Trade groups: fleets need finance to weather Covid-19 storm
Published On: Thursday 16 April 2020
The road transport industry’s trade body representatives have called on government to boost financial support for the sector and hasten the delivery of measures already promised, to help fleets to [...]
The Road Haulage Association (RHA) has provided health, cleaning, hygiene and social distancing guidance for fleet operators to help protect drivers against the spread of Covid-19. In its daily coronavirus [...]
Covid-19 forces Direct Vision Standard postponement
Published On: Monday 13 April 2020
London mayor Sadiq Khan has asked Transport for London (TfL) to delay the enforcement of the Direct Vision Standard (DVS) scheme, as well as upcoming changes to the low emission [...]
DVSA suspends periodic tacho calibrations and inspections
Published On: Thursday 9 April 2020
The Driver & Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) has announced that periodic tachograph calibrations and inspections on vehicles are to be suspended, due to the Covid-19 pandemic.To ensure vehicles with tachographs [...]
Note: This article was accurate as of publication on 9 April, but the DfT relaxations detailed below have since been extended to the end of May, with some exceptions. Please see [...]
Fleets stand firm and deliver as coronavirus crisis bites
Published On: Sunday 5 April 2020
Faced with what was undoubtedly proving its biggest test in modern times, the road transport industry was responding with composure, agility and determination to the Covid-19 crisis as lockdown measures [...]
The Department for Transport (DfT) has enacted temporary changes to allow truck and bus drivers unable to complete compulsory Driver CPC (DCPC) training to continue to drive. This article was [...]
The manufacturing operations of Europe’s major truck brands were feeling the full effect of Covid-19 last month, forcing firms to announce the temporary closure of various production units across the [...]
Transport for London (TfL) and the London boroughs suspended the low (LEZ) and ultra low emission zones (ULEZ), the congestion charge, and the Lorry Control Scheme last month as they [...]
