Two new traffic commissioners have been appointed by the transport secretary Chris Grayling. Tim Blackmore, OBE will be traffic commissioner for the North East – replacing Kevin Rooney, who took over [...]
Local authorities are failing to spend enough on maintaining bridges on local roads to keep them open to heavy trucks, and £3.9 billion investment is required to restore them to [...]
New rules on night-out allowances, training levy and cab rest
Published On: Wednesday 8 March 2017
Hauliers face the new financial year with a number of changes to the way in which they have to manage drivers and payroll issues. These include alterations around night-out allowances, [...]
Truck manufacturers have called for a Europe-wide ban on devices intended to bypass selective catalytic reduction (SCR) diesel emissions control systems, after it emerged that so-called AdBlue emulator devices had [...]
Truck operators will soon be able to secure supplies of certified renewable biogas from a network of filling stations run by energy company CNG Fuels. The Solihull-based company is now [...]
A market free from legislative distortions such as the introduction of new exhaust emissions standards saw 46,231 new trucks registered in 2016, according to figures from the Society of Motor [...]
The Driver & Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) is launching a pilot this spring to test how its new ‘earned recognition’ concept will work in practice. Earned recognition is a voluntary [...]
Proposed reforms to the Driver CPC regulations from the European Union have met with a less than positive response from some in the industry. Concerns are being raised over the [...]
Faced, like most manufacturers, with a large stock of used Euro 5 vehicles, Scania opened a new dedicated used truck showroom in Warrington as Transport Operator‘s March edition went to [...]
