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 [...]
No blame, no claim for health and safety from October
Published On: Tuesday 11 June 2013
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 [...]
Fine rise plans for driving offences including smoking and eating
Published On: Tuesday 11 June 2013
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 [...]
Senior TC to MPs: VOSA ‘not targeting the serially and seriously non-compliant’
Published On: Friday 24 May 2013
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 [...]
Government reviews its Driver CPC exemption guidance
Published On: Friday 24 May 2013
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 [...]
New government statistics show that UK road traffic has continued to fall, with the biggest reduction in vehicle miles coming from the heavy truck sector. Overall first-quarter vehicles miles are [...]
MAN Truck & Bus CEO Des Evans expects the emphasis in next year’s UK market to switch to used trucks, in spite of it having spent €1.6 billion on Euro [...]
The Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC) claims that the much-touted shortage of LGV drivers will be brought to a head by the Driver CPC in 2013/14. It said that category [...]
‘Half of NI hauliers’ could be fuelling illegal diesel ‘epidemic’
Published On: Friday 10 May 2013
More than half of hauliers in Northern Ireland could be using cheaper, illegal diesel to fill their tanks, the Northern Ireland Assembly has been told — giving them an illegitimate advantage over law-abiding [...]
