The DVSA is to lower the fees it charges for annual tests for trucks, buses and trailers at authorised testing facilities (ATFs), but raise them for tests carried out at [...]
A leading transport solicitor has warned that proposals to allow fixed penalty notices to be issued at the roadside for drivers’ hours offences committed in the preceding 28 days may [...]
Hauliers operating from or into Scotland face a period of uncertainty if the Scottish people vote for independence this autumn. It should be remembered, though, that a victory for the [...]
The number of deaths in road accidents has halved since 2000, according to statistics from the Department for Transport, with 1,713 people killed on the road in 2013. Recorded serious [...]
There will be no immediate legislation restricting the age of tyres that can be fitted to heavy vehicles, the Department for Transport has said. After a fatal crash on the [...]
There will be no U-turn on the road to greater compliance in Northern Ireland, the recently-appointed head of the Transport Regulation Unit (TRU) Donna Knowles told the Road Haulage Association’s [...]
Maximum magistrates’ court fines may increase four-fold
Published On: Friday 20 June 2014
Justice minister Jeremy Wright is proposing to increase the maximum fines imposable by magistrate courts four-fold: meaning that the ceiling for level four offences such as motorway speeding could rise [...]
Scania has an assured future as one of 12 brands that are part of the Volkswagen Group, the company’s president and chief executive Martin Lundstedt told Transport Operator, as the [...]
DAF has returned to the heavy-haulage market with a full range of four-axle Euro 6 CF and XF-cabbed specialist vehicles, including, for the first time from DAF in the UK, [...]
