Dafo Brand AB in Sweden has decided to separate its vehicle fire detection and suppression operations from its core fire safety equipment business. Dafo Vehicle Fire Protection AB will be in operation from July 1, 2018. “The purpose of this change is to more closely focus on the long term […]
Members of the National Truck Drivers Foundation commonly known as Impolompolo have started engaging on programmes such as driver wellness and road safety. They were pictured last week at the Mkondeni Weighbridge busy with their programme. Their Driver Wellness Programme is conducted at different weighbridges in the province featuring screening […]
FAW SA has made a concerted effort to set industry-leading aftersales benchmarks to which its dealers and branches have to adhere. As a result, all FAW dealers are operating at a higher level than ever before. While FAW SA’s efforts have culminated in a comprehensive programme of action to standardise […]
Why Did The SPAR Group LTD Embark on The Process? As a group level, The SPAR Group Ltd embarked on this process in order to: decrease risk on the road maximise on costs saving on their fleet operations. create competent defensive drivers that uphold the SPAR brand. keep transport costs […]
During the past Easter weekend, we had a horrific time for our truck drivers traveling along our main routes. During criminal unrest roads were blocked at Mooi River on the N3 and an estimated 23 trucks were burnt. This was very thoroughly discussed by our friend Patrick O’Leary from Fleetwatch […]
We decided to share an incident captured on camera recently of a bus driver recklessly and illegally overtaking on the N1 near Beaufort West. We decided to raise this with our driver training experts from NOSA logistics. Why do we find this? Here we see that the driver may be […]
The Arrive Alive website has received 2 videos of illegal and unsafe driving by a bus driver on the N1. This was shared by Theo Bekker on Facebook with the following description: “I’m sure this is not the driving standard set by the South African National Defence Force. Endangering the […]
Jeffreys Bay: A bakery truck was robbed of cash after two men armed with firearms driving a Hyundai Accent forced it off the road on N2 near Jeffreys Bay today. On Friday, 27 April 2018 around 05:00, a driver of a bakery truck and his assistant alleged that while driving […]
On the 19th of April we shared a discussion on a near horror incident at an intersection as well as a discussion on how this incident could have been prevented. The very next day we were fortunate that some vigilance saved ourselves from a collision at an intersection in Bloemfontein. […]
We shared this video with a defensive driver training specialist and asked for a few observations: My observations are as follows: The driver He is not a defensive driver because his approach speed to the intersection is too high Following distance not sufficient for speed or entering an intersection He […]
