Jaama offer step towards new insurance laws
With the DVLA set to begin enforcing new insurance regulations from the end of June, fleet software developer Jaama is working to help hire companies update their systems and avoid the tough penalties.
Fines will be dished out to registered keepers of uninsured vehicles without a valid Statutory Off Road Notice, and the responsibility will rest with contract hire and leasing companies to ensure that customers have correctly insured all vehicles. A vehicle could be clamped, seized or destroyed if written warnings go ignored.
“When the authorities run checks on vehicles and discover that a leased vehicle is uninsured it will be the contract hire company that is targeted,” says Jaama MD Jason Francis.
“As a leading provider of software to many of the UK’s contract hire and leasing companies, we are actively helping them to update their internal administration processes.
“The onus is now on vehicle providers to ask their fleet customers to inform them every time there is the slightest policy insurance change.”
Awareness
Mr Francis added that fleet managers needed to be educated to provide their insurance policy documentation to their leasing company provider.
While outright purchase fleets are the ‘registered keeper’ of vehicles and are therefore not necessarily facing the same administrative mountain, Mr Francis advises that they should ensure that current insurance documentation is on the Motor Insurance Database (MID), which is managed by the Motor Insurers’ Bureau (MIB). Information can be checked free at askMID.com.
It is estimated that 1.4m motorists drive uninsured and around 242,000 offenders are convicted for uninsured driving every year.
An average of £30 is added to the premiums of responsible drivers to cover crashes involving uninsured and untraced drivers.
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