• 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 [...]

  • An ‘assured future’ for Scania as part of VW

    Published On: Wednesday 18 June 2014

    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 [...]

  • UK ‘to take only 28,000 new trucks this year’

    Published On: Wednesday 18 June 2014

    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 [...]

  • DfT consults on new spot fines for truck drivers

    Published On: Monday 16 June 2014

    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 [...]

  • Mandatory CO2 monitoring planned for heavy vehicles

    Published On: Friday 13 June 2014

    The European Commission (EC) has released a report laying out in detail its strategy to cut carbon emissions by heavy-duty vehicles (HDVs) – the EC’s blanket term for trucks, buses [...]

  • Northern Ireland authorities not enforcing foreign lorry tax

    Published On: Thursday 12 June 2014

    Disagreement between Whitehall and Stormont has meant that the HGV Road User Levy is not being enforced by authorities in Northern Ireland, as the devolved administration attempts to negotiate further [...]

  • 2018 tachograph enforcement changes revealed

    Published On: Thursday 12 June 2014

    Details of upcoming changes to European tachograph legislation due to come into force in 2018 have been revealed by tachograph analysis and training specialist Tachodisc. The changes concern a procedure [...]

  • DVSA launches new OCRS report for operators

    Published On: Wednesday 11 June 2014

    The Driver & Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) has announced the launch of a report said to help operators better understand their Operator Compliance Risk Score (OCRS), the mechanism DVSA uses [...]

  • Heavy-duty DAFs for the UK market

    Published On: Monday 2 June 2014

    DAF has returned to the heavy-haulage market with a full range of four-axle Euro 6 CF and XF-cabbed specialist vehicles, including, for the first time from DAF in the UK, [...]