Leading fleet and asset management software company Jaama has successfully achieved ISO9001 re-accreditation for its quality management systems.
The world’s most recognised quality management standard, published by the International Organisation for Standardisation, underlines Jaama’s commitment to quality across its entire business.
Jaama, which is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year, first gained ISO9001 certification in 2011 and the re-accreditation follows a rigorous three-day root and branch audit by independent assessors.
Certified companies must submit themselves to the re-accreditation process every three years.
The company’s process improvement quality system (PIQs) is designed to ensure its customer-focused approach is built on a quality platform across its various departments including research and development, implementation, customer service, sales and marketing.
The Government in Scotland is expected to cut the nation’s drink-drive limit putting the legal limit below that south of the border.
New proposals, which if approved by the Scottish Parliament would see the cut come into effect on 5th December, 2014, would see the blood alcohol limit cut from 80 milligrams to 50 milligrams in every 100 millilitres of blood.
The cut would bring Scotland’s drink-drive limit into line with much of Europe. Draft legislation has been laid before Parliament following a consultation exercise.
Drivers are calculated to collectively save up to £150 million over the next 10 years as the cost of getting a driving licence is slashed, Chief Secretary to the Treasury Danny Alexander and Transport Minister Claire Perry have announced.
Driving licence fees will fall by up to 32% as part of the Government’s commitment to deliver savings to the taxpayer.
The changes, which follow a recent public consultation, came into force on Friday, 31st October.
Driverless vehicles are the future and 2015 could be a watershed year, according to junior Transport Minister Claire Perry.
Speaking at the Parliamentary Advisory Council for Transport Safety’s ‘Driverless Vehicles Conference, she said the driverless cars could be on the roads in a relatively short space of time.
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Drivers have been urged to check their tyres regularly after more than 40% of vehicle defect-related deaths in the UK in 2013 were found to have been caused by illegal, defective or under-inflated tyres. Indeed, a total of 2,855 casualties were caused by defective vehicles, with dangerous tyres cited as a contributory factor in […]
Understanding how to run an efficient and effective transport operation is critical for fleet decision-makers, which is why Jaama’s vehicle and driver compliance experts are hosting a best practice seminar at this year’s Fleet News Congress.
The event, which focuses on “reducing costs with an efficient fleet”, is on Tuesday, 14th October at the Heritage Motor Centre, Gaydon.
The industry publication has lined up an array of expert speakers who will address critical fleet issues in seminars.
You may have seen the recent news about the security vulnerability known as “Shellshock” which is believed to affect around 500 million servers worldwide. As Jaama’s systems utilise a completely Microsoft based environment using Microsoft Windows, IIS and SQL Server, our software and systems are unaffected. The Bash “Shellshock” vulnerability only affects UNIX systems and […]