Choosing Tachograph Analysis Software: What the Law Expects You to Get Out of It

The rules demand 28-day card downloads, 90-day VU downloads and real analysis. What analysis software must deliver to meet that duty - and the traps in choosing on price alone.

Choosing a Transport Management System: A Buyer's Guide

A TMS touches orders, planning, drivers, POD and invoicing - the Future of Freight's digital vision made operational. How to choose without buying a decade of regret.

CIS for Haulage: When Muckaway and Aggregates Work Pulls You Into the Construction Scheme

Under the Construction Industry Scheme, contractors deduct from subcontractors' payments - 20% registered, 30% unregistered, 0% with gross payment status. When haulage work counts as construction and what to do.

Civil Enforcement Officers: Who Can Ticket Your Truck and Under What Rules

Parking enforcement moved from the police to local authorities under the Traffic Management Act 2004. The civil enforcement regime - CEOs, PCNs, adjudicators - and what it means for working trucks.

Claims Handling: Protecting Your Position After an Incident

The hours after a loss decide the claim months later - the evidence habits, notification deadlines and insurer discipline that keep a bad day from becoming a bad year.

Class 7 MOTs: What Your Vans Need and Where

Goods vehicles between 3,000 and 3,500kg test as class 7 - and zero-emission vans between 3,501 and 4,250kg now join them. The class rules for van fleets.

Climate Change Levy on Business Energy: What Depots and Workshops Actually Pay

Climate Change Levy sits on business electricity, gas and solid fuel bills. Current and announced rates, the exemptions hauliers should know, and how climate change agreements cut the main rates by up to 92%.

The CMR Note: What International Hauliers Must Complete

A CMR consignment note is mandatory on every commercial international road journey - three copies, defined contents, and it doubles as the contract of carriage.

Commodity Codes and the Trade Tariff: The Ten Digits That Price Every Import

The commodity code on an import declaration sets the duty rate, import VAT, licence requirements and access to preferential rates. How the Trade Tariff tool works, which goods are hard to classify, and why a supplier's code only travels six digits.

The Most Common HGV MOT Failures - and Why Most Should Never Happen

89% of lorries, PSVs and trailers pass the annual test first time - but lamps, headlamp aim and brakes top the failure list. DVSA's own data, and the walkaround checks that would catch them.

Common Transit and the T1: Moving Goods Under Customs Suspension

The Common Transit Convention lets goods move across borders with duty suspended until destination. How NCTS, guarantees, the TAD and the T1 declaration fit together for hauliers.

Construction and Use Regulations Explained: The Rulebook Under Every HGV

What the Construction and Use Regulations and the Authorised Weight Regulations cover, how the two parallel weight regimes work, what vehicle plates mean, and why operators can be prosecuted per axle.