• RHA seeks to raise DCPC training standards

    Published On: Friday 19 September 2014

    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 [...]

  • Foreign trucks get more prohibitions

    Published On: Thursday 18 September 2014

    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 [...]

  • Pure methane to fuel new Volvo FE

    Published On: Tuesday 16 September 2014

    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 [...]

  • Driver CPC deadline passed

    Published On: Wednesday 10 September 2014

    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. [...]

  • Annual test fees to fall for most test sites

    Published On: Friday 29 August 2014

    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 [...]

  • Last chance to join semi-trailer trial

    Published On: Thursday 28 August 2014

    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 [...]

  • DVSA clamps down on defective fuel systems

    Published On: Wednesday 27 August 2014

    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 [...]

  • FTA highlights lorry drivers’ migrant problems at Calais

    Published On: Thursday 21 August 2014

    The Freight Transport Association (FTA) has said the Foreign & Commonwealth Office should act on behalf of hauliers over what it calls the ‘worsening migrant situation’ in Calais. In a [...]

  • Road user levy raises £17m from foreign hauliers

    Published On: Friday 15 August 2014

    The Department for Transport (DfT) has announced that the Treasury has benefited by more than £17m since the introduction of the HGV Road User Levy, which charges foreign trucks for [...]