If you are driving over the New Year, perhaps visiting relatives, then TRACKER, the leading fleet tracking expert, also offers a traffic and travel service off their website. The service uses standard Google map controls and TRACKER’s traffic service shows any UK location and displays up to date local traffic congestion.

Stephen Doran, Managing Director  of TRACKER, said,”The TRACKER website features up-to-the minute traffic and travel information across the UK, helping motorists avoid traffic congestion and icy or snowy conditions.We also use roadside cameras, so that drivers can see conditions for themselves and make informed travel decisions”.

Alternatively the Trafficmaster travel service is also available which shows the latest delays and direction.

The “Kia Motors’ Cleaner Driving” report has revealed that UK motorists spend more than two days each year (49.5) stuck in stand-still traffic. They also found that the average Brit will spend 91 days of their working life grinding to a halt trying to reach their workplace.

The headlines of the Kia report are:

-Two-thirds of drivers (66%) admit to speeding when the traffic clears up to make up the time.

-62% of drivers get angry when they hit queues.

-33% admit having experienced road rage in heavy traffic.

-One in five (19%) have suffered a bump or accident on route to work.

-44% are regulary late for their work due to traffic congestion.

However the report also found that 30% of motorists have ruled out public transport due to inconvenience and 72% said they value the privacy and space travelling to work in their car.

Trafficmaster map

The August Bank Holiday is falling late in the month and heavy traffic congestion is forecasted by Trafficmaster, the UK’s leading vehicle information and satellite navigation and tracking company, for this coming weekend. They are predicting around a 30% increase in traffic on popular holiday routes on Friday the 21st August 2009.

Many schools are starting their Autumn term during the first week in September so many people will probably see this as a last chance to get a holiday in for all the family, especially if the weather is good. There are several festivals on over the weekend, for example the V-Festivals in Shropshire, the Notting Hill Carnival, Blackpool illuminations switch-on, air festivals at Bournemouth, Shoreham and Old Warden (Bedforshire) and of course the football season is well underway. 

Trafficmaster is a partner of Comparecontrachire.com and on the Home Page is a link to their live road UK traffic map. This shows all the road congestion points throughout the UK and you can zoom in or out to your particular area. This traffic map is updated every few minutes or so and we recommend you use this if you are setting off this weekend , so you can plan ahead and avoid the hotspots.

Top hotspots predicted by Trafficmaster are as follows

Trafficmaster the innovative smart navigation company has partnered with Compare Contract Hire to bring live road traffic information to all visitors of www.comparecontracthire.com

Slow moving traffic on all major roads in the UK can now be seen at one source showing speed restrictions and direction of the slow down.

Comparecontracthire.com is dedicated to providing small businesses and consumers with useful information to help run their vehicles.

The site is also the UK’s first contract hire price comparison site allowing customers to quote free of charge any make and model on contract hire and compare rentals direct from the finance companies.