Drivers Hours

• Drivers’ Hours Penalties: 465% up!

  • PostedMarch 21, 2019

  The Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency has confirmed how there has been a massive increase in the number of drivers’ hours fixed penalties issued from March 2018 in the first...

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• Drivers’ hours: ‘historical’ offence penalties from 5 March 2018

  • PostedMarch 2, 2018

  Revised rules mean that police and DVSA examiners will be able to issue up to five fixed penalty offers to commercial drivers for drivers’ hours breaches that will now include...

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• Drivers’ hours offences – greater enforcement powers from March 2018

  • PostedFebruary 5, 2018

  Revised rules mean that police and DVSA examiners will be able to issue fixed penalty offers to commercial drivers for drivers’ hours breaches that are ‘historical offences’ i.e. they will...

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• Goods and Passenger Drivers’ Hours: changes relating to rests and fixed penalties

  • PostedNovember 3, 2017

  A change to the enforcement approach relating to weekly rests and where they can be taken came into force on 1 November 2017. Separately, a change in the scope of...

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• Drivers’ hours: Sharp increase in roadside fines to come into force

  • PostedOctober 9, 2017

  Two changes relating to fixed penalty offers issued by DVSA and police for tachograph and drivers’ hours offences are soon to be made. The maximum number of different offences for...

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