• Driver CPC: six months left for PCV, and no last-minute reprieve

    Published On: Monday 11 March 2013

    The deadline for bus and coach drivers to complete their Driver CPC periodic training is just six months from today – and the Freight Transport Association has warned that those [...]

  • Owens opens Carmarthenshire ATF

    Published On: Sunday 10 March 2013

    Logistics provider Owens Road Services has opened its own VOSA-approved Authorised Testing Facility (ATF), at its Riverside depot in Llangennech, Carmarthenshire, following the closure of VOSA’s own test station in [...]

  • Foreign lorry charge passed into law

    Published On: Thursday 7 March 2013

    The HGV Road User Levy Act 2013, whose effect will be to charge foreign trucks for the use of UK roads, has received royal assent and been passed into law, [...]

  • Victory for UK in overheight trailer fight

    Published On: Wednesday 6 March 2013

    The European Commission has dropped its plans to limit UK trailer heights to four metres. The planned rule, had it gone ahead, would have prevented British operators from using some [...]

  • ‘Last orders’ for Driver CPC, warn training firms

    Published On: Wednesday 6 March 2013

    With less than 200 days to go before the Driver CPC training deadline for PCV licence holders, both passenger and freight sectors of the transport industry are still not sufficiently [...]

  • Truck thefts rise steeply

    Published On: Wednesday 6 March 2013

    That National Business Crime Intelligence Bureau has warned of an explosion in truck theft since the start of the new year, with 40 vehicles being taken in the week before [...]

  • 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 [...]