Every tachograph must be installed, calibrated and sealed by approved centres on fixed cycles. The intervals, the triggers for recalibration, and what happens when a unit breaks down.
Vehicle unit data every 90 days, driver cards every 28 days, 56 days of records for international journeys, UTC clocks and manual entries - the tachograph data rules operators must systematise.
Digital and smart tachograph basics for operators: company cards, driver card use, download deadlines, and how long to keep the data.
Driving abroad needs more than a licence: V5C, insurance certificate, VE103 for hired vehicles, UK sticker, emission permits and country equipment. The GOV.UK checklist for operators.
Most licence decisions happen on paper, but applicants and transport managers can face written questions or be called before the Traffic Commissioner. How to show up ready.
When a transport manager leaves, the licence's professional competence is immediately in question. The 28-day notification duty and the grace periods available.
The transport manager CPC is the qualification behind every standard O-licence. What the qualification covers, the routes to holding it, and how to prepare.
The transport manager CPC does not expire, but knowledge does. When refresher training is expected, when it is effectively ordered, and what a good course covers.
The TM1 declaration is where a transport manager commits to the statutory duty in writing. What the form records, and why the Traffic Commissioner reads it literally.
Rule 98 covers licence limits, roadworthiness, loading, mirrors, secondary couplings and the motorway lane ban - the complete pre-tow checklist for commercial drivers.
Trade plates let dealers, traders and testers move unregistered, untaxed vehicles legally. Who is eligible, what the plates allow, and the misuse that gets them taken away.
Red circles are prohibitive orders, plates below qualify them, and for a large vehicle the weight, width and height signs are the ones that end journeys. A professional refresher on reading UK signs.