Last week marked the annual and much anticipated CAM awards. Recognising staff members that go the extra mile for their colleagues and for CAM customers, the awards are always hotly contested. In a change to the normal format and much like the rest of 2020, this years’ awards were virtual. Nominations for the awards are submitted by the full CAM team and the winners announced by company director and awards’ host, Ryan Naughton.

A huge congratulations to CAM’s three 2020 winners: Mark Abbott, Carl Murphy & Adam Hardulak.

Mark Abbott - Colleagues’ Colleague of the Year

Chosen by his colleagues, nominations for Mark were received from across all departments. Given the glowing recommendations received and set against the backdrop of a challenging year, it’s unsurprising that Mark was awarded Colleagues’ Colleague of the Year:

"Unparalleled enthusiasm and work ethic."

"Always willing to help and explain."

"He's gone above and beyond."

Carl Murphy - Colleague's Manager of the Year

Being a manager can be a tricky balancing act, but its seems that Carl has all the relevant skills in abundance. Recognised by his team and fellow managers, Carl was the run-away winner for 2020’s Colleagues’ Manager of the Year:

“He always does what he says he is going to do.”

“He's spent time helping me understand the challenges our customers face.”

“He's so well organised, it sets a great example.”

Adam Hardulak - Special Recognition

CAM’s Special Recognition Award is as the name suggests – recognising an individual that goes the extra mile. Adam Hardulak was chosen by his colleagues for his productivity, persistence and his unequivocal focus on delivering for CAM’s customers:

"Always follows problems through until the end."

"A pleasure to work with."

"His consistent delivery makes a huge impact to the business."

Congratulations to Asim Baig, Simon Woodland, Joe Goodall, Rob Harber & Ryan Naughton, on achieving Scrum Master Certification.

Since the appointment of CAM’s Chief Technical Officer Rob Harber in December 2019, CAM’s development team have been making the switch to Agile software development. Adopting the ‘Scrum’ methodology has been an important strategic focus in CAM’s commitment to connect the tyre and automotive industry with intelligent, simple to use software. CTO Rob Harber explains.

“Scrum is a powerful framework for implementing agile processes in software development. It is a highly adopted framework that uses short iterations of work, called sprints, and daily meetings, called scrums, to tackle discrete portions of a project in succession until the project is complete.”

“At CAM we’re extremely fortunate to have some of the best developers in our industry, but we need to support that skill and talent with the best processes. And that’s where Scrum comes in.”

Included in the scrum training and now also a Certified Scrum Master is Ryan Naughton, Director at CAM; further demonstrating CAM’s shift to Agile is a commitment coming from the top.

So what differences should CAM customers see in 2021?

“Our unequivocal focus on our customer, their business and connecting them to the wider tyre industry won’t change. But Agile should allow us to offer our customers greater transparency into their development projects, with more predictable deliveries and renewed focus on quality.”

The Market Surveillance Unit from the Department for Transport recently completed a mystery shopper exercise making tyre enquiries with 68 British tyre retailers. Their findings found 78% of those retailers were not compliant with their legal requirement to provide tyre labelling information*.

Although unsurprising, retailers non-compliance will take on new meaning now that the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) will now be enforcing compliance through civil sanctions.

What are UK Tyre Suppliers and Tyre Retailers Tyre Labelling obligations?

The latest guidance from the DVSA is available via the .gov website. However the Tyre Industry Federation’s produced a document detailing tyre suppliers and distributors’ obligations on tyre labelling which makes for much easier digestion.

So how does CAM help British tyre retailers and tyre suppliers stay on the right side of the law?

Tyre Retailers – Choose CAM and Tyre Labelling Compliance is built in:

For ‘Walk-ins’ - Include a ‘Customer facing display’ for 100% compliance

When you’re talking customers through their tyre options and their prices, CAMEO’s ‘customer facing display’ option conveniently displays the EU tyre labels for each of the tyres you are comparing with your customer. Whether you opt for a small reception mounted monitor, or a large wall mounted TV, you can be confident that accurate fuel consumption, wet grip and noise classification information will be shared with every customer, every time.

For stock & price enquiries via the phone – accurate tyre performance data at your fingertips

CAMEO ensures every tyres’ performance attributes are instantly available. Ideal for telephone enquiries, not only can a member of your team quickly confirm your stock availability and best prices, you can also share each tyres’ fuel consumption, wet grip & noise classification data with your client. Talking to a client that is looking for optimum wet grip? No problem, sort your stock view into rank order and share accurate information with your customer.

For customers that are shopping around – quote including tyre performance data, every time

Whether you are emailing or printing a quote, include each tyres’ performance data as standard. Include the full EU tyre label or a short data summary, both options ensure your clients are fully informed and that you are fully compliant.

Via your e-commerce website – seamlessly tyre data & tyre labels with your online shoppers

CAMEO user? Integrate your e-commerce site with CAM’s MIDaS solution and list every tyres’ fuel efficiency class, wet grip class and external rolling noise class information instantly on your website. There is no need to maintain your tyre data, CAM does that for you.

Tyre Wholesalers – The world’s largest & most accurate Online Tyre Catalogue

We monitor the global tyre market, so you don’t have to. Every tyre, every release, every brand, every reclassification – we stringently maintain our online tyre catalogue. Available for integration into every CAM solution, tyre wholesalers can be confident that the latest fuel efficiency class, wet grip class and external rolling noise class is instantly available in their CAM systems.

Here to help

If you’d like to explore how CAM can help your tyre business meet its obligations to share tyre performance data and ultimately avoid being fined, talk to your account manager or call Steve Daly on 01453 891000.

* https://btmauk.com/2020/11/30/btma-welcomes-the-adoption-of-enforcement-powers-for-the-tyre-labelling-regulation/