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Your vehicle has blind spots your mirrors can’t solve. For rigid HGVs, articulated lorries, buses, and construction plant, those blind spots are not an inconvenience — they are the conditions under which serious collisions happen. Proximity sensors work, but only when they are placed correctly for the shape and operating behaviour of the vehicle they […]

4 August 2026

Nearly a quarter of all deaths involving workplace transport occur during reversing. It is one of the most consistent findings in workplace transport safety data, and it has driven the widespread adoption of reversing alarms across commercial vehicle fleets. Yet the legal position on these alarms is frequently misunderstood — operators assume they are mandatory […]

Heavy goods vehicles make up approximately 3.6% of non-motorway traffic in the UK. Between 2012 and 2016, they were involved in 17.5% of all cyclist fatalities. In London, the disparity is even sharper: HGVs account for less than 4% of miles driven in the city but were responsible for 78% of cyclist fatalities during the […]

HGVs account for roughly 70% of cyclist fatalities on UK roads despite making up only 4% of traffic. The consistent factor in these incidents is not speed, driver inattention, or road conditions. It is the physical geometry of large vehicles — the zones around an HGV where the driver has no direct line of sight […]

Most drivers know that something beeps when they reverse too close to a wall. Fewer know what is actually making that calculation, or why the same technology that helps you park a van is also used on an HGV navigating a loading dock with a cyclist in the nearside blind spot. Ultrasonic sensors are one […]

Fleet compliance is not a quarterly exercise you prepare for in the week before an audit. FORS Silver requires demonstrable evidence of ongoing driver monitoring. DVS Safe System compliance needs documented camera certification submitted to TfL before a vehicle enters Greater London. GDPR imposes data retention and access log obligations that accumulate quietly until an […]

Live view is one of those features that looks straightforward on paper and turns complicated in practice. You have remote access to your vehicles. You can open a feed, see what a driver is doing right now, and check the GPS position simultaneously. The technology works. But without a clear process for when to use […]

Live view was working last week. Now the feed won’t load, the vehicle shows as offline, or the connection drops as soon as it establishes. The vehicle is out on the road, the driver says nothing is wrong with the camera, and you have no way of checking what’s happening. Troubleshooting live view connection issues […]

An MDVR records. Live view streams. The distinction sounds simple, but it explains why two fleets can have identical hardware and get entirely different operational value from it. Understanding how live view integrates with MDVR systems is not just a technical question — it is a practical one. It determines what a transport manager can […]

You have data. You have cameras. You probably have a telematics system telling you someone in the fleet is speeding. What you may not have is a clear picture of which driver, how often, and whether last week’s coaching conversation made any difference. Managing driver performance with live monitoring is not the same as installing […]