The first year of a government-run alternatively-fuelled truck trial has seen participants travel 620,000 miles a month on gas, used cooking oil and dual (gas/diesel) fuels according to a new [...]
The number of deaths in road accidents has halved since 2000, according to statistics from the Department for Transport, with 1,713 people killed on the road in 2013. Recorded serious [...]
Demand for Driver CPC recovering as deadline nears
Published On: Wednesday 25 June 2014
Driver CPC training recovered from April’s slump in May, but did not reach levels recorded earlier in the year, possibly because of bank holidays during the month. Training providers blamed [...]
There will be no immediate legislation restricting the age of tyres that can be fitted to heavy vehicles, the Department for Transport has said. After a fatal crash on the [...]
There will be no U-turn on the road to greater compliance in Northern Ireland, the recently-appointed head of the Transport Regulation Unit (TRU) Donna Knowles told the Road Haulage Association’s [...]
Maximum magistrates’ court fines may increase four-fold
Published On: Friday 20 June 2014
Justice minister Jeremy Wright is proposing to increase the maximum fines imposable by magistrate courts four-fold: meaning that the ceiling for level four offences such as motorway speeding could rise [...]
Scania has an assured future as one of 12 brands that are part of the Volkswagen Group, the company’s president and chief executive Martin Lundstedt told Transport Operator, as the [...]
The hangover from the Euro 5 sales spike will last all year, according to Scania (Great Britain)’s managing director Claes Jacobsson. “Year-on-year we are well behind where we were last [...]
The Department for Transport has launched a consultation into proposals which would give enforcement officers new powers to issue on-the-spot fines to truck drivers for drivers’ hours and HGV Road [...]
