BUSINESS LIFE: BUSINESS motors: Skating on thin ice.Byline: STEWART SMITH Stewart Smith may be the name of:
UP to 300,000 company car drivers could be driving vehicles fitted with unsafe tyres, putting the lives of themselves and other road users in jeopardy. Checks on company cars by Kwik-Fit Mobile - at the instigation INSTIGATION. The act by which one incites another to do something, as to injure a third person, or to commit some crime or misdemeanor, to commence a suit or to prosecute a criminal. Vide Accomplice. of safety- conscious fleet managers - revealed that about 10percent of tyres are close to or below the legal limit when the first check is carried out. It means that, across the UK's three million-strong company car fleet, up to 300,000 vehicles could be running on at least one tyre Tyre (tīr), ancient city of Phoenicia, S of Sidon. It is the present-day Sur in Lebanon, a small town on a peninsula jutting into the Mediterranean from the mainland of Syria S of Beirut. with a tread tread injury to the coronet of the horse's hoof by treading on it by the opposite hoof, or by another horse when they are being worked in a team. If the coronary matrix is injured there may be a subsequent crack or deformity. depth below, or fast approaching, the legal minimum of 1.6mm. The government estimates that up to a third of all road accidents - more than 100,000 incidents including 1,000 deaths - involve someone who is at work at the time. A recent spot check on motorists by Essex Police Essex Police is a Home Office (territorial) police force with responsibility for policing the county of Essex in the East of England. The force area covers 1,400 square miles and has a population of 1,600,000. revealed that 13percent of vehicles stopped had defective tyres. With the government urging health and safety laws, as well as road traffic legislation, to be applied more rigorously in at-work driving incidents, companies are being urged to ensure risk management strategies are in place. The current fine for driving on illegal tyres is pounds 2,500 per tyre and three penalty points per tyre on a driving licence driving licence Noun an official document authorizing a person to drive a motor vehicle Noun 1. driving licence - a license authorizing the bearer to drive a motor vehicle . Kwik-Fit fleet director Simon English said: "Ensuring tyres meet the legal requirements is a vital part of any corporate risk strategy but the human aspects in terms of safety to my mind far outweighs the legislative situation." Kwik-Fit Mobile operates 182 mobile units nationwide, with fully qualified tyre fitters checking vehicle tyre tread depths. |
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