ETSC points out that the drop in road deaths has […]