Year: 2019

FOR MANY professional lorry drivers in the UK the deadline to complete their driver CPC periodic training and maintain their current card is approaching. Drivers who haven’t already done so, need to make sure they […]

BULLET Express has purchased over 180,000sq.ft of land behind their Baillieston storage centre to build a £5m multi-temp storage warehouse. This purchase has been driven by the ‘phenomenal response’ to the company entering the storage […]

SMART tachographs, which were introduced on 15 June 2019 will aid compliance with the drivers’ hours rules, but any claims of financial benefits to businesses are misguided, according to the FTA which refutes claims made […]

THE AUTOMOTIVE sector’s importance to the UK is crucial, says the SMMT. Over the past ten years, it has grown by 118% to become a £101 billion trading powerhouse, the single biggest exporter of goods, […]

RHA CHIEF executive, Richard Burnett has responded to the ministerial statement on EU exit preparedness which focuses on the movement of ‘category 1’ goods such as medicines. He said that ‘no-deal’ plans still need significant […]

COMMERCIAL Vehicle Auctions Ltd will open for business this autumn from new premises at Livingston, with the first sale on Thursday 3 October. CVA say they will have the widest possible range of vehicles and […]

FTA HAS reacted to Leeds and Birmingham Councils’ decision to delay the start of their Clean Air Zones, by saying it was the only step available to them, and the right thing to do. FTA […]

DVLA IS no longer accepting any medical reports on lorry drivers from the company Doctors on Wheels, following an investigation by Trading Standards and the DVLA into claims that D4 medicals were not being completed […]

FTA IS calling for the government to include vans in its consultation on banning 10 year old tyres. With more than 4.2 million of these vehicles on UK roads, van operators must be held against […]

TRISCAN Group, manufacturer and supplier of fuel management systems, are fuelled for further growth with the acquisition of Liquid Management Solutions Ltd. LMS, based in Wolverhampton, have been providing a range of fuel management systems […]