• Weekend rest situation still unclear as DVSA issues new hours advice

    Published On: Wednesday 2 March 2016

    New advice from DVSA on EU drivers’ hours has been issued for goods vehicles; and it goes only a little way towards clarifying recent confusion over what drivers can and [...]

  • Charge electric truck prototype on trial

    Published On: Saturday 27 February 2016

    The prototype Charge electric truck is undergoing endurance testing at Millbrook. Developed by Charge R&D, an internationally-funded but UK-based high technology company, the new platform is designed to be used [...]

  • Tyre makers respond to cheap import threat

    Published On: Friday 26 February 2016

    Leading truck tyre manufacturers will fight the flood of cheap tyre imports from the east by emphasising their value-for-money ranges at the forthcoming Commercial Vehicle Show, which takes place at [...]

  • Living wage to launch in April

    Published On: Thursday 25 February 2016

    The Budget in July last year saw chancellor George Osborne tackle the issue of excessive welfare payments being made to those in work by putting the onus back on employers [...]

  • DVSA: don’t hire discs to other operators

    Published On: Wednesday 17 February 2016

    The Driver & Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) has reminded operators that the practice of lending or hiring vehicle operator licence (O-licence) discs is illegal, and can harm the repute of [...]

  • Tougher sentencing guidelines ‘a wake-up call’ for fleets

    Published On: Sunday 14 February 2016

    Driving licence checks provider Licence Bureau has warned that revised sentencing guidelines for health and safety breaches and corporate manslaughter introduced last month should act as “a major wake-up call” [...]

  • Trade groups react to phone penalty proposals

    Published On: Thursday 11 February 2016

    Both the Road Haulage Association (RHA) and Freight Transport Association (FTA) have responded to a recently launched consultation by the Department for Transport (DfT) into proposed increases in penalties for [...]

  • New expenses rules may prove taxing for transport firms

    Published On: Wednesday 10 February 2016

    Jim Wright, partner at corporate law specialist Shulmans LLP, assesses the potential impact of the 2016 Finance Bill on fleet operators After April this year, transport operators may need to [...]

  • FTA: fuel duty hike would be ‘irresponsible’

    Published On: Tuesday 9 February 2016

    Ahead of the chancellor George Osborne’s Budget statement on Wednesday 16 March, the Freight Transport Association (FTA) has warned that a fuel duty increase would be “economically irresponsible”. The statement [...]