• RHA issues Covid-19 driver health guidance

    Published On: Thursday 16 April 2020

    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 [...]

  • Drivers’ hours rules relaxed to keep UK running

    Published On: Thursday 9 April 2020

    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 [...]

  • DCPC enforcement curtailed by Covid-19

    Published On: Friday 3 April 2020

    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 [...]

  • Virus disrupts truck manufacture across Europe

    Published On: Thursday 2 April 2020

    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 [...]

  • Virus prompts regulatory reprieve in London

    Published On: Wednesday 1 April 2020

    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 [...]

  • Dealerships pull out stops to keep fleets moving

    Published On: Tuesday 31 March 2020

    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 [...]