• Change afoot as hauliers steel themselves for Brexit

    Published On: Saturday 5 November 2016

    Even though the Brexit process has hardly started, hauliers are already experiencing changes both positive and negative as a result of the June vote for the UK to leave the [...]

  • DVSA reviews tacho centre rules

    Published On: Saturday 5 November 2016

    The Driver & Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) has been reviewing proposals to improve rules for approved tachograph centres (ATCs) which are responsible for the installation, calibration and inspection of tachographs. [...]

  • Call to make London LEZ Euro 6-only by 2020

    Published On: Friday 4 November 2016

    The Institute for Public Policy Research, which describes itself as “the UK’s leading progressive thintank” has urged further restrictions on diesel-engined vehicles in London to combat levels of air pollution [...]

  • Driver CPC card issuing changes

    Published On: Thursday 3 November 2016

    The Driver & Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) has announced changes to how Driver CPC cards are issued. For drivers who complete their periodic training more than 12 months before their [...]

  • High Court ruling could restrict urban hauliers

    Published On: Saturday 29 October 2016

    Fresh plans will have to be drawn up to reduce nitrogen dioxide levels in British cities following a High Court ruling that the current government strategy would not deliver legal [...]

  • MAN boss ‘surprised and disappoint­­­ed’ over RHA pricing action

    Published On: Tuesday 27 September 2016

    The first senior figure in the British truck industry to go public over the Road Haulage Association’s (RHA) decision to seek compensation for operators for the fixing of new vehicle [...]

  • Traffic Commissioner posts warning on mobile phone use

    Published On: Tuesday 27 September 2016

    Nick Jones, the traffic commissioner (TC) for the West Midlands and Wales, told the Freight Transport Association’s Transport Manager’s conference in Chepstow that he planned to do more about drivers [...]

  • IAA truck roundup

    Published On: Tuesday 27 September 2016

    The forthcoming tightening of Euro 6 requirements to Step C has spurred Europe’s heavy truck manufacturers to refine existing designs, and display them at the recent IAA Show in Germany. [...]

  • EC urged to take a holistic view on CO2 emissions

    Published On: Monday 26 September 2016

    The European Commission must not be drawn into the trap of regulating CO2 emissions from commercial vehicle operations by merely measuring the exhaust output of individual engines, Martin Lundstedt (pictured), [...]