Article Directory
You can redistribute
any of these articles through email, newsletters or your website.
By doing so you agree to enclose the credits and a link to
the original page. If you are breaking the articles up to
re-publish, you must recreate the credits and the link to
the original page everytime.
Courier Related
Articles
Total UK CO2 emissions = 542.6
million tonnes for 2007
Latest figures in the UK Transport
and Climate Change data factsheets - 26 March 2009, show that
in 2007 the UK produced over 540 million tonnes of CO2.
Transport producing 173.2 million tonnes of CO2. Of this 173
million tonnes, private cars were responsible for 44.3%, HGVs
were responsible for 15.2%, and vans were responsible for
8.3%. The Government use a ‘basket’ of six Green
House Gases consisting of carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide, methane,
sulphur hexafluoride, perfluorocarbons and hydrofluorocarbons.
The provisional data for 2008 show CO2 emissions to be 531.8
million tonnes. Download
PDF Article
by Vic farron RFT
Express
Make Backloads Pay for you.
This
article was originally intended for Freight hauliers, the
same principals apply to Self employed couriers with one van.
Download
PDF
RoSPA Launches
New Version of Driver Profiler
RoSPA
has launched an improved version of an award-winning psychometric
risk assessment tool to bring new benefits to organisations
wishing to gauge the strengths and weaknesses of their employees’
driving. Driver Profiler 2 is an online software package that
assesses the risks associated with an employee’s use
of the road, enabling informed decisions to be taken about
training that might be required
Try
it online Here
SAFED Safe and
Fuel Efficient Driving This
guide is part of a series of publications produced by the
Department for Transport to encourage safe and fuel efficient
driving under the Freight Best Practice programme.
Download PDF
Van Activity
Baseline Survey 2008: Provisional Results This
Statistical Release reports on a Department for Transport
Baseline Survey of Van Activity for England. Undertaken during
November and December 2008. Download
PDF
Extra £1.2million to
turn white van man green Government
announce funding for SAFED Download
PDF
RoSPA Drive for Work Film.
RoSPA have released a short film 'Driving
for Work' raising the awarenes of risks of people driving
for work. The film features a van delivery driver, a senior
manager and a young sales rep. The film offers advice and
is designed to stimulate discussion between drivers and management
about typical road safety issues, including Speed, Distraction,
Driver sleepines, aggression and fitness to drive. Read
more and download the film free from RoSPA
previous
