Mayor’s emissions plans ‘fly in the face of common sense’
Published On: Monday 6 November 2017
Road transport industry trade associations have reacted with concern to confirmation of the Mayor of London’s plans to introduce the new ultra low emission zone (ULEZ) in the capital 17 [...]
In-cab rest clampdown ‘won’t target truck stops and services’
Published On: Wednesday 1 November 2017
The Road Haulage Association (RHA) has obtained an important clarification from the Driver & Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) regarding the recent tightening of weekly rest enforcement policy – which appears [...]
TC vows to put non-compliant fleets out of business
Published On: Friday 27 October 2017
Kevin Rooney, the new traffic commissioner (TC) for the West of England (pictured, right), gave attendees at the FTA’s transport manager’s conference in Somerset an insight into the workings of [...]
Iveco consultant Peter Symons mounted a spirited defence of diesel as a heavy-vehicle fuel before discussing alternatives at the FTA transport manager’s conference in Sparkford, Somerset. “Is diesel dead?” He [...]
Big fleets ‘in firing line’ on emissions control sabotage
Published On: Tuesday 24 October 2017
Operators caught knowingly running vehicles with damaged, missing or sabotaged emissions-control systems will face action against their O-licences, the DVSA has warned. Speaking at the FTA’s transport managers’ conference in [...]
Nigel Morris, tax director at MHA MacIntyre Hudson, offers advice to help HGV operators cope with recent overnight allowance changes Under a 26-year-long agreement between the Road Haulage Association (RHA) [...]
Tougher fines on the way for drivers’ hours breaches
Published On: Friday 20 October 2017
The Driver & Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) has vowed to ramp up its enforcement effort against truck, bus and coach drivers caught breaking drivers’ hours rules, thanks to wider-ranging fine-issuing [...]
Transport for London (TfL) has published the first of the ‘star ratings’ for its HGV Direct Vision Standard (DVS), which it will use to decide which trucks will be allowed [...]
The transport industry is failing to retain the relatively small number of young people that it recruits to truck-driving, the Freight Transport Association (FTA) has admitted. Addressing the FTA’s transport [...]
