Commercial Vehicle Insurance

How Driverless Vehicles Could Affect Your Truck Insurance

How Driverless Vehicles Could Affect Your Truck Insurance

The publication in February 2019 of the Government’s ‘Code of Practice: Automated vehicle trialling’ points to the possibility that driverless vehicles could be seen on our streets undergoing strictly controlled trials in 2019. Read how this may affect your HGV driving safety procedures and your truck insurance. read more

Avoiding Airbag Injuries while Driving Trucks

Avoiding Airbag Injuries while Driving Trucks

Police are warning drivers not to wear lanyards around their neck whilst driving. The advice follows incidents where injuries have been aggravated following the deployment of an airbag because items attached to a lanyard have been forced into the wearer’s chest causing significant injury. read more

Managing the Spreading Fire Risk in Trucks

Managing the Spreading Fire Risk in Trucks

Losing one vehicle due to fire can be a costly and disruptive event. Losing a fleet of vehicles due to fire spreading to several vehicles parked close together could prove catastrophic. Prevention is always far better than cure. So what steps can a fleet operator take to reduce the likelihood of fire, be it accidental or deliberate, breaking out in one vehicle and spreading to many others? read more

Civil Liability Bill Could Reduce Truck Insurance Premiums

Civil Liability Bill Could Reduce Truck Insurance Premiums

Government research indicates that since 2005 motor personal injury claims have risen by around 40% despite road accidents having fallen by nearly 30% during the same period.* The surge in personal injury claims is largely down to so-called ‘whiplash’ claims. It’s this surge that the new Civil Liability Bill is designed to address. read more

Guide to CPC Training

Guide to CPC Training

If you own or rent a lorry, bus or coach and wish to drive it commercially, it is vital to obtain Driver CPC. Alternatively, you may already have Driver CPC and are coming up to your deadline for renewal – in either case, drivers must undergo training before professionally operating one of these vehicles. read more