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Diesel drivers are paying up to 3p a litre more than they should for their fuel, research for June’s AA Fuel Price Report found. Not only is that taking up to £1.5 million a day extra from diesel drivers’ pockets, but the inflated cost of business transport is passed on to their customers and then […]

Maximum fines for motorists that break the law could increase by up to 300% under new Government plans, it has been revealed. The top offence level, which includes motorway speeding, could increase from £2,500 to £10,000. Meanwhile, so-called level three offences, such as using a hand-held mobile phone while driving and speeding on a dual […]

Fleet managers have called on contract hire and leasing companies not to automatically pay and recharge parking fines incurred by company drivers.

Members of ACFO, the fleet-decision-makers’ organisation, say that availability of technology – text and email – should enable contract hire and leasing companies to immediately notify customers when a Penalty Charge Notice or Parking Charge Notice (in respect of vehicles parked on private land) has been imposed on a driver.

A survey by ACFO in advance of its “Another Fine Mess?” seminar at the Henry Ford College, University Way, Loughborough, discovered that 48% of leasing companies automatically paid the fine and then recharged the cost to fleet customers with 86% adding an administration fee..

However, once a Penalty Charge Notice or Parking Charge Notice has been paid it cannot be appealed.

The London Congestion Charge increased from £10 to £11.50 on the 16 June – fleet and CC Auto Pay customers continue to benefit from a £1 reduction and pay £10.50 per day – but the rise has been branded “unjustified”. Transport for London (TfL) said the increase, the first since 2011, would ensure that the […]

Fleet managers have been urged to take action over tyre pressures after new figures revealed company car drivers were worse than private motorists at maintaining the correct inflation.

Andy Fern, Michelin’s recently appointed head of fleet, said he was shocked to discover businesses and public sector organisations had a poorer record of tyre pressures than the general public.

Less than half of employers (44%) would dismiss an employee for driving over the legal alcohol limit, and 55% never test employees for alcohol, according to a survey by Brake. Brake has described the survey of 228 employers as “desperately worrying” and is urging employers to implement “zero-tolerance policies on at-work drink- and drug-driving”.

Dozens of lives could be saved on UK roads if the law was changed to make a new type of technology compulsory in all new cars, according to road safety campaigners and insurance companies. http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/27432184  

Drivers will no longer pay at the barriers to use the Dartford Crossing when the new Dart Charge remote payment system comes into operation from October 2014.

Instead drivers will be able to pay in advance or before midnight the day after crossing. Payment methods will include pre-pay accounts which qualify for discounted travel, online, by text, at retail outlets, over the phone or by post. Drivers who do not pay will face a penalty charge.