Paying the price for ineffective maintenance
Posted by AndrewT on 21st Aug 2018
A skip operator’s application to increase the fleet from two to six vehicles was refused and the licence revoked for poor maintenance. When the DVSA visited the operator, the examiner found no recorde
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Earned Recognition “the gold standard”
Posted by AndrewT on 15th Aug 2018
Earned Recognition was launched by the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) as business as usual at the CV Show in April. Since then over 50 organisations have achieved the Earned Recognition st
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DVSA’s Annual Review and 5-year strategy
Posted by AndrewT on 15th Aug 2018
The latest Annual Review from the DVSA sets out some of the work the agency will be doing in 2018-19 and reports on highlights from 2017-18.
278,000 roadside vehicle checks carried out
£3,900,000
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Managing basic vehicle safety checks
Posted by AndrewT on 13th Jul 2018
A recent study reported in CommercialFleet revealed that almost 20% of fleets surveyed did not carry out walkaround vehicle safety checks. 63% said they did conduct a walkaround check and the results
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DVLA guidance for professional drivers
Posted by AndrewT on 13th Jul 2018
The DVLA leaflets for Large Goods Vehicles (LGV) and Passenger Carrying Vehicles (PCV) drivers provide useful guidance for new drivers and are a good reminder for more experienced drivers. They will a
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Action against vocational licences for mobile phone offences
Posted by AndrewT on 12th Jul 2018
The Office of the Traffic Commissioner has issued a reminder that professional drivers caught using a hand held mobile phone whilst driving could face action against their vocational licence on top of
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Setting the standard with DVSA's Earned Recognition
Posted by AndrewT on 14th Jun 2018
According to a recent article in Commercial Fleet the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) believes the Earned Recognition scheme could set the standard and become the benchmark for operator com
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Are tachographs coming to vans to manage drivers’ hours?
Posted by AndrewT on 10th May 2018
In an attempt to regulate drivers’ hours of smaller commercial vehicles, proposals from members of the European Parliament’s transport committee would like to see all vans have a tachograph fitted by
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What do Smartanalysis users think of the DVSA’s Earned Recognition?
Posted by AndrewT on 27th Apr 2018
Following a twelve-month pilot, the DVSA’s Earned Recognition went live on April 24th. Descartes were part of the pilot as a validated systems provider for KPIs relating to tachograph data from Smarta
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1 in 20 drivers stopped have breached drivers’ hours law
Posted by AndrewT on 20th Apr 2018
The Driver & Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) reported that more than 1 in 20 of goods vehicle and bus drivers stopped in the past 12 months had breached drivers’ hours regulations.
In 2016/17, th
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Are HGV drivers the worst offenders for not wearing a seatbelt?
Posted by AndrewT on 27th Mar 2018
According to the results of a recent police operation in Suffolk evidence suggests they are!
Police in Suffolk issued over 200 Traffic Offence Reports (TORs) after targeting drivers of heavy goods ve
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3 in 4 drivers yet to complete 35 hours CPC
Posted by AndrewT on 19th Mar 2018
According to research carried out recently by DCPC Training Contractor, Fleet Source, only 24% of drivers have completed the 35 hours CPC training required by 2019 with almost half at least 14 hours s
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On-the-spot fines for historic drivers' hours offences start on 5th March 2018.
Posted by AndrewT on 27th Feb 2018
As of Monday 5 March 2018 the DVSA will start issuing on-the-spot fines for historic drivers’ hours offences committed in the previous 28 days.
In a single roadside check, DVSA traffic examiners will
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Record number of drivers sent for retraining
Posted by AndrewT on 16th Jan 2018
In 2017 a record number of over 1.4 million drivers were sent to offender retraining courses by the police. This includes more than one million caught for speeding offences. The first year these cours
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Is it time to close volumetric drivers’ hours loophole?
Posted by AndrewT on 19th Dec 2017
The Mineral Products Association (MPA) has called for action to regulate volumetric concrete mixers - some of the largest vehicles on the roads.
Volumetric concrete mixers operate with no effective w
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Everything you wanted to know about the DVSA's Earned Recognition Pilot
Posted by AndrewT on 29th Nov 2017
The DVSA's Earned Recognition Pilot inviting road transport operators to share maintenance and tachograph data will help the authorities focus their efforts on non-compliant operators. The DVSA presen
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Compliance concerns will impact your growth plans
Posted by AndrewT on 1st Nov 2017
Cases on non-compliance can not only affect your business now but can also have a detrimental impact on your future growth plans as a recent case in Swindon highlights where a breakdown and recovery f
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What does it take to be a transport manager?
Posted by AndrewT on 13th Oct 2017
The position of transport manager is a vital one for all transport operators regardless of size.
Transport managers need to have good repute and be professionally competent. A ‘dangerously incompeten
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