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A livestock haulier is to be suspended from operating HGVs at the end of this month for not paying enough attention to safety and licensing standards. Fife-based Andrew Adams and partners, trading as A&Y Adams and Sons, won’t be able to operate any of their four...

A lorry driver who overturned his fully laden HGV on the M11, while driving four times over the legal alcohol limit, was sentenced yesterday (27 November) to 16 weeks in prison. Essex Police were called to an incident shortly before 11am on Saturday 25 November, following...

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. Birmingham-based Sleeptherapy Beds was discovered operating HGVs without an O-licence several times in 2017. One truck had also been driven...

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 of England traffic commissioner (TC) Kevin Rooney found that Bristol-based Adam Pawelczyk had committed “widespread and...

The owner of a structural steelwork firm who was reported for two speeding and two mobile phone offences has had his HGV driving entitlement suspended for 12 weeks. East of England deputy traffic commissioner (TC) Marcia Davis said that the offending by Princes Risborough, Buckinghamshire-based Mark...

The DVSA and the Office of the Traffic Commissioner plan to introduce two new functions to their Vehicle Operator Licensing system later this year. They plan to allow operators to renew their O-licence online. O-licences have to be continued every five years, and sometimes hauliers fail...

A campaign aiming to stop assaults on DVSA staff has been launched following claims that the agency has seen a 50% surge in incidences of abuse. The DVSA said that between April 2016 and March 2017, more than 300 vehicle testers, roadside enforcement staff and driving...

wo haulage companies have been fined after they were found to be illegally depositing waste on a site in Portadown, County Armagh. Carrickmore-based Brendan Loughran & Sons and Armagh-based Colin Donnelly, who trades as Donnelly Transport, were found guilty of unlawfully depositing waste at Craigavon Magistrates’...

Despite last year’s Brexit vote UK MEPs continue to help formulate laws in the European Parliament, including those that govern transport. Meanwhile, EU transport commissioner Violeta Bulc is meeting the transport committee to discuss the European mobility and transport package, part of an ambitious set...

A South Wales aggregates haulier had its O-licence revoked just hours after it attended a public inquiry after it operated vehicles in a lamentable condition. Traffic commissioner (TC) Nick Jones said that Swansea-based Brian Lee Hughes’ maintenance regime was “chaotic or non-existent” and roller-brake testing was...