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Fleet Transport Broker Appoints Like-minded Pro to Assist with Insurance Range Anxiety
McCarron Coates has appointed a fleet transport specialist in the south, to help ease insurance provision ‘range anxiety’ but also help spread its consultative sales approach further. Rather than giving fleet transport insurance the big sell, McCarron Coates has always followed a strategy of…
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Agenda-driving Broker to Accelerate Support at The Big Coach Conversation
Specialist fleet insurance broker, McCarron Coates, is viewing its sponsorship of the forthcoming March 27, Big Coach Conversation event, as a means of applying the accelerator on its support for the bus and coach sector. The broker got involved through its strong relationship with organisers…
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Insurance Broker Says ‘Combat the Convergence’
A convergence of highly addressable factors typically underpins the road traffic incidents resulting in the severest legal penalties says fleet insurance broker McCarron Coates. This was demonstrated at a mock trial, sponsored by the broker and arranged, in Birmingham, by Freight People in…
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Kentaro Aims for Strong Start in the Commercial Insurance Broking Sector
Two Leeds-based commercial insurance brokers, with a combined total of 41 years’ service for their former employer, have taken the decision to start up their own brokerage. Dean Fletcher and Zahid Taj are both brokers well known in the Leeds area, having been former employees of Schofield…
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McCarron Coates Takes On its First Appointed Representative
Leeds-based insurance brokerage, McCarron Coates, has offered a trading agreement to its first appointed representative business, based on a friendship long in the making. McCarron Coates has partnered with new start-up brokerage Kentaro, becoming the new Horsforth-based brokerage’s AR principal…
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McCarron Coates and JMW Launch Unique Legal Protection for O Licence Holders
Forward-thinking fleet transport insurance broker, McCarron Coates, has partnered with award-winning full-service law firm and transport specialist, JMW, to create a unique road transport protection policy offering benefits to both operators and their employees. The ‘Accelerate’ policy…
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McCarron Coates Supports Eye-opening Mock Trial
Fleet transport insurance broker, McCarron Coates, is intending to get its clients, and others in the commercial motor world, on the front foot in January, as it goes into the New Year as the headline sponsor of a mock motoring trial, to be staged on January 23, 2025. The broker has put its…
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Fleet Broking Specialist Shines With Silver
Specialist fleet transport insurance broker, McCarron Coates, has achieved double success at the prestigious Insurance Times Awards, scooping two silver awards. The broker competed against larger and more general commercial brokers in these awards, hoping the judges would appreciate its dedication…
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2022 Motoring Offence Still Not Appreciated
More than two years after its introduction, research commissioned by commercial insurance broker and BFM insurer partner, McCarron Coates, highlights how the motoring offence of Causing Serious Injury by Careless or Inconsiderate Driving is still not understood by the average person. The…
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2022 Motoring Offence Still Not Appreciated by Public
More than two years after its introduction, research commissioned by bus and coach and fleet transport insurance broker, McCarron Coates, highlights how the motoring offence of Causing Serious Injury by Careless or Inconsiderate Driving is still not understood by the average person. The lack…
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You Cannot be Serious! 2022 Motoring Offence Still Not Appreciated by Public
More than two years after its introduction, research commissioned by commercial insurance broker, McCarron Coates, highlights how the motoring offence of Causing Serious Injury by Careless or Inconsiderate Driving is still not understood by the average person. The lack of awareness relates to…
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Leeds Broker's Board Game Highlights Considerable Commercial Transport Risks
Leeds-based fleet transport and commercial insurance broker, McCarron Coates, has created its own board game, called Road Hierarchy. The game sets the world of the HGV, van and bus and coach operator in a motoring law and regulation context, providing food for thought about the legal framework…
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Board Game Highlights Bus and Coach Operators’ Hierarchy Risks
Award-winning bus and coach insurance broker, McCarron Coates, has created its own board game, to provide passenger transport operators with more food for thought about the legal framework in which they are operating. It also gives them an innovative and engaging accompaniment to toolbox talks.
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Broker’s Board Game Highlights Fleet Operators’ Hierarchy Risks
Award-winning fleet transport and commercial insurance broker, McCarron Coates, has created its own board game, to provide HGV and van fleet operators with more food for thought about the legal framework in which they are operating. It also gives them an innovative and engaging accompaniment to…
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McCarron Coates Experiencing Mud, Sweat and Tears for Charity
When the going gets tough, the team at specialist fleet insurance brokerage, McCarron Coates, get going, as proven by the entry of 16 members of staff into Tough Mudder Yorkshire 2024. The McCarron Coates team, which includes director Paul Coates, will be taking on the 15km, 20-obstacle course in…
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Time to Build Hierarchy Awareness into Commercial Driving Training Cycles
Specialist fleet insurance broker, McCarron Coates, is encouraging HGV fleets, bus and coach operators and courier companies to use Bike Week (June 10-16) to impart key training messages relating to driving around cyclists and to keep a strong audit trail of this training. Whilst keeping cyclists…
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Broker Calls for Highway Code to be Better Embedded in Fleet Driving
- Liability implications too great to allow Code knowledge to pass fleets by, as survey shows large number of drivers never reference the rules Fleet broking insurance specialist, McCarron Coates, is warning fleets to ensure they have checked drivers have updated themselves on the rules
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Progressive Fleets Must Make Insurance-worthiness Their Goal
Specialist fleet insurance broker, McCarron Coates, says insurance inflation, increased vehicle theft rates and a new motoring offence are three factors combining to make a fleet operation’s insurance-worthiness just as important a focus for professional fleet managers as their vehicles’
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Broker Urges HGV Fleets to Manage DQC Renewals and Drive Down Risks
Fleet transport specialist insurance broker, McCarron Coates, is urging HGV operators to plan in their approach to CPC renewals before this year’s 10 September 2024 deadline and put a better overall strategy in place with regard to driver training. Last year, it was noted that nearly half a…
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Fleet Transport Broker Highlights Why 2024 Has to be the ‘Year of Cameras’
2024 is the UN International Year of Camelids but in the fleet world, specialist fleet transport insurance broker, McCarron Coates, is highlighting how a perfect storm of potential claims scenarios necessitates it becoming the transport industry’s Year of Cameras. At a time when fleet operators…
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Keep Fit Testing Top of Mind in Decembeard
Commercial insurance broker and wood industry specialist, McCarron Coates, is warning companies to beware the month of Decembeard and stay on top of health and safety. The broker says woodworking companies, relying on workers wearing RPE due to being unable to control wood dust using LEV systems…
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McCarron Coates Puts Hearts and Minds Behind Charity Challenge
Eleven members of the team at award-winning Yorkshire insurance brokers, McCarron Coates, have completed the Yorkshire Three Peaks Challenge, to raise money for a local charity. The team, drawn from the McCarron Coates directors, broking and administration staff and in-house claims division, have…
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Fight Latest Crash for Cash Scam With the Right Evidence and Legal Support
Courier insurance specialist, McCarron Coates, is urging operators to make the most of technology, by installing dashcams to fight a wave of fraud that started in London and since spread to other parts of the UK. The scam is the latest ‘crash for cash’ fraud but, instead of a car slamming on its…
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Broker Urges Commercial Drivers to Aim for the 1% Club
Specialist fleet insurance broker, McCarron Coates, is urging commercial drivers not to push their claims into the 300% club by waiting more than 25 days to report them. It says submitting a claim on day one can put them in the 1% club or better. Leading insurers’ figures show a claim…
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McCarron Coates Becomes First Broker to Help Commercial Drivers Handle New Legislation's Threats
Award-winning fleet transport insurance broker, McCarron Coates, has launched a unique service for its fleet transport clients, to help protect drivers and company finances alike. The Leeds-based broker is offering commercial transport operators, courier firms and company car fleets what is…
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Broker Launches RTC Crisis Line to Protect HGV Drivers & Operators
Award-winning fleet transport insurance specialist, McCarron Coates, has launched a unique legal advice service for its clients – RTC Crisis Line - as it notes an increased probability of HGV drivers and operators being prosecuted following a collision. The service, on offer to all McCarron…
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Broker Launches RTC Crisis Line to Protect Coach Operators
Award-winning fleet transport insurance specialist, McCarron Coates, has launched a unique legal advice service for its clients – RTC Crisis Line. This is a response to the increased probability of coach operators being prosecuted following a collision and the service is on offer to all…
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Fleet Insurance Broking Specialist Secures Four British Claims Awards Nominations
Motor fleet and commercial insurance broking specialist, McCarron Coates, has been rewarded for its dedication to delivering a first-class in-house claims service to its clients, having secured four award nominations in the British Claims Awards 2023. The Leeds-based insurance broker, which works…
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Broker Urges Businesses to Shout ‘I’m a Liability’
Award-winning commercial insurance broker, McCarron Coates, is warning businesses about the risk management jungle and says many business owners should be shouting, “I’m a liability; help me out of here.” The award-winning broker says businesses should anticipate forthcoming increases in risk…