Legal

Road Legal

Vehicle law
Roadworthiness, vehicle testing and weights and dimensions – here's how to keep your fleet running.
Hours, tachographs and the WTD
How much work can your drivers do – and what records are you legally required to keep?
O-licence law
If you operate commercial vehicles, you almost certainly need an operator's licence. Find out how to apply for an O-licence, and how to keep it.
Roadside law
How your vehicle can be stopped on the road – and how to avoid it.
Health and safety
Transport is a risky business – here is the information you need to keep your employees safe.
Employment and company law
Hiring, firing, TUPE, conditions of work and directors' duties – stay on top of all the latest developments.
Environmental law
No operator can ignore the environment – here is what you need to know about your obligations.

Six drivers convicted of tachograph fiddling
- 24 May 2013
- By Roger Brown
Six drivers employed by Northern Ireland haulage firm Arnold Transport have been handed suspended prison sentences after investigators discovered tachograph-interrupter devices fitted to the … more
Plans to drop cabotage restrictions abandoned
- 24 May 2013
- By Chris Tindall
The European Commission (EC) has backed down on plans to remove all cabotage restrictions next year amid concerns it would prove too complex and disruptive.

Following lobbying from UK and European … more
Direct Deliveries (Scarborough) appoints liquidator, after incurring debts of nearly £700,000
- 24 May 2013
- By Ashleigh Wight
North Yorkshire haulier Direct Deliveries (Scarborough) is to be wound-up owing nearly £700,000.The Scarborough-based company was licenced to run 25 vehicles before the firm and its creditors … more

Mounting Concerns
- 22 May 2013
- By Roger Brown
Accidents involving lorry mounted cranes can be catastrophic and life changing.

Overturning is a risk if stabiliser legs are either partially deployed or not used at all; injuries to third parties … more
Belt up
- 13 May 2013
- By Roger Brown
We all know seat belts save lives but some truck drivers seem to think it’s only other people’s lives that need saving - how else to explain the stubborn refusal by so many to belt up as a … more
Pollution solution
- 07 May 2013
- By Roger Brown
Breaches relating to water discharges are covered by the Environmental Permitting (England and Wales Regulations) 2010 but what can you as an operator do to avoid such incidents happening?

As part of … more