The Extra Mile

Mnemonics are a bit trendy, and perhaps rather over-used these days, but one popped up recently in relation to driving that seems quite useful, and easy enough to remember. It’s COAST. The letters mean Concentration, Observation, Anticipation, Space, and Time, the merits of all five of which we’ve covered in relation to eco-driving over the […]

Sorry Judge, I was too wasted to give a breath sample…

This is something that we are often asked about and it is certainly an issue that raises much debate. It’s an issue you might find to be a mix of both interesting and outrageous.    It is common knowledge that if you are suspected of drink driving, you may be arrested and required to give […]

The Extra Mile

Hopefully a few readers are still with us, and possibly some previously uncommitted to eco-driving previously took up the challenge of tackling a familiar, busy, stressful, urban route using the minimal aggression approach we suggested, before the country entered lockdown. Hopefully the results were also encouraging. But with the very best of intentions, you need […]

The Extra Mile

Eco driving, driving for economy, getting an extra few miles out of every gallon – call it whatever you wish, but what’s it really all about? What can you really get out of it, apart from maybe saving, at best, a couple of hundred pounds on fuel each year? The whole reasoning behind it fails […]

The Extra Mile

The transition from winter to spring is historically a cheerful time for motorists, as washing, and maybe polishing, the car again become possible. And motoring trips become more pleasurable, without the threat of seriously adverse conditions – albeit that February and March can have some pretty nasty late winter weather up their sleeves! But it’s […]

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