Leading trade associations have today welcomed the Department for Transport’s (DfT) announcement that the speed limit for lorries on single carriageway roads in England and Wales is to be raised [...]

The House of Commons transport select committee has called on HGV operators to improve their road safety record with regard to cyclists. In a report published on 14 July, the [...]

The 2013-14 report on quality assurance and compliance for Driver CPC training has been released by the DVSA and JAUPT, the training approvals unit for the scheme. The bodies carry [...]

A leading transport solicitor has warned that proposals to allow fixed penalty notices to be issued at the roadside for drivers’ hours offences committed in the preceding 28 days may [...]

Hauliers operating from or into Scotland face a period of uncertainty if the Scottish people vote for independence this autumn. It should be remembered, though, that a victory for the [...]

Newly-qualified truck drivers are reportedly presenting themselves for Driver CPC training, not realising that they have to achieve the Driver CPC initial qualification by examination, which means passing modules two [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]