• Trade groups: fleets need finance to weather Covid-19 storm

    Published On: Thursday 16 April 2020

    The road transport industry’s trade body representatives have called on government to boost financial support for the sector and hasten the delivery of measures already promised, to help fleets to [...]

  • RHA issues Covid-19 driver health guidance

    Published On: Thursday 16 April 2020

    The Road Haulage Association (RHA) has provided health, cleaning, hygiene and social distancing guidance for fleet operators to help protect drivers against the spread of Covid-19. In its daily coronavirus [...]

  • Design constraints – good or bad?

    Published On: Wednesday 15 April 2020

    Roger Brereton of Pailton Engineering explains the impact of poor flexibility for vehicle design Pick a number from one to ten. It must be odd and it must also be [...]

  • Telematics trends for 2020

    Published On: Wednesday 15 April 2020

    Agility, analytics and sustainability are key considerations, says Pjotr Horowitz, chief sales officer at freight transport platform Ontruck Telematics has been a critical force in reshaping the transportation of goods [...]

  • Keyfuels announces 3,000th UK fuel site

    Published On: Tuesday 14 April 2020

    Fuel card provider Keyfuels now has over 3,000 network sites in the UK, following the addition of the Racecourse Service Station in Doncaster to the network in December, a site [...]

  • Covid-19 forces Direct Vision Standard postponement

    Published On: Monday 13 April 2020

    London mayor Sadiq Khan has asked Transport for London (TfL) to delay the enforcement of the Direct Vision Standard (DVS) scheme, as well as upcoming changes to the low emission [...]

  • DVSA suspends periodic tacho calibrations and inspections

    Published On: Thursday 9 April 2020

    The Driver & Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) has announced that periodic tachograph calibrations and inspections on vehicles are to be suspended, due to the Covid-19 pandemic.To ensure vehicles with tachographs [...]

  • Drivers’ hours rules relaxed to keep UK running

    Published On: Thursday 9 April 2020

    Note: This article was accurate as of publication on 9 April, but the DfT relaxations detailed below have since been extended to the end of May, with some exceptions. Please see [...]

  • Fleets stand firm and deliver as coronavirus crisis bites

    Published On: Sunday 5 April 2020

    Faced with what was undoubtedly proving its biggest test in modern times, the road transport industry was responding with composure, agility and determination to the Covid-19 crisis as lockdown measures [...]