Smart traffic lights that can tell how busy a section of the A12 is are to be installed at the Gapton Hall roundabout in Great Yarmouth.
Work to install and upgrade the traffic lights and road signs on the roundabout and the southern approach from the A12 will begin on Monday 4 January.  Detector loops under [...]

The Highways Agency, which manages England’s motorways and major A roads, is advising people to plan their journeys if they are heading back to work after the Christmas and New Year break.
Demand on the Agency’s website, which gives live traffic information, increased by more than 400 per cent during the pre-Christmas wintry weather as people [...]

SEAT’s increasingly successful Fleet and Business Sales team has signed up Kellie Lee to join fellow Area Fleet Sales Managers Barbara O’Neill-Joyce, Pippa Benham and Yulia Eaton in reporting to recently-appointed National Sales Manager Sally Livingstone.
Kellie joins the burgeoning fleet and business sales operation from Huddersfield SEAT, where she set up what has become a [...]

Jaama, the fleet management software and risk management specialist, has introduced functionality to its online Key2 Fleet Management system to ensure that company drivers have their eyesight checked regularly ahead of the introduction of new European laws in 2011.
While best practice suggests that all drivers should have their eyesight checked at an optician every two [...]

Kwik-Fit Fleet, the UK’s number one fast-fit company  and part of the Kwik-Fit Group, have found its environmental focus has resulted in the company winning a major award from leading financial services company Legal & General. Kwik-Fit Fleet beat off stiff competition from a record number of entries to win the company’s 2009 Supply Chain [...]

Brake,  the independent national road safety charity, has launched a new nationwide campaign specifically targeted at fleet managers. The Pledge2DriveSafely campaign has been devised to assist fleet managers to educate and improve safety for company drivers with a range of new e-learning tools to show people who drive for work the importance of making a [...]

Mycompanyfleet, the fleet software provider, have devised a five-point plan to help fleet managers keep costs under control in, still cash-strapped, 2010. With most companies look set to keep a tight control on all aspects of corporate expenditure next year, as the UK economy struggles to recover. Julie Jenner, chairman of the Association of Car [...]

Leading global digital map and navigational content provider Tele Atlas have announced a new version of Tele Atlas® Logistics®, including hazardous materials and truck speed limit content to enable optimal planning and routing, which is now available in Europe. This specialised digital map database designed for fleet owners and operators who manage large trucks and [...]

A major scheme to resurface almost 11 miles of the M11 between Duxford and Hauxton will start on Friday 8 January, two years early, thanks to £5.4 million of Government fiscal stimulus funding.
The work will replace the worn out carriageway surface on both the northbound and southbound M11 between junctions 10 and 11. Roadside signs and [...]

New regulations for a 50 mph speed limit along a short section of the M60 in Greater Manchester came into effect on Monday, December 28, 2009.
Adjacent permanent and temporary 50 mph speed restrictions were introduced along a section of the clockwise southbound carriageway of the motorway around Junction 25 near Stockport over two years ago [...]