• More vehicles exempt from EU hours rules

    Published On: Wednesday 4 February 2015

    GB or domestic drivers’ hours rules apply to some 7.5-tonne and livestock transport vehicles, instead of EC drivers’ hours rules, from 2 March. The changes are the result of new [...]

  • Road user charge fines top £450,000

    Published On: Tuesday 3 February 2015

    Penalty charges totalling £450,000 have been issued since the HGV road user levy – which is designed to bill foreign operators for use of UK roads – was introduced last [...]

  • London’s HGV Taskforce reports enforcement success

    Published On: Wednesday 28 January 2015

    Transport for London (TfL) has announced that the capital’s Industrial HGV Task Force (IHTF) has issued more than 1,000 fixed penalty notices to unsafe and non-compliant HGVs since its operations [...]

  • Drivers’ wages rising as diesel prices drop

    Published On: Tuesday 27 January 2015

    A steep fall in fuel prices has eased financial pressures on British hauliers, but many may face a commensurate increase in employment costs as competition for competent, qualified drivers increases. [...]

  • Euro 6 drove truck market down nearly 30% in 2014

    Published On: Monday 26 January 2015

    The hangover from 2013’s last-minute, Euro 6-fuelled boom is being blamed by truck manufacturers for the near collapse in sales of new trucks last year. While registrations of vans up [...]

  • Simpler standard for headlamp testing on the way

    Published On: Saturday 24 January 2015

    The Driver & Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) has announced it has come to an agreement with the Department for Transport regarding the introduction of a simpler testing standard for heavy [...]

  • Updated ATF contract ‘to offer more flexibility’

    Published On: Friday 23 January 2015

    DVSA has published an updated contract for the authorised testing facility (ATF) network, following feedback from ATF operators during recent trials. The new contracts are said to provide increased flexibility [...]

  • Consultation launched on ‘umbrella’ companies

    Published On: Sunday 18 January 2015

    The government has launched a consultation over so-called umbrella schemes: overarching contracts of employment (OACs) where an intermediary company provides temporary employees to work at a number of different companies. [...]

  • FTA concern over Scottish LEZs

    Published On: Saturday 17 January 2015

    The Freight Transport Association has expressed strong concern about what it calls “the unusually short timescales” proposed by the Scottish government for implementing low emission zones (LEZs) north of the [...]