RAC expects busiest late spring bank holiday on the roads in three years
More than 15 million cars will be on the country’s major roads for the coming bank holiday getaway, RAC Traffic Watch data predicts
More than 15 million cars will be on the country’s major roads for the coming bank holiday getaway, RAC Traffic Watch data predicts
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
Commercial vehicles up to 3.5 tonne can now be checked with the new RAC Car Passport for Dealers. The provenance check was introduced for cars in March and has since been adopted by more than 300 dealers.
The RAC has launched a new smartphone app to bolster its award-winning* telematics, which is now available in the Microsoft App Store following its launch for iPhone in April. The new app brings driver behaviour data, journey history, vehicle health information and engine fault alerts together in one place to support business drivers.
The total number of reported thefts of vehicle number plates in England and Wales fell between 2010 and 2014, new data seen by the RAC shows.
Oil rises by $9 a barrel in April making for a 25% increase and price of diesel goes up by 2p a litre
RAC Business has appointed Phil Barnes as strategic sales and development manager, a newly created role by the business to support the continued growth of RAC’s telematics offer.
Arval, the leading vehicle leasing and fleet management company, has insourced much of its Accident Management product in order to maintain greater control over interactions with customers and leverage in-house technical expertise. At the same time, Arval has moved to RAC to provide the outsourced elements of the product, utilising their systems and expertise.
The RAC is warning motorists planning on taking to the roads for the May Day Bank Holiday weekend to expect a frantic Friday followed by a supercharged Saturday and Sunday of traffic.
Thirteen years after the introduction of the a law forbidding use of a handheld phone at the wheel, new RAC research shows the behaviour is far from being stamped out.
The RAC has launched a new smartphone app to bolster its award-winning* telematics product by bringing driver behaviour data, journey history, vehicle health information and engine fault alerts together in one place to support business drivers. The RAC is the first major UK breakdown service to develop and launch a telematics driver app.
Residents’ parking schemes are creating a ‘parking paradox’ with nearly half of all motorists (48%) being in favour of them while six in 10 (61%) believe they just shift the problem to another area.