Daf Trucks is to showcase the first right-hand drive example of its new XF at Tip-ex this week.

Derbyshire haulier David G Davies & Sons has taken delivery of two of the UK’s first Iveco New Stralis XP tractor units.

Sunderland-based Thompson Waste is to pay more than £14,700 after it was found to have contributed to the illegal dumping of 585 tonnes of waste.

These are just a few of what, in our opinion, were the biggest and most important legal cases of 2017.

A Kettering-based earthmoving firm will have its O-licence revoked in February after it had been “far too slow to wake-up” after intervention from the DVSA.

A Walmersley, Greater Manchester-based operator will lose its O-licence next month after it was fined £300,000 following the death of a worker.

Traffic commissioner (TC) for London and the South East, Sarah Bell, took a “step too far” when she revoked a scaffolding company’s O-licence, a judge has said.

CM takes a look at some of the applications and decisions made this week.

A judge has quashed an appeal against the decision that saw Philip Higgs banned from holding a PSV O-licence, after he hired a private investigator to film former senior traffic commissioner (TC) Beverley Bell committing alleged motoring offences.

Traffic commissioner (TC) Kevin Rooney has stripped a Somerset-based groundworks firm of its O-licence, but said it could be brought into compliance with commitment and investment.

A truck driver who hid more than 750,000 illicit cigarettes inside rolls of paper that were stuffed with asbestos and concrete has been sent to prison for 21 months.

CM picks out some of the applications and decisions that were made this week.

The Mineral Products Association has renewed its call for volumetric concrete mixers to be brought into the O-licensing regime, almost three years since a consultation into the matter closed.

A Devon-based operator has won the right to have his case reheard after a judge ruled that a deputy traffic commissioner’s (TC) decision was flawed.

A Lithuanian HGV driver who hid half a tonne of tobacco among a load of boxes filled with plastic waste, disguised to look like a legitimate cargo, has been sent to prison for 15 months.

A Doncaster-based operator has been ordered to pay almost £25,000 after it repeatedly breached its environmental permit at its Tyne & Wear site.

We sit down with the West of England traffic commissioner to discuss some of the industry issues of the moment.

The DVSA handed out more than £1.5m in fines for drivers’ hours and tachograph offences last year after discovering 6,637 examples.

DVSA examiners will no longer be able to routinely stop vehicles operated by companies taking part in its earned recognition trial from 31 January.

CM looks at some of the O-licence applications and decisions that were made this week.

A plasterboard recycling firm has been prosecuted after HSE inspectors found it had no measures to protect pedestrians from coming into contact with moving vehicles at its site.

A County Tyrone-based company’s O-licence application has been remitted back to the Head of the Transport Regulation Unit (TRU), after a judge found allegations of fronting required further investigation.

CM looks at what operators should do if they wish to appeal a TC's decision or complain about their conduct.

Ontime Automotive has been prosecuted for health and safety failings after a worker was crushed by the upper deck of a vehicle transporter.

Own-account operator Howdens Joinery is to pay more than £1.2m in fines and costs after an agency driver was crushed to death when a forklift truck overturned.

We pick out some of the applications and decisions that were made this week.

A scaffolder that ran a vehicle without a valid MoT or Vehicle Excise Duty (VED) has been banned from the industry for two years.

Lancashire-based R Plevin & Sons has been fined £216,000 after a worker fell from a moving floor trailer and died.

West Midlands traffic commissioner (TC) Nick Denton has put his decision on whether to grant a potato merchant an O-licence on hold, after it was found to have borrowed a licence from another business.

The Environment Agency and HSE have joined forces in the North East to conduct compliance checks at waste and recycling sites.

The director of a haulage firm that operated without a transport manager for seven-and-a-half years, and deliberately misled the DVSA about the role, has been banned from holding an O-licence for three years.

Officers working under London’s Freight Enforcement Partnership have issued more than 9,114 fixed penalty notices and traffic offence reports from more than 33,000 vehicle checks at the roadside, two years since its launch.

The owner of a chilled food transport firm has been disqualified from holding an O-licence after two of his drivers were sent to prison for creating false tachograph records.

West Midlands traffic commissioner (TC) Nick Denton has refused to grant an O-licence to a firm that showed “no regard to the law” over several occasions.

A Mansfield-based operator has been ordered to pay more than £650,000 in fines and costs, following the death of a worker who was struck by a reversing vehicle.

An operator and transport manager who admitted to creating false maintenance records has been banned from holding an O-licence for seven years.

CM looks at some of the O-licence applications and decisions that were made this week.

A Swindon-based recovery firm has been denied an increase in fleet authorisation until there is clear evidence that it has eradicated drivers’ hours and overloading issues.

The HSE has said it is vital that companies have proper risk management procedures in place when vehicles and pedestrians are working together, after a recycling firm was fined £100,000 following “life-changing” injuries to an employee.

A “spectacularly ill-managed” removals firm will have its O-licence suspended for four weeks next month and will face revocation if it does not appoint a new transport manager.

Brake defects are the most common maintenance issue among UK HGVs, affecting around quarter of the vehicles found to be defective, according to the DVSA.

The traffic commissioners (TC) have called on operators to improve their approach to brake testing after warning that the issue of poor brake testing is appearing “far too frequently” during enforcement investigations.

The director of a waste collection and recycling company has received a suspended prison sentence after a worker was struck by a reversing telehandler and later died.

Plans for a permanent base for the Welsh traffic commissioner (TC) have stalled a year after he took up his full-time position in the country.

Drivers who cause death by dangerous driving or through driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs could face life in prison under plans to increase maximum sentences for such offences

A Mansfield-based sole trader has been disqualified from holding an O-licence for six months after he was found to be operating without a transport manager for a significant period of time.

The DVSA has clarified how it will enforce the ban on drivers taking their full weekly rest period in their cabs, assuring drivers that they will still be able to rest at a truck stop.

A timber and animal waste product haulier has been given a final chance to show it is compliant after a series of failings were identified by the DVSA.

CM picks out a few of the O-licence applications and decisions made this week.