HGV driver disqualified for poor records and ignoring breaks
Posted by AndrewT on 18th Dec 2015
A West Midlands HGV driver was been disqualified for over twelve months for failing to observe required breaks and keeping poor records. The Traffic Commissioner for Wales and the west Midlands, Nick
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Temporary relaxation of drivers’ hours due to Forth Road Bridge closure
Posted by AndrewT on 9th Dec 2015
The Department for Transport has agreed to a temporary relaxation of EU drivers’ hours and working-time rules for drivers involved in the distribution of freight and passenger services whose journeys
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False tachograph records shrinks the fleet for coach operator
Posted by AndrewT on 3rd Dec 2015
A coach operator has had its fleet cut from 91 to just 35 vehicles following a Public Inquiry with the Traffic Commissioner for the North of England.
The operator’s staff were subject of a long trial
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Tachograph cheat is banned for three years
Posted by AndrewT on 24th Nov 2015
An Aberdeen-based owner-operator has had his O-licence revoked and been disqualified from driving HGVs for three years after using magnets to interrupt digital tachograph recordings. The public inquir
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False tachograph records lead to busload of problems for coach firm
Posted by AndrewT on 20th Nov 2015
A coach operator, whose staff were prosecuted at Crown-Court over false tachograph records is now facing a two-day public inquiry in Leeds on December 1. The Office of the Traffic Commissioner for the
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Descartes launches e-consent to speed up the process for checking driving licences
Posted by AndrewT on 30th Oct 2015
Gaining consent from a driver to allow licence checking is now a quick and simple 2-step electronic process with SmartLicence.
Since the abolition of the paper driving licence paper counterpart in Ju
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ADLV Urges for regular licence checks to identify high risk drivers
Posted by AndrewT on 24th Sep 2015
The ADLV (Association for Driving Licence Verification) www.adlv.co.uk is calling for fleet managers to make more regular checks on driver licence entitlement. This includes quarterly checks for vocat
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O-licence revoked for drivers’ hours offences
Posted by AndrewT on 25th Aug 2015
Numerous records and drivers’ hours offences led to a haulage firm based in Motherwell being stripped of its O-licence. The offences were unearthed by the DVSA in an investigation where they identifie
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Temporary relaxation of drivers’ hours
Posted by AndrewT on 30th Jul 2015
The Department for Transport (DfT) has agreed to a temporary relaxation of EU drivers’ hours rules to help drivers that are delayed due to industrial action or disruption at Calais with the following
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Descartes Tachograph Analysis & SmartLicence Bureau Relocates
Posted by AndrewT on 30th Jul 2015
The Descartes Tachograph Analysis and SmartLicence Bureau relocated on 23rd July. The Bureau now has new telephone and fax numbers.
Anyone wanting to call the Bureau should dial 01249 463355 and sel
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Have your say on the conduct of professional HGV, bus and coach drivers
Posted by AndrewT on 17th Jul 2015
The commercial vehicle industry has been invited to contribute to a consultation on how Traffic Commissioners deal with the conduct of professional truck, bus and coach drivers. The consultation was l
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DVSA take new steps to focus on serially and seriously non-compliant operators
Posted by AndrewT on 22nd Jun 2015
The DVSA has reiterated its intent to free up resources to tackle the worst offending transport operators.
Caroline Hicks, DVSA Head of Enforcement, has said in the past that she wanted to “completel
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SHA-1 end of support notice
Posted by AndrewT on 4th Jun 2015
If you are running Windows XP take action now.
Background
Due to weaknesses found in the algorithm, the IT Industry has agreed to end of life the use of SHA-1 (Secure hash algorithm) for the signing
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Haulage firm shut down over drivers’ hours breach
Posted by AndrewT on 29th May 2015
Banned from running haulage firm after failing to give drivers rest breaks to comply with drivers’ hours requirements.
Joan Aitken stripped the Operator Licence for Heavy Goods Vehicles (HGVs) for Mi
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Suspended prison sentences for breaching tachograph and drivers' hours regulations
Posted by AndrewT on 15th May 2015
A coach driver admits falsifying tachograph records and was handed out a six-month jail sentence suspended for two years and ordered to pay £500 costs after admitting five breaches of the regulations.
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