• No Phase V LEZ for trucks in 2015

    Published On: Wednesday 6 March 2013

    The RHA has welcomed an apparent decision by London’s Mayor Boris Johnson to back down from implementing ‘Phase V’ of London’s Low Emission Zone, which would have seen all heavy [...]

  • New Mercs set to steal CV Show

    Published On: Wednesday 6 March 2013

    Mercedes-Benz is to give world debuts to two important new truck models at the Commercial Vehicle Show on April 9-11. The Euro VI version of the Atego 6.5, a 16-tonne [...]

  • Operators will be reported to traffic commissioners for fraudulent fuel use

    Published On: Wednesday 6 March 2013

    HMRC has agreed a new protocol with the traffic commissioners and VOSA that should see offenders reported to the industry regulators – the TCs in respect of GB operators and [...]

  • Mercedes-Benz and dealers fined £2.6m for infringing competition law

    Published On: Wednesday 6 March 2013

    Mercedes-Benz and three of its commercial vehicle dealers (Ciceley, Enza and Road Range) have admitted to infringing competition law, and will pay fines totalling £2.6 million, the Office of Fair [...]

  • CV Show organisers reveal latest event news

    Published On: Wednesday 6 March 2013

    More than 400 exhibitors have now signed up to attend this year’s Commercial Vehicle Show, which takes place on 9-11 April at the NEC Birmingham. The total floor area booked [...]

  • First new Volvo FH reaches customer

    Published On: Wednesday 6 March 2013

    Six months after its world launch, the first production example of a new Volvo FH has been delivered to a customer. Jean-Pierre Ducournau, who runs Transports Ducournau near Toulon in [...]

  • Illegal trucks purged on Anglesey

    Published On: Wednesday 6 March 2013

    Police, VOSA and other government agencies found legal or roadworthiness faults in 80 per cent of trucks they stopped in a targeted operation in Anglesey. Officers from North Wales Police’s [...]