A committee of MPs has criticised the Department for Transport’s (DfT) ‘piecemeal and stop-go’ approach to funding for road maintenance in England, which it says “has made it difficult for [...]
CV operators warned as ‘cash for crash’ scams up by half
Published On: Wednesday 24 September 2014
The Freight Transport Association has warned professional drivers to be on the lookout for ‘crash for cash’ fraud – in which accidents are deliberately caused in order to file compensation [...]
Reports indicate a huge variation in standards between Driver CPC providers. Some, it is said, offer little more than a route to compliance, with trainers making little or no attempt [...]
Prohibitions on foreign trucks, and tachograph and hours convictions for their drivers, outnumbered those imposed on British-registered LGVs during 2013-14. Replying to a parliamentary question, Transport Minister Claire Perry reported [...]
Volvo Trucks is expanding its model range in Europe with a new version of the Volvo FE running on 100 per cent methane gas. The Volvo FE CNG (Compressed Natural [...]
10 September was the deadline by which all professional ‘acquired rights’ lorry drivers needed to have completed their first block of Driver CPC periodic training, in order to continue working. [...]
The DVSA is to lower the fees it charges for annual tests for trucks, buses and trailers at authorised testing facilities (ATFs), but raise them for tests carried out at [...]
Fleet operators have four weeks from today (28 August) to apply for the remaining allocation of longer semi-trailers as part of the government’s 10-year longer trailer trial, transport minister Claire [...]
The Driver & Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) has said it will be taking a more robust approach to vehicles with defective fuel systems, following a Highways Agency report on the [...]
