DAF Trucks celebrated its twenty-third year of truck market leadership in 2017, claiming just under 30 per cent of new truck registrations. At 13,301, it put almost twice as many [...]
Transport industry training providers are launching programmes to help commercial vehicle operators and drivers counter the risk of their vehicles being deployed in terrorism, in the wake of increased ‘vehicle [...]
Lee Sadd, senior trainer at SAMS Ltd, assesses the current safety landscape of the HGV sector Despite the myriad ways in which health and safety has improved our lives, it’s [...]
DVSA reveals earned recognition pilot participants
Published On: Thursday 1 February 2018
The Driver & Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) has published a full list of all the HGV and PSV operators taking part in the pilot of its earned recognition scheme, which [...]
The Driver & Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) has confirmed that over 100 operators, some running as many as 80 vehicles, are under investigation after emissions control defeat devices were found [...]
Traffic commissioners’ report puts compliance in the spotlight
Published On: Sunday 21 January 2018
Shortages of good drivers, good managers and competent systems to maintain compliance are recurring themes in the annual report of Great Britain’s traffic commissioners (TCs) for 2016-17, which was published [...]
Transport for London (TfL) is having to rethink its proposed direct vision standard (DVS) for trucks, after the aborted publication of initial star ratings for the scheme revealed that most [...]
Transport trade groups have reacted with differing levels of enthusiasm to the news that an additional £44.5 million is to be given to France by the UK to help strengthen [...]
Although it starts 2018 with the most modern range of trucks and engines of any manufacturer, Scania is not seeking to achieve any greater share of new truck sales than [...]
