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Small businesses lose £3.5k a year on preventable breakdowns

Small businesses lose £3.5k a year on preventable breakdowns

Small businesses in the UK say they have to deal with vehicles being out of action for almost three working weeks (14 days) on average each year, due to preventable breakdowns. New research by RAC Business has discovered this equates to an average income loss of £248 per day for each working day lost, or £3,472 across the year.

2015 sees further fall in numbers of dedicated roads policing officers

Majority of forces record year-on-year fall in full-time roads policing officers
1,437 fewer designated officers in 2015 than in 2010, excluding Met Police
Transport Committee report advises maintaining specialist officer numbers

2015 saw a further fall in the number of full-time roads policing officers tasked with enforcing motoring laws and keeping local and major hig

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