• Surplus of Driver CPC training centres is good news for operators

    Published On: Wednesday 17 July 2013

    There are nearly three times as many Driver CPC (DCPC) training centres in operation as were anticipated, and more than enough capacity to train everyone before the September deadlines this [...]

  • Fatal coach crash prompts coroner tyre age warning

    Published On: Wednesday 17 July 2013

    A coroner has announced that he will write to the Department for Transport to address the issue of ageing tyres, following a coach accident last September which resulted in the deaths [...]

  • Agencies launch combined clampdown on non-compliant Midlands hauliers

    Published On: Wednesday 17 July 2013

    Government forces in the West Midlands have been combining their efforts to crack down on suspected tax evasion and other criminal activity within the haulage industry. HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) led the [...]

  • Renault Trucks launches full Euro 6 line-up

    Published On: Wednesday 17 July 2013

    Renault Trucks has unveiled its complete Euro 6 range. It has replaced the distinct Magnum and Premium families with four ranges sharing common styling and two cab shells: Distribution, Construction, [...]

  • London bid to make trucks ‘safer for cyclists’

    Published On: Wednesday 17 July 2013

    Transport for London (TfL) is to lobby the UK’s Department for Transport and the European Union to tighten up exemptions that allow many construction vehicles to operate without sideguards and [...]

  • Bodied Eurocargos to go back on forecourts

    Published On: Wednesday 17 July 2013

    Iveco is reintroducing its DriveAway Options programme on Eurocargo models, with a range of bodied 7.5-tonners available to buy from dealer forecourts nationwide. The DriveAway Options programme at 7.5 tonnes [...]

  • UK share of international traffic continues to decline

    Published On: Wednesday 17 July 2013

    UK-registered trucks now perform just 18 per cent of driver-accompanied haulage to continental Europe, as shown by the latest statistics from the Department for Transport.  The first quarter of 2013 [...]

  • VOSA publishes recovery operators’ guide

    Published On: Wednesday 17 July 2013

    VOSA has published a ‘guide for recovery operations’, which it says is the result of a need for “further clarification around the complex legislation relating to operating recovery vehicles.” The [...]

  • Excise duty penalties threaten UK third-party logistics providers

    Published On: Wednesday 17 July 2013

    Some of Britain’s leading third-party logistics companies could be put out of business by penalties which HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) now has the powers to impose, warns the United [...]