DVSA study underlines need for all-year-round maintenance
Published On: Thursday 22 September 2022
The Driver & Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) is asking operators to ensure they carry out regular maintenance throughout the year to mitigate against dangerous incidents, following a review it recently [...]
The DVSA and Department for Transport published guidance earlier this month on the requirement to manually record all activities for the current day and previous 28 days as part of [...]
Senior managers and directors from the German automotive sector recently formed part of a delegation to Canada aiming to obtain long-term supplies of hydrogen for Europe’s industrial powerhouse. The two [...]
TCs outline compliance priorities in annual report
Published On: Monday 12 September 2022
The traffic commissioners (TCs) of Great Britain have published their annual report to the transport secretary, emphasising a range of key compliance issues encountered by the regulators in the year [...]
Remote monitoring of the latest-generation tachographs introduced in 2019 is now happening in Great Britain, in a policy shift by the enforcement authorities. Initially following the tachographs’ introduction, the Driver [...]
The government has opened a consultation on its latest proposals to attract more drivers to the transport sector, specifically for medium-sized goods vehicles and minibuses. The Department for Transport (DfT) [...]
A Scottish housebuilder has turned truck bodybuilder and created its own multifunction tipper-dropside body for a new Volvo FMX 460 8×4 tridem truck. One of just two trucks operated by [...]
Cummins has expanded its product profile in preparation for net zero trucks with the completion of its $3.7 billion purchase of axle and brake specialist Meritor. Cummins says the move [...]
Sainsbury’s is to trial a hydrogen fuel cell powered refrigerated truck. Based on an Iveco ‘glider’ chassis, the trial vehicle has been funded by the UK government’s Road to Hydrogen [...]