Significant changes to speed limits were introduced in 2025. This note aims to help you inform your staff who drive for work about these changes, their responsibilities as drivers and the consequences for speeding…

Featuring current best-practice and tips on company car benefit-in-kind (BIK ) / business mileage and Revenue tax compliance. Includes the latest Revenue guidance for 2025 from Ireland’s leading tax and payroll professionals…

Sharing practical, seasonally-focused tips is a valuable way to proactively reduce loss and promote responsible driving. Here are our top 10 winter driving tips for drivers and businesses…

At DriverFocus, we're excited to spotlight the efforts of the HSE NI and their recent 'Drive Danger Out' campaign, an initiative designed to drastically reduce workplace transport-related deaths and injuries…

By viewing fleet safety through the lens of habit formation, businesses in Ireland can foster work environments where good driving practices are not just expected but become second nature…

Featuring current best-practice and tips on company car BIK / business mileage and Revenue tax compliance. Includes the latest 2024 Revenue guidance from Ireland’s leading tax and payroll professionals…

Crashes are the visible tip of the iceberg and beneath the surface lies a vast expanse of opportunities to transform performance with KPIs…

Those who drive for work have a higher collision rate than the general driving population, even after their higher mileages are taken into account…

While switching to electric vehicles (EVs) is often seen as the go-to solution, it is not always feasible. However, there are practical steps that every vehicle fleet can take today to reduce carbon emissions…

Explore why each of these four challenges - CARBON, COST, COMPLIANCE and CARE - can be an opportunity for businesses who are proactive or a peril for those who procrastinate…

Distraction is a leading a cause of collisions. In this article, we will explore the risks of driver distraction for businesses in Ireland and discuss steps you can take to prevent loss and harm…

2023 will see telematics-based commercial motor insurance and motor risk management being promoted by insurers in the Irish market. We look at why this is happening now and how brokers and their clients can benefit…

DriverFocus has researched current best-practice around tackling Revenue compliance with company car BIK / business mileage. Features the latest 2023 Revenue guidance from Ireland’s leading tax and payroll professionals…

One of the highest risk groups is professional drivers many of whom work in isolation from others and the risk often exacerbated by poor quality sleep and fatigue…

Revenue has recently updated its guidelines to state that BIK tax concessionary measures on company cars will cease to apply from 1st June 2022…

DriverFocus has researched current best-practice around tackling company car BIK / business mileage and discussed the issues with Ireland’s leading tax and payroll professionals. Features the latest 2022 Revenue guidance…

According to the latest official data, more than 12,000 drivers on Irish roads have nine, 10 or 11 penalty points on their licence. So, what can you do to minimise the risk of an employee driving with an invalid licence…?

Today, the Small Firms Association (SFA) and its Director, Sven Spollen-Behrens hosted an interactive 45-minute webinar with Ron McNamara, CEO of DriverFocus to help SMEs identify opportunities to avoid motor-related risk and harm.

Averting claims reduces your motor insurance premium and drives other savings, safety and sustainability. While the principal source of claims is collisions, poor driver behaviour is the number one culprit in 84.8% of fatal road traffic collisions. So how exactly can a SME improve behaviour?

Most motor claims are due to crashes. Recent research in Canada found that 84% of respondents who drive at-work believe crashes are unavoidable. In fact, almost all are preventable. For SMEs, having a strategy to reduce the frequency and severity of collisions is essential (and it is the law).