• Hauliers ‘counting cost’ of Forth Bridge closure

    Published On: Tuesday 15 December 2015

    Major trade associations have welcomed the Department for Transport’s (DfT) decision to temporarily relax drivers’ hours regulations for vehicles which would normally use the Forth Road Bridge, since it was [...]

  • Green light for driver apprenticeship scheme

    Published On: Tuesday 15 December 2015

    Both the Freight Transport Association (FTA) and Road Haulage Association (RHA) have praised the decision by skills minister Nick Boles to approve the HGV Driver Trailblazer Apprenticeship, with FTA calling [...]

  • RHA: don’t wait for driver deaths to prompt Calais action

    Published On: Tuesday 15 December 2015

    Road Haulage Association (RHA) chief executive Richard Burnett has again spoken out about what the association calls an “untenable situation” for HGV drivers as a result of increased migrant activity [...]

  • Fuel costs still fleets’ biggest challenge, research finds

    Published On: Saturday 12 December 2015

    New research commissioned by Barclaycard has reportedly found that reducing fuel mileage costs remains fleet managers’ single largest concern, with 33 per cent of those questioned highlighting it as a [...]

  • FORS delivers free DCPC ‘Staying Legal’ courses

    Published On: Tuesday 8 December 2015

    The Fleet Operator Recognition Scheme (FORS) is offering free Driver CPC-accredited ‘Staying Legal’ courses to its member operators on a number of dates in early 2016, while places last. Those [...]

  • DVSA proposes to beef up prohibition powers

    Published On: Friday 4 December 2015

    Online driving licence verification service Licencecheck has drawn attention to proposals by the Driver & Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) for its staff to be given the authority to prohibit vehicles [...]

  • Autumn statement: possible fuel duty hike and no driver training funding

    Published On: Friday 27 November 2015

    Transport operators could face a rise in fuel duty from April 2016, following the chancellor George Osborne’s notable failure to mention the levy – the rate of which has now [...]

  • MPs call for national network of LEZs

    Published On: Thursday 26 November 2015

    A recent debate in the House of Commons saw Members of Parliament discuss the potential for establishing further low emission zones (LEZs), similar to the one currently in operation in [...]

  • FTA: government must back industry on road to decarbonisation

    Published On: Thursday 26 November 2015

    The Freight Transport Association (FTA) has called for full government support to help the road transport industry achieve decarbonisation targets, following the recent publication of a report on the fifth [...]