Brake Fade on Long Descents: Prevention and Survival

Brake fade kills on long hills, and the Highway Code's coasting rule is written for exactly that reason - the technique that keeps a 44-tonne service brake reserve intact.

Bridge Checks on Abnormal Routes: Indemnities and the Structures File

Heavy abnormal loads travel under indemnities to bridge authorities, and every structure on the route must be checked - how ESDAL handles bridges and what the haulier owes.

Bus Lane Enforcement: What Hauliers Need to Know

Bus lane signs carry hours, permitted vehicles and loading rules - get them wrong and the penalty notice arrives by post. The rules hauliers actually need.

Business Rates for Depots: What Your Yard Costs Before a Truck Moves

Business rates are charged on non-domestic property like depots and yards. How the bill is worked out, when you pay, and the reliefs that can cut it.

Capital Allowances on Vans and Trucks: The Menu That Decides Your Tax Relief

AIA up to £1m, full expensing, first-year allowances, writing down allowances - how capital allowances work for business vehicles, and why cars play by different rules than vans.

Car Transporter Rules: Heights, Weights and Securing for Vehicle Carriers

Load plan first, heavier vehicles low, and vehicles facing forward: the official guidance for dedicated car transporters, from load plans to the high-centre-of-gravity problem.

Carbon Reporting for Transport Contracts: What Customers Now Ask

Major government contracts above £5m a year now require suppliers' Carbon Reduction Plans - and freight customers increasingly ask for allocated emissions per consignment.

Carrying Fuel in Vans and Trucks: ADR Small Load Exemptions Explained

A jerry can in a van is dangerous goods carriage in law. HSE's guide to ADR small load exemptions - transport categories, the 333kg LPG example, and what still applies below the threshold.

UK CBAM Is Coming: The Carbon Border Records Your Import Customers Must Keep From 2027

The UK's Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism starts with record-keeping from 1 January 2027 for importers of aluminium, cement, fertiliser, iron, steel and hydrogen - with a £500 penalty for failing to keep records.

Subscribing to the Customs Declaration Service: The Gateway to Every UK Import and Export

The Customs Declaration Service is the only way to declare imports and exports to HMRC since CHIEF closed. What subscription unlocks - duty payment, postponed VAT statements, deferment Direct Debits - and how to get access in as little as two hours.

C or Straight to C+E? Choosing the Right HGV Test Route

How licence categories C and C+E work, the provisional entitlement rules, automatic upgrades when you pass a trailer test, and how to choose between the staged and direct routes into artic driving.

Chart Analysis: Reading Analogue Tachograph Records

Analogue tachographs cut speed, distance and activity traces into wax-coated charts with a stylus - and drivers must fill in the centrefield correctly. The analogue discipline.