Contracting out vehicle maintenance does not mean contracting out responsibility for vehicle condition, transport solicitor Tim Ridyard of Ashtons Legal warned delegates at the FTA’s Transport Manager Conference late last [...]

Keith Gray, general manager of training, audits and standards at the FTA, provided delegates to the organisation’s final Transport Manager Conference of 2018 with some updated information about the DVSA [...]

Failure by transport managers to exercise “continuous and effective” control over operations was highlighted by West Midlands traffic commissioner (TC) Nick Denton as one of the major reasons for operators [...]

International hauliers wishing to apply for ECMT (European Conference of Ministers of Transport) permits – which will likely be required to transport goods to the EU and European Economic Area [...]

The Labour Party’s shadow treasury team has queried whether road transport operators are paying their fair share for the damage inflicted by their vehicles on the UK’s roads – suggesting [...]

The traffic commissioners’ office (OTC) has released details of the new financial standing levels to be required of commercial vehicle operators from 1 January. Operators with standard national and international [...]

The senior traffic commissioner (STC) of Great Britain, Richard Turfitt, has published revised editions of several of the statutory documents that explain the way in which traffic commissioners (TCs) should [...]

This article was published on 19 November. Since events are fast-moving and information is subject to change, please keep checking the gov.uk website for the latest information and advice on [...]

A short part of the A36 trunk road that links the M4 to the south coast will fall into the proposed Bath clean air zone (CAZ) under recent proposals from [...]