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For decades, many categories of “specialised” heavy vehicles have been exempt from the requirements to have a valid Goods Vehicle Testing Certificate as well as to have plates fitted which display the limits set for their maximum operating weights (both, of which, have long been standard fair for most heavy goods vehicles). Now the law […]
Climate change and global warming; carbon footprints, clean energy and low emissions. This is the language of the modern era. Whilst there are various schools of thought on the causes, impact and potential solutions to climate change (or, in the case of the 45th president of the United States of America, whether or not the […]
The 1st March 2018 marked the anniversary of the increase in severity of fixed penalties for using a mobile phone while driving, increasing this from three points and a £100 fine to six points and a £200 fine. Since then more than 26,000 motorists have been caught driving whilst using a mobile phone, and of […]
Following a legal challenge from the Bus and Coach Association, the Department for Transport opened a consultation on 8th February 2018 on the scope and use of Section 19 and Section 22 permits. Sections 19 & 22 of the Transport Act 1985 permit organisations which operate on a not-for-profit basis to obtain permits exempting them […]