The short-term rental sector was hit by a recession-induced crime wave last year, with the annual BVRLA Theft and Fraud Survey reporting a 12% rise in vehicle thefts. BVRLA members faced a range of threats, including opportunistic thieves, fraudsters and [...]

Manchester-based Swinton Insurance has found that arguments in the car account for thousands of minor motoring accidents each year. A survey of 2,000 customers found that arguments, dubbed ‘carguments’, caused 27% of minor bumps and scrapes in UK during 2008 [...]

Startling new evidence has come to light showing that one in three parents in Ireland are putting their children at risk when they travel with them in a car, by not securing them in a car seat when they should [...]

The recent case of a 61-year old businessman being sentenced to jail for 22months after causing the death of a young boy while driving without insurance or licence has put into focus the need for fleets to regularly check licences [...]

The Volvo Group’s engineers have created a method for constructing trucks that weigh less while carrying the same payload. Lighter vehicles would entail a significant reduction in fuel consumption and thus carbon dioxide emissions. To date, lightweight technology has mainly [...]

A deal to end the jobs dispute at Lindsey oil refinery, which led to walkouts across the country, has been agreed, unions say. The agreement follows talks between union leaders and employers of contract staff at the North Lincolnshire site, [...]

Steelmaker Corus is cutting more than 2,000  jobs at UK plants including Teesside, Scunthorpe and Rotherham. Around 2,045 jobs are at risk, some 1,500 of these are in the company’s production facilities: about 800 at the engineering steels sites, mainly [...]

Renault and Arval, Renault’s leading full service leasing partner in Europe, have decided to hasten the introduction of ground-breaking shared solutions as part of the Renault-Nissan alliance electric vehicle project. As part of Arval’s deep involved in environmental and clean [...]

Toyota and EDF Energy are to embark on a 3 year trial, beginning 2010, of up to 20 innovative Plug in Hybrid Vehicles (PHVs) with UK government funding through the Technology Strategy Board’s Ultra Low Carbon Vehicle Demonstrator Competition. The [...]

TyreSafe, the not-for-profit organisation dedicated to raising awareness of the importance of the dangers of defective and worn tyres, has added truck specific pages to its website giving access to truck tyre safety advice for the commercial vehicle community. The [...]