Expert Legal Advisers to the Road Transport
Industry for over 30 Years
Keeping the wheels turning. For many businesses in many sectors, this turn of phrase has a figurative meaning; for commercial vehicle operations, the meaning is literal: the success of any transport operation relies on the continued turning of wheels on vehicles on roads. And given the importance of wheel-on-road, ensuring that those wheels turn safely […]
On 20th July 2021 the Government issued an open letter to the UK Logistics Sector, announcing its various plans to increase the number of lorry driving tests over the next few months and ongoingly. The shortage of HGV drivers has been known about for several years – we published an article on it in 2016 […]
One of the Oxford Dictionary definitions of an “audit” provides the following: “an official examination of the quality or standard of something” (Emphasis added). This definition bears a particular relevance to the context in which compliance systems auditing is used in commercial vehicle operations. It is not uncommon (and as we explain below, it has […]
The Department of Transport is looking to garner views on changes being made and adopted as part of the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement. These changes, already planned for Europe, will allow individuals and businesses to continue operating goods vehicles between the UK and EU. The new rules will apply for all UK individuals and […]