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 [...]
Truck manufacturers have been battling to maintain aftermarket support for UK customers through their dealer networks as the coronavirus pandemic takes hold. MAN has put an additional two months’ worth [...]
All annual testing of trucks, trailers and PCVs was suspended for three months from 21 March in Great Britain (England, Wales and Scotland), as the Driver & Vehicle Standards Agency [...]
The government has postponed controversial tax reforms to the IR35 off-payroll working rules for the private sector for a year, until 6 April 2021, as one among a series of [...]
Major industry trade events have been postponed and cancelled, following government advice to the effect that large gatherings should be avoided in a bid to curtail the coronavirus’s spread. Organisers [...]
