The Guide to Maintaining Roadworthiness requires defect reports and safety inspection records to be kept for at least 15 months. What the rule covers and how to run it.
The Guide to Maintaining Roadworthiness demands safety inspections, brake tests, driver defect reports and records you can produce. What DVSA expects to find when they ask.
MTD for Income Tax now applies to sole traders over the qualifying income thresholds - £50,000 from April 2026 and £30,000 from April 2027. What qualifying income means, when owner-drivers are caught, and what signing up involves.
Analogue charts have a manual-entry area for a reason, and digital cards need manual input for time away from the vehicle. What drivers must record by hand, when, and what auditors look for.
Military drivers stage through tests like everyone else - but full-time serving members get a one-application concession, and MT permits are not exchange documents.
Drivers who split their week between tachograph-scope and GB domestic work face two rulebooks at once. How the mixed-driving rules work and how to keep the record straight.
Section 54 of the Modern Slavery Act 2015 requires larger transport businesses to publish an annual statement on the steps they take against modern slavery. Who is caught, what turnover counts, and what the statement covers.
Delivery riders need a provisional licence plus CBT - valid 2 years - then theory and practical tests. Moped from 16, helmet always, and what car-licence holders can already ride.
The annual test is a snapshot; the operator licence demands continuous roadworthiness. What the Guide to Maintaining Roadworthiness says about the difference - and where the legal bar really sits.
Continuous insurance enforcement means an uninsured vehicle that is not declared SORN brings a £100 fine, clamping, impounding - even court fines up to £1,000. How askMID and DVLA records fit fleet admin.
Designated councils outside London can now enforce bus lane and moving traffic contraventions - DfT statutory guidance sets the rules. What camera-enforced yellow boxes, banned turns and weight limits mean for fleet routes.
Every VAT-registered business is now inside Making Tax Digital for VAT, with HMRC enrolling new registrations automatically. What the rules still demand - digital records, compatible software, digital links - and how exemption works.