Businesses must create a cultural environment around occupational road risk management in which employees take responsibility for their actions and are empowered to make the decision not to drive if they don’t feel safe. Critically, there must be board-level buy-in to deliver an at-work driving safety culture across employers, but too often corporate attitudes […]
The fleet industry is set to undergo a “massive revolution” with the introduction of the connected car and the arrival of so-called ‘big data’, while contract hire companies will transform into analytics businesses that lease vehicles.
Those were two of the predictions at ACFO’s spring seminar, ‘Big Data – Big Seminar’, where around 80 fleet decision-makers, heard Nick Mitchell, Audi’s service and technical manager, say: “The arrival of the connected car will result in massive changes in the way people use cars and the application and provision of cars. Technology will be updated before our eyes. It is a massive revolution that we are about to go through and the pace of change will never be as slow again.”
For contract hire and leasing companies the arrival of ‘big data’ meant “transformational change”, with Craig McNaughton, corporate director, Lex Autolease, forecasting that it would enable them to “predict the future” in terms of vehicle service, maintenance and repairs and driver behaviours as a result of data analysis thus taking away fleet operation uncertainty.
Leading fleet and asset management software company Jaama has appointed Andy Bradley to the newly created key role of product manager.
The strategic role marries industry developments and initiatives that impact on fleet operations from the likes of government and its various agencies with the demands of customers using Jaama’s multi award-winning web-based Key2 system resulting in functionality enhances ensuring it remains at the cutting-edge of vehicle, driver and workshop management solutions.
Mr Bradley (34) has a 16-year business career behind him including a decade at Jaama spending four years in a customer support role and a further six years in project management.
Describing his role as being at the “hub of a product development wheel”, Mr Bradley is the conduit ensuring legislation and tax changes and new initiatives from Whitehall departments, the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency, the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) and HM Revenue and Customs result in Key2 enhancements.
Michelin has rejected calls from parts of the tyre industry for an increase in the minimum legal tread depth from 1.6mm to 3mm. The tyre manufacturer says there is “no link” between tread depths at 1.6mm and increasing accident rates. In addition, Michelin claims that changing tyres at 3mm would cost fleets money and […]
Jaama is continuing its drive into the plant, equipment and tool hire sector with its industry-leading management software system and will be highlighting the latest enhancements at Plantworx 2017 taking place from June 6-8 at Bruntingthorpe Proving Ground, Leicestershire.
The leading fleet and asset management software company significantly enhanced its Key2 Hire Management software system at the start of 2017 introducing a range of sophisticated new features to boost business and user efficiencies.
The enhancement was designed to widen the marketplace attractiveness of Key2 Hire Management as the functionality enables hire equipment outside of the pure plant sector to be managed, such as generators and toilets.
Employers must take action to change driver behaviour by providing additional education and training, after it was revealed that businesses faced a sharp rise in motoring fines in 2016. The number of penalties incurred by company car and van drivers rose 21% year-on-year to 238,833 – 40,647 more offences than in 2015 – according […]
Clear Air Zones are set to be introduced by local authorities that have breached air quality standards making them the central focus of the government’s long-awaited plans to reduce nitrogen dioxide (NO2) levels nationally. The government hopes that its proposals – the plans name around 80 local authorities with roads with concentrations of NO2 […]
Jaama, the UK’s leading fleet industry asset management software system provider, is to further increase its supply of Key2 into the commercial vehicle sector following business success at the recent Commercial Vehicle Show.
Jaama exhibited its multi award-winning web-based vehicle, driver and workshop management solution Key2 at the Show in April.
New business leads secured at the event held at NEC in Birmingham, have triggered a series of meetings with commercial vehicle fleet, transport and workshop managers.
Jaama managing director Martin Evans said: “The Commercial Vehicle Show has once again proved to be a hot bed of lead generation for Jaama. Our sales team is now busy following up leads and I am confident that many of those meetings will translate into companies with commercial vehicle fleets and operating their own workshops implementing Key2 to drive forward business efficiencies.”
Jaama, an Associate member of the Fleet Operator Recognition Scheme (FORS) and a partner to the Freight Transport Association’s Van Excellence scheme, is firmly focused on helping fleets achieve compliance best practice through implementation of Key2.
Many Jaama customers have already achieved FORS bronze, silver or gold accreditation and are also Van Excellence accredited.
UK organisations collectively managing more than 800,000 vehicles, company car and commercial vehicle drivers and own-vehicle drivers and their own workshops currently use Key2 and that number is already significantly growing in 2017.
New sentencing guidelines for magistrates have come into force with one of the offences covered being speeding. The guidelines see introduction of a new higher penalty for those offenders who drive at speeds excessively above legal limits. The Sentencing Council has increased the penalty for the top band of seriousness to ensure that there […]