At the Microlise Transport Conference held in Coventry on 19th May 2018; Richard Burnett, the chief executive of the Road Haulage Association (RHA) gave Government guidance to local authorities a scathing review.
During his conference speech, Mr Burnett drew attention to three consecutive court cases on air quality involving the non-profit environmental law organisation ClientEarth. Stating that the end result of the third case; that government must instruct local authorities to take action on air quality in 33 towns & cities,…
New roadside breathalyser technology and a new approach to road casualty investigation.
Government announces bold package of measures to improve road safety
Measures include £350,000 for a competition to bring a new mobile breathalyser to the market
£480,000 for the RAC Foundation to trial an innovative new approach to road casualty investigation, looking more closely at what is really causing road collisions
Drink drivers are to face swifter justice thanks to new roadside breathalyser technology that will allow police to…
If you are interested in joining the Earned Recognition Scheme; please follow this link.
From 24 April 2018 the new Earned Recognition Scheme came into effect, adding a Blue category to the risk scores.
If you run transport in your business and you run under an operator licence, regardless of what type of licence you hold,I.E.; restricted, standard national international, you will fall into one of the categories below OCRS (Operator Compliance Risk Scores):
Grey - New Operators…
In view of the EU-Mandated changes, that are required to become domestic law within the next two years; The Frieght Transport Association (FTA) has called upon the DVSA to review the delivery of Driver CPC (DCPC).
With Brexit fast approaching, the government have laid out that all European Law in operation by 23rd March 2019 will be adopted into domestic legislation. They have also given no indication that the DCPC will be scrapped after Brexit.
In their call to action, the FTA…
As of Monday, 23rd April 2018 there is a new edition to the DVSA's "Guide to Maintaining Roadworthiness" which features a number of major changes.
A brief summary of the major changes is as follows:
The Inspection table in Annex 4 has been updated following feedback to cover a vast range of time-based frequencies for vehicle inspections.
Information related to IT systems used in Vehicle Maintenance Systems, as well as information on Electronic Braking Performance Monitoring Systems available in other…
As we mentioned in a previous news post; both the DVSA and the Office of the Traffic Commissioner have been enacting a crackdown on vehicles and operators found to be using AdBlue cheating devices.
Recently released figures show that between August 2017 & February 2018, nearly 400 trucks where found to have such a device installed; with the breakdown showing that that UK-registered vehicles are more likely than foreign-registered vehicles to have the devices installed. Of 4339 UK-Registered vehicles checked, 261…
In 2016/17 DVSA made nearly 90,000 checks to ensure that commercial drivers weren’t driving for longer than allowed, risking fatigue-related accidents. The outcome is that more than 1 in 20 (5.3%) of drivers had broken the rules on maximum driving hours. British drivers are also slightly more law abiding than foreigners, with 5.1% of British drivers flouting the rules against 5.9% of their foreign counterparts.
It's worth noting that the figures has fallen since 2015/16, when the overall offending rate was…
On 28th March 2018, Transport Minister Nusrat Ghani announced a new Ultra-Low Emission Bus Scheme aimed at cutting emissions and ensuring cleaner and greener journeys.
Local authorities and operators in England and Wales will be able to bid for a share of a £48 million fund; setup to help fund new ultra-low emission buses as well as the infrastructure to support them.
For more information, check out the full article on the Gov.uk website here.
In a new push against the use of emulators; devices designed to bypass or disable the AdBlue systems installed on a vehicle, both the DVSA and the office of the Traffic Commissioner have said they will take a 'Dim View' of any operator whose vehicles are found to have the devices installed.
In a recent incident, the presence of such a device was the grounds for the revocation of an operators' license and the office of the Traffic Commissioner have warned…
As of May 2018, the new regulation of the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulations) comes into effect.
The general conceit behind the latest version of the regulation, is to simplify the assorted collection of legislation which presently covers all data protection under a single legal framework.
Failure to comply with the latest change can result in fines of up to €20 million or 4% of their annual global turnover.
For more information, please visit the Information Commissioner's Office website or follow this link.