17 September 2020
Online UK Road Offender Education (UKROEd) courses could be made permanent, says TTC group, following the success of virtual classrooms using the Zoom app during the lockdown period, over which the frequency of speeding offences has tripled.
According to the BBC, “The Met Police issued 3,282 Traffic Offence Reports to drivers suspected of exceeding the limit in April 2020, compared with 1,922 in April 2019”. Deputy Superintendent, Andy Cox, of the Metropolitan Police said, "Early on, for some people driving at extreme speeds, they...
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14 September 2020
The Department for Transport (DfT) has updated its Vehicle Speed Compliance Statistics (SPE) to include data from 2019.
The DfT updated a series of reports relating to speed compliance in Great Britain, the broadest of which is the SPE0112 report, of which the findings are cause for concern. It showed that 54% of car drivers were exceeding 30mph speed limits in 2019, a fifth of whom were recorded at speeds over 35mph. Worse still, 6% of these offenders were caught at 40mph or more.
A further 50% of drivers were recorded exceeding the limit...
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11 September 2020
Penalty charge notices (PCNs) cover a broad range of road traffic offences, such as not paying a congestion charge, going against a ‘no left turn’ sign, or driving in a bus lane.
Comparethemarket conducted research that showed councils received up to £8 million in bus lane fines alone last year, with Manchester City issuing the most fines (totalling £8,389,610 from 388,213 fines) outside of London.
This research comes from a Freedom of Information request to 50 of the UK’s councils, representing the most populated towns...
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07 September 2020
Road safety charity, IAM RoadSmart, is calling for the UK government action over the staggering number of reported deaths relating to drink-driving.
The Department for Transport last updated the ‘Reported drinking and driving (RAS51)' statistical data set for Great Britain on August 27 2020, to reveal that there were 8,680 drink-driving related casualties in 2018. This equates to more than 23 people suffering injury or death as a consequence of drink-driving every day. Of these casualties, there were 260 fatalities.
Drink-drive...
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26 August 2020
The Department for Transport (DfE) has released statistics covering the period between March 1 2020, to August 17 2020, which show that the amount of vehicles on the road in Great Britain roughly equate to what we would normally currently see at this time of year.
According to the last update to this data, on August 17 2020 the amount of cars on the road stood at 88% of normal levels, while light commercial vehicles and heavy good vehicles were both at 100%. The percentages shown in the figures are ‘of an equivalent day or week’.
The figures for...
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21 August 2020
The charity Global Action Plan (GAP) has called on the government to enforce a minimum 15% sale quota of purely electric vehicles for UK car manufacturers.
As it stands, car brands must meet a CO2-based target, or fleet emissions target. However, the public has expressed its concern and desire for affordable electric vehicles. Only 1% of vehicles in the UK are purely electric, which equates to 100,000 vehicles. This might seem like a reasonable number, until it is compared with the 32 million other, non-electric vehicles in the UK. Furthermore, according to the Society...
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20 August 2020
The Department for Transport (DfT) announced that “The UK is taking steps forward in automated technology in vehicles with the launch of a call for evidence” on August 18 2020.
The DfT said that the call for evidence will look at the Automated Lane Keeping System (ALKS) and will offer anyone with knowledge or concerns surrounding ALKS “opportunity to help shape future policy’.
So, what are Automated Lane Keeping Systems? ALK are used to keep vehicles within the lane and steer without any...
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17 August 2020
Following the heatwave that we have experienced over the past few weeks in the UK, the thunderstorms of Friday 14th, Saturday 15th and Sunday 16th offered a welcomed break. On Sunday, the BBC even issued flood warnings for England and Wales.
According to BBC weather, we can expect to see these conditions continue this week, with heavy rain to be expected through Friday.
With this in mind, we at Marshall Leasing have compiled a guide for road safety in heavy rain and floods below.
Avoid driving where possible
Heavy rain and roads can be a recipe for...
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13 August 2020
The Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, has launched the ‘government’s most ambitious plans yet to boost cycling and walking’, as announced by the Department for Transport on July 28 2020. The plans will be funded by a £2 billion government spend.
The launch will see ‘thousands of miles of new protected bike lanes, cycle training for any child or adult, and first ever zero-emission transport city’ as well as a new ‘Fix your bike’ voucher scheme. The vouchers will be available for all members of the public and...
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13 August 2020
The Association of Fleet Professionals (AFP) has been formed to provide guidance to those within the fleet management industry and will plough the profits from training back into the organisation.
We at Marshall Leasing are proud to say that Richard Baird, our Director of New Business Development, has also been appointed as a board director of AFP and will additionally assume the role of company secretary. The Association of Fleet Professionals’ board will oversee the continuation of the work of both ACFO and ICFM, whose respective boards...
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