• Remote enforcement office trial ‘makes good progress’

    Published On: Tuesday 18 February 2014

    There has been a positive response to the Remote Enforcement Office trial in the Western Traffic Area, according to VOSA successor organisation the Driver & Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA). Remote [...]

  • Cameras to enforce foreign truck charge in April

    Published On: Monday 17 February 2014

    The Department for Transport is to target foreign trucks for non-payment of the Lorry Road User Charge using live automatic number plate recognition technology when the toll is introduced on [...]

  • MPs quiz DVSA on non-compliance in London

    Published On: Monday 17 February 2014

    A recent evidence session of the House of Commons transport select committee saw MPs question the Driver & Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) on a high rate of vehicle non-compliance in the [...]

  • Traffic commissioner: some operators ‘no idea’ how to use tachos

    Published On: Friday 14 February 2014

    Nick Denton, the traffic commissioner for London and the South East, has raised concerns about some restricted licence-holders’ neglect of their legal duties when it comes to digital tachographs. The [...]

  • New fuel marker to help tackle laundering

    Published On: Thursday 13 February 2014

    The British and Irish governments have announced the introduction of a new marker for rebated fuels, including off-road ‘red diesel’, as part of a bid to clamp down on illegal [...]

  • DAF records strongest ever European performance

    Published On: Tuesday 11 February 2014

    A strong performance in the UK helped DAF Trucks strengthen its position in the European truck market last year (Transport Operator 33). In the heavy truck segment (16+ tonnes), a [...]

  • International guidelines on safe loads published

    Published On: Tuesday 11 February 2014

    The International Road Transport Union’s (IRU) International Commission on Technical Affairs (CIT) has published International Guidelines on Safe Load Securing for Road Transport “to promote safe load securing practices to [...]

  • Recovery firm in court after truck falls off jack

    Published On: Tuesday 11 February 2014

    A vehicle recovery firm in Hull has been prosecuted after a mechanic suffered a serious back injury when a 7.5-tonne truck fell off a jack, trapping him underneath. Fines and [...]

  • Particulate trap check signals start of emissions clampdown

    Published On: Wednesday 5 February 2014

    Diesel-engined vehicles that have had standard particulate trap exhaust aftertreatment devices removed will fail their annual tests from February, roads minister Robert Goodwill has announced. The tightening of testing to [...]