Goods vehicles
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Many goods or passenger vehicle operators with operator’s licences stumble over “Periods of Grace”. Some lose their licences by not navigating them correctly. No licence may mean no business. So, what...
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When are vehicles regarded as being used for Operator’s Licence purposes? Is your operator’s licence large enough to cover all the vehicles in possession in use? These issues have been...
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Question: what is the difference in legal maintenance standards required of a business pulling its own trailers compared to when it is drawing those of third parties? Answer: there is...
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Yet more possible changes to driver licence entitlements are under consideration, following the changes in November 2021, from when, as you may recall, Category B licence holders (cars and light...
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You will recall from previous articles that if no UK/EU Free Trade Agreement were concluded (i.e. “no deal”) international goods and passenger operators would be left without the ability to...
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A number of changes affecting Drivers’ Hours Rules and tachographs have come into force through Regulation (EU) 2020/0154. Here are some highlights. No regular weekly rests in cabs Regular weekly...
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The Department for Transport (DfT) has been relaxing the rules due to the current exceptional circumstances stemming from the COVID-19 situation. There are a number of temporary relaxations are now...
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The readily accessible amounts required by Standard National and International operator’s licence holders remain unchanged as follows, writes Tim Ridyard of Ashtons Legal: First vehicle: £8,000 Additional vehicles: £4,450 The...
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Fleets, HGVs, possible restrictions for new young drivers, older drivers, penalty points for no seatbelts and better drink-drive enforcement are amongst the very wide range of road traffic law issues...
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Changes we have flagged up in earlier posts this year are now in force through the Goods and Motor Vehicles (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2018 and make the following changes: Important...
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The Channel 4 Dispatches investigation aired on 9 April reported on a recent trend in the road transport sector: interference with lorries’ exhaust control systems that are in place to...
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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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