April saw the largest number of drivers yet complete their 35 hours of mandatory training in order to acquire Driver CPC cards. The deadline for drivers from the passenger sector [...]

Headlamp aim remained the top reason for trucks failing their annual tests in 2011-12, according to the latest report from VOSA, with nearly 11 per cent of HGVs presented for [...]

Key industry and political figures have welcomed the revelation that a formal investigation is underway by the European Commission into the issue of oil price-fixing. In mid-May, EC officials carried [...]

Volvo Trucks has revealed the Euro 6 versions of its FL and FE (pictured) middleweight trucks, with two new engines: the six-cylinder 7.7-litre D8K and the four-cylinder 5.1-litre D5K. The FE [...]

Plans to further liberalise the European road transport market by lifting current restrictions on cabotage – the transportation of goods within one country by operators registered elsewhere – have been [...]

The days of businesses being held ‘strictly liable’ for accidents that take place on their premises even if they are unavoidable or not their fault are numbered, after changes to [...]

A wider range of driving offences will be covered by fixed penalty notices, which will increase from £60 to £90 if proposals currently under consideration are approved. Besides covering offences [...]

The senior traffic commissioner, Beverley Bell, has raised serious concerns to MPs about perceived weaknesses in VOSA’s transport enforcement regime. Bell’s comments came during an outspoken appearance at a recent [...]

Advice previously published by the Department for Transport (DfT) and the Driving Standards Agency (DSA), regarding exemptions from the requirement to hold a Driver CPC, has been removed from the [...]