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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
