• DAF Trucks offers new telematics service to customers

    Published On: Wednesday 9 April 2014

    DAF Trucks has announced it is to offer a new telematics solution as an integral part of all new DAF repair and maintenance contracts, at no additional cost to customers. [...]

  • Eminox launches new spare parts catalogue

    Published On: Wednesday 9 April 2014

    Emissions control specialist Eminox has announced the publication of a new and more easily accessible spare parts catalogue, which the company says will further enhance its aftersales service. It is [...]

  • Foreign truck tax now in effect

    Published On: Wednesday 9 April 2014

    The HGV Road User Levy, whose effect is to bill foreign hauliers for their use of the UK’s roads, was launched at the beginning of the month. The policy, which [...]

  • CV wheels now ‘safety-critical’, says EU

    Published On: Tuesday 8 April 2014

    Provisions incorporated in new European Union (EU) roadworthiness regulations are set to define commercial vehicle wheels as a ‘safety-critical’ item, following a lengthy campaign by advocates of the policy. The [...]

  • Multiple company convictions could lead to O-licence loss

    Published On: Tuesday 8 April 2014

    The senior traffic commissioner, Beverley Bell (pictured), has warned that companies operating commercial vehicles within specialist industries with multiple convictions against them could lose their repute or fitness to hold [...]

  • VWS helps KP Waste customers ‘pay as you throw’

    Published On: Tuesday 8 April 2014

    Vehicle Weighing Solutions Ltd (VWS) has been helping North London–based waste management company, KP Waste, introduce a ‘pay as you throw’ service for customers, by installing the dynamic Enviroweigh bin-weighing [...]

  • Government says ‘adieu’ to foreign-language driving tests

    Published On: Monday 7 April 2014

    Driving tests may only be taken in English and Welsh as of 7 April, as the result of a newly introduced policy claimed to improve safety and clamp down on [...]

  • Young’s improves efficiency with Fargo TOPS software

    Published On: Thursday 3 April 2014

    Young’s Container Transport (YCT) has recently implemented the TOPS (Transport Operations & Processing Systems) software from Fargo Systems at its depots in Tilbury and Southampton. The transport and storage solutions [...]

  • TC warns transport managers over public inquiry attendance

    Published On: Wednesday 2 April 2014

    Transport managers who fail to attend when summoned to public inquiry are in danger of losing their repute and professional competence, a traffic commissioner has warned. Nick Denton, the commissioner [...]