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• Road Transport Is The Most Heavily Legislated Industry In
this country, so it can be very difficult for operators to keep abreast of the law. Frequent changes to regulations covering drivers hours and Construction and Use, can bewilder......
Tax Rate
Q For the past three years I have had my 38-tonne tractor based at the docks. I take trailers on the ferry for delivery to Spain and I normally return with an empty trailer to......
Site Centre
Q I employ 14 drivers on tipper work in the south London area. My operating centre is in south-east Sussex. On occasions we get a contract lasting six months or more which means......
A I Don't Think You Need To Specify The Site In Relation...
Section 92(1) of the Transport Act 1968 describes an operating centre as the base or centre from which the vehicles are, or are intended to be, normally used. The key is that......
A Yes, He Is Right, But If You Were To Take
your vehicle on to a British highway with a loaded trailer, you would be liable for the full rate.......
Speed Appeal
Q I am wonderng whether to appeal against a conviction for speeding. I was driving along a dual carriageway at 11.30 one night in January in my Ford Transit and I did not know I......
A The Traffic Signs (speed Limits) Regulations And...
(Si 1487) Part II, Paragraph 4, state that every terminal sign of size 1 or 2 shown in a numbered diagram when erected on a trunk or principal road within 50 metres of a street......
Rocky Road
Q The Trading Standards officers visited our local quarry weighbridge and took away a large number of weigh tickets, among them mine and those of six other hauliers who deliver......
.a The Seizing Of Weighbridge R - Ntickets In Itself Is Not
proof that you contravened the Construction and Use Regulations. If you were tipping the excess, then you have nothing to concern yourself with.......
Tacho Checks
Q How often do we have to check our drivers' tachograph records? There doesn't seem to be any laid-down time and some Licensing Authorities seem to think we have to check every......
A I Know Of No Specific Requirements With Regard To The
checking of tachographs except in the context of the EEC Regulations 3520/85 Article 15 (1) and (2) — (2) says: "The undertaking shall make periodic checks to ensure the......