Plumwood

VOSA releases some excellent data as a spreadsheet called The Heavy Goods Motor Vehicle Fleet 2010-11 consisting of 40 tables.

Owner-drivers face a further period outside the average 48-hour working week, maximum 60-hour week and the obligation to keep records for two years under the Working Time Directive.

Directors from Northern Ireland-based haulage company Boyle Transport have lost appeals against their sentences for conspiring with drivers to make false tachograph readings. 

A lorry driver has been fined £2,500 and sentenced to four days in prison for producing false documents and exceeding drivers’ hours regulations.

The owner of a truck who had it impounded by VOSA after it was discovered with no O-licence disc displayed, will not get it back. 

Letting maintenance standards slip even though he and his wife contracted serious illnesses, has resulted in Lung Wah Chong’s  O-licence being revoked.