The Department for Transport (DfT) has released its first-year evaluation of the impact of HGV speed limit increases in England and Wales, which took effect in April last year. The [...]
Vehicle safety systems specialist ECCO Safety Group has announced the launch of its nnew Code 3 (Premier Hazard) branded ‘slim-line’ versions of the XT Slim Series of hazard warning directional [...]
Commercial vehicle workshop waste and oil recycling specialist Hydrodec UK, also known as OSS Group, has been rebranded as Slicker Recycling, following its acquisition by entrepreneur Andrew Black, founder of [...]
Logistics giant Wincanton has announced that it has retained the Carbon Trust Standard, with the latest award remaining valid until March 2018. The company has been a Standard bearer since [...]
Truckers ‘driven to despair’ by DVLA medical failings
Published On: Monday 7 November 2016
The Driver & Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) has been slammed by the Parliamentary & Health Service Ombudsman (PHSO), Dame Julie Mellor, for letting down truck drivers who have had licences [...]
The supply of truck drivers to the UK transport industry is improving thanks to higher wages, but questions are being raised by the Freight Transport Association and others about the [...]
Change afoot as hauliers steel themselves for Brexit
Published On: Saturday 5 November 2016
Even though the Brexit process has hardly started, hauliers are already experiencing changes both positive and negative as a result of the June vote for the UK to leave the [...]
The Driver & Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) has been reviewing proposals to improve rules for approved tachograph centres (ATCs) which are responsible for the installation, calibration and inspection of tachographs. [...]
The Institute for Public Policy Research, which describes itself as “the UK’s leading progressive thintank” has urged further restrictions on diesel-engined vehicles in London to combat levels of air pollution [...]
