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Driver fatigue is responsible for approximately 20% of all road crashes in the UK, rising to 40% of crashes on motorways where monotonous driving conditions accelerate onset. For commercial fleet operators, the risk profile is acute: HGV drivers operate on long-distance and motorway routes where fatigue risk is highest, under drivers’ hours rules that set […]

4 August 2026

Fleet incident data consistently points to a small number of manoeuvre types — reversing, left turns at junctions, lane changes on dual carriageways — as the situations where contact between a commercial vehicle and a vulnerable road user or another vehicle is most likely to occur. Camera data and telematics do not eliminate these manoeuvres, […]

Camera footage does not only record what happened to a fleet vehicle — it records what the driver did, and what other road users did. These are two different problems requiring different responses. Footage that shows a third party performing a dangerous manoeuvre before an impact gives the fleet operator evidence to defend against a […]

A fleet that fits cameras and then uses the footage only for claims evidence has solved half the problem. The other half — and the part that reduces the volume of claims rather than just the cost of each one — is using the same footage to change driver behaviour before incidents occur. The near-miss […]

When the Camera Covers the Wrong Thing A fleet manager calls after a nearside incident. The vehicle had a rear camera and a forward-facing dashcam. The footage from both cameras is clear and shows nothing relevant. The incident happened down the nearside — the one position not covered. The claim goes to insurance undefended. This […]

A Small Component With Large Consequences The connector on a vehicle camera is not the part of the specification that most fleet managers think about when ordering a new camera system. It should be. The connector determines how reliably the camera stays connected through vibration, water ingress, and the physical abuse of depot operations. It […]

When the Footage Goes Dark An HGV reversing incident happens at 04:30 at a distribution depot. The forward-facing camera captured it. The footage is reviewed. Everything from the windscreen forward is black. The parking area lights were off and the camera — correctly installed, correctly positioned — simply could not record in the available light. […]

The Question Fleet Managers Keep Asking Audio recording in fleet vehicles is one of those topics where the desire to do it and the ability to do it legally are very different things. The desire makes sense: audio can capture what video misses — a verbal confrontation at a loading bay, a passenger making a […]

Why Camera Maintenance Is Part of the Walkaround Check A camera that has not been cleaned for three months is not doing its job. Road spray, harvest dust, winter salt, and diesel film all accumulate on HGV camera lenses — and the result is not just degraded image quality. Dirty lenses cause false alerts in […]

The Unique Safety Challenge of Refuse Collection Waste collection vehicles operate in some of the most difficult environments any commercial vehicle encounters. Narrow residential streets. Parked cars on both sides. Loading crews working directly alongside and behind the truck while it moves. Children. Cyclists. And a driver whose forward view is clear while virtually everything […]