The Road Haulage Association (RHA) has published a legal notice ahead of a hearing by the Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) on 3-7 June, which will decide whether the trade body [...]
Leased trucks, vans and coaches that do not meet Euro 6 emissions standards may be exempted from the penalty charges to be imposed in the Birmingham clean air zone (CAZ) [...]
Highways England to join West Midlands enforcement efforts
Published On: Thursday 14 February 2019
Traffic officers working for Highways England may stop commercial vehicle drivers on West Midlands motorways, the Driver & Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) has announced, following a new agreement between the [...]
Steve Banner paid a visit to the manufacturer’s Used Trucks factory in Bourg-en-Bresse, France Not content with producing new vehicles, Renault Trucks has started manufacturing used ones, too. It is [...]
The Driver & Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) has said its enforcement teams may now pursue follow-up investigations of HGV, trailer and PSV operators found to be using tyres that are [...]
Lorry park ‘farce’ and ‘recruitment roulette’ as Brexit circus rolls on
Published On: Monday 28 January 2019
The scale of the operational impact of Brexit on the road transport industry remained as uncertain as ever as Transport Operator went to press in late January, following an historic [...]
Transport for London (TfL) is giving truck operators, drivers and the public a last chance to offer an opinion on its Direct Vision Standard for trucks operating in the capital, [...]
FTA policy manager Chris Yarsley warned delegates at the FTA Transport Manager Conference of an increasing number of environmental restrictions soon to be imposed on transport operators by local authorities, [...]
Operators sending trucks into Southampton docks no longer face the prospect of clean air zone (CAZ) charging, after the city council reportedly dropped plans to introduce a charge of £100 [...]
