“It’s great because Stuart has that operational background, like me,” she says.
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She provides ‘high level’ consultancy with potential and existing clients, advising them of their risk areas and how to put a positive fleet risk culture in place.Īnother former fleet manager and Fleet News Award winner, Stuart Wiseman, who joined Driive in 2018, acts as a transport manager for clients where none is present and will carry out activities such as vehicle acquisitions. However, she has found that her knowledge and understanding of what customers need has helped her in her new role. Moriarty joined Driive at the start of May and thought she may struggle moving to the supplier side as it is a “different angle”. “So when he approached me to go to work with him it was a no-brainer.” “We’re like two road risk anoraks,” she says. It was through Brake that she met Driive managing director Colin Hartley, who she describes as having “an absolute passion for road safety” as he previously worked as a police constable in a roads policing unit, forensically investigating serious and fatal road collisions. She has collected numerous awards during her time in fleet, including Skanska winning Safe Fleet at the 2017 Fleet News Awards and most recently, the Kevin Storey Award for Outstanding Commitment to Road Safety at the 2019 Brake Fleet Safety Awards.
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Moriarty has worked in health and safety for 25 years, specialising in fleet risk management for more than 10 years and has been a magistrate for the past 16 years so has seen, first-hand, the consequences of poor driver behaviour. When you look at the increase in speeding, you need someone there controlling and making sure that people understand that speeding is not acceptable.”
“It’s very concerning that they may not have the expertise. “These fleets are still on the road,” Moriarty says.
It is a concern.” Transport managers made redundantĪ further concern is that rather than being able to tackle the issue head-on, some businesses are now lacking resource, with anecdotal evidence of some transport managers being made redundant as a result of the financial impact of Covid-19. Where people have decided it’s OK to drive everywhere at 80mph or 40mph in a 20mph zone and those sort of things, changing those behaviours needs to be done straight away because, the longer it goes on, that just becomes an entrenched, accepted behaviour for people. “Those things have been put back in place now, but changing behaviour takes a long time. “I understand why the Government did it, in terms of keeping the country moving, but I would say, particularly with drivers’ hours, you’re no less fatigued because the country needs you to be delivering something, that risk is still increased whether it makes business sense or not. “I think because the Government temporarily relaxed things like drivers’ hours and the MOT, people just thought ‘I can do what I want now’,” Moriarty says. There is also an increased risk of drug-driving, with police figures showing it is becoming more prevalent than drink-driving.
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Moriarty says it is “really frightening” to read police reports of drivers speeding, with many doing more than 100mph in 40mph and 30mph zones and to see drivers towing in the outside lane of a motorway. That’s the warning from Alison Moriarty, former fleet road risk and compliance manager at Skanska, and now fleet risk director at Driive Consulting. It takes months, if not years, to instil good habits behind the wheel, even with the aid of training and telematics.Īnd there is a risk that that hard work could be undone if companies do not act quickly to stamp out unsafe (and illegal) behaviour which some drivers appear to have adopted during lockdown while the roads have been quiet. Driive Consulting 'provides the human factor' Back Hear first hand from Alison Moriarty, DRiiVE Consulting's Risk Director and our very own Fleet & Mobility Live Advisory Board Member.Ĭhanging driver behaviour is not an overnight process.