Two reports emerged recently showing that more professional drivers than ever are using their mobile phone while driving – and the vast majority of them do not use hands-free equipment even when it’s provided.

Why do we think easier use of in-vehicle systems is not the message we want to send to make our roads, our drivers or our vehicles safer?

In 2017, there were some 12,500 collisions involving vans that caused injury or death compared to 5,000 for HGVs.

The DfT recently published its 2017 road casualty statistics and they make for sober reading.

There are 408,000 trucks registered in the UK and four million vans.

There are many great benefits to utilising cameras, inward or forward-facing, in commercial vehicles.

‘Fatigue can be a killer’ announces TRL’s excellent recent piece on tiredness amongst bus and coach drivers.

Twenty-two men on a piece of open ground. One ball, one referee and his team of linesmen and assistants, and a crowd which punctuates every movement with yells, cheers, groans or songs.