New traffic commissioners (TCs) electric vehicles have been appointed for the North West England and Wales areas: Gerallt Evans and Victoria Davies replacing the outgoing Simon Evans and Nick Jones, [...]
No new ‘smart’ motorways with dynamic hard shoulders are to be built, according to Highways England chief executive Jim O’Sullivan. He said the roads, on which hard shoulders are opened [...]
Steve Banner reports from the DAF Apprentice College DAF’s apprenticeship scheme has just demonstrated how effective it can be when it comes to producing high-quality young employees. Held at the [...]
Steve Banner reports from the opening of MAN Truck & Bus’s new Gateshead dealership MAN has invested £5m in a wholly-owned dealership on a 3.3-acre site on the Team Valley [...]
The Freight Transport Association (FTA) has said many of the UK’s truck drivers have been deprived of the human right to sanitation as a result of the lack of toilet [...]
Andrew Galliers, senior manager, and Sean Turner, VAT advisor, at accountancy firm Menzies LLP, discuss the potential impact of proposed free ports on HGV operators The UK government has recently [...]
Driver shortage fears worsen as immigration from EU plummets
Published On: Tuesday 19 November 2019
The much-feared Brexit cliff-edge has receded once again, with contingency planning put on ice as the UK set out on the road to a Christmas general election, in a bid [...]
The government has stated its intention to bring the law around the use of mobile phones “into the twenty-first century”, to ensure those using handheld phones in any capacity while [...]
Fleets with HGVs over 12 tonnes gvw operating in Greater London can now apply for their safety permits as required by Transport for London’s (TfL) Direct Vision Standard (DVS) scheme. [...]
