HGVs over 3.5 tonnes need vehicle tax applied for with form V85 at a Post Office that deals with vehicle tax. How HGV tax works and how it sits alongside the road user levy.
Almost all workers get 5.6 weeks' paid holiday - agency, irregular-hours and part-year included, with accrual by hours worked. The 28-day cap, bank holiday options, and sick-leave accrual.
'Reasonably practicable' is the standard - employers must protect workers and others affected by the work. HSWA's core duties, the supporting regulations, and what they mean in a depot.
Improvement notices, prohibition notices, prosecution, fee for intervention and a public convictions register - how HSE's enforcement machinery works and what triggers each level.
HSE charges £188 an hour under the Fee for Intervention scheme for the time it takes to identify what is wrong and help you put it right. How FFI works for transport yards, workshops and operating centres.
Hydrotreated vegetable oil works in most modern diesels without modification - but it pays full diesel duty. Duty treatment, RTFO certificates, emissions claims and when HVO stacks up.
Government-backed zero emission HGV demonstrations are running with tens of millions in funding - battery electric leads, but the ZENFreight consortium is building hydrogen refuelling alongside charging at 7 sites.
Most businesses holding personal data must pay the ICO's data protection fee - between £52 and £3,763 across three tiers, set by turnover and staff numbers. Which tier a transport business falls into.
Idling burns fuel to produce nothing and adds to freight's vehicle-borne emissions - but anti-idle policies fail without answers for cold cabs and hotel loads.
HSE's workplace transport guidance addresses managers responsible for recruiting and training drivers - a training matrix turns that duty from memory into system.
Operators doing their own safety inspections must have the correct equipment and adequate facilities for their fleet size - it's a licence requirement, not a nicety. What the rules demand.
Fleet insurers price regulatory health - your O-licence status, your OCRS band, your test history. What underwriters ask, why they ask it, and how to present your fleet well.