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Broker Urges Fleets to Embed Telematics Data Analysis in Company Culture
As the Road Safety Strategy starts to gather pace, fleet insurance specialist and commercial broker, McCarron Coates, is highlighting the importance of operators making determined efforts to use the data at their disposal through their camera and telematic systems. Data has a prominent position…
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Fleet Broker Points to ‘Omageddon’ Factors and Ways to Protect an O-Licence
Commercial insurance broker and fleet transport specialist, McCarron Coates, has revealed 20 scenarios that can lead to what it is referring to as ‘Omageddon’ for a transport operator. McCarron Coates says these situations can mean the end of the road for either a commercial goods or passenger…
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Broker Urges Under Pressure Coach Industry to Avoid Turning a Blind Eye
Bus and coach insurance broker and risk management consultant, McCarron Coates, is urging operators within the sector not to turn a blind eye when it comes to driver recruitment. McCarron Coates warns driver shortages within the sector, coupled with severe difficulties in recruiting trained drivers…
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Why Transport Managers Should Fear a Triple Cyber Threat
Fleet transport risk consultant and insurance broker, McCarron Coates, is urging transport managers to shake off complacency and quickly recognise that a cyber attack poses a triple threat, which can affect both the business and their own finances. The expert fleet broker points to an increasingly…
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Broker’s App Solves Age-old Claims Reporting Issue
Fleet transport insurance specialist broker, McCarron Coates, has demonstrated the benefits of building 21st century technology into the claims reporting process. By equipping its clients with a state-of-the-art App, it has leveraged major advantages, including a 90% reduction in claims…
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Broker Warns Climate Change Can Expose Poor Scaffolding Safety
The specialist scaffolding and roofing insurance team at commercial insurance broker, McCarron Coates, is warning scaffolding contractors to use climate change as the catalyst for a tightening of approaches to scaffolding safety. With 81-mile-per-hour winds already having hit parts of the UK in…
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Bridge Strikes Cause O-Licence Operators Sleepless Nights
Fleet insurance broking specialist, McCarron Coates, says bridge strikes are the second most likely scenario to keep transport operators awake at night, with only a fatal or serious accident, involving a driver, ranking above them. The broker says many operators devote huge amounts of time and…
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Focus on Flash Fires Caused by Wood Dust
‘Think flash fires’ is the message for some manufacturers from commercial insurance broker, McCarron Coates, as it highlights the fire risk wood dust can pose within manufacturing. Flash fires are not as frequently discussed as flash floods but can be equally devastating. They occur when…
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Don’t Doze When It Comes to Monitoring Driver Sleep Patterns
Fleet transport insurance specialist, McCarron Coates, is warning fleets, of all types, to not play the monotony game or over-rely on British driver hour regulations for their fatigue compliance. The Leeds-based insurance broker reminds companies who are employing people for work that every employer…
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Amazonian Effort Required on HGV Parking and Cargo Crime Says Broker
Fleet transport insurance broker, McCarron Coates, has responded to recent news of the £40bn investment by Amazon, which will create four new facilities, including two new fulfilment centres, by calling for more HGV parking facilities and more action on cargo theft. With two fulfilment centres…
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McCarron Coates Shortlisted for Two British Claims Awards
Commercial insurance broker, McCarron Coates, has been shortlisted for two awards in the British Claims Awards 2025. The Leeds-based broker, which specialises in sectors such as fleet transport, scaffolding, roofing and woodworking, is a finalist for the Broker of the Year and Commercial Lines…
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Be Alert to O-licence O-versights Says Fleet Transport Broker
Commercial insurance broker, McCarron Coates, is highlighting the dangers of O-versights by those businesses reliant on having a Vehicle Operator Licence. It also warns that the current economic and employment climate are creating new stresses and responses, which could potentially result in…
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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…