Truckfest Peterborough

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Truckfest Peterborough

We will be at Peterborough with our trucks in all their glory for the Truckfest event on April 30 and May 1.

This is the first Truckfest of the year’s calendar so why not come along and see us at the Est of England showground.

Visitor parking is free and available on site. Limited disabled parking spaces are also allocated, please display your blue badge on arrival to the show.

Among the entertainments will be:

Monster Truck Car Crushing Action. See the mighty Swamp Thing and Slingshot in action.
Broke FMX. …
Slingshot Ride Truck. …
Lots of trucks on display! …
Owaysis…
Twist of Rock. …
Sound Injectors. …
Gladness

Why not come along and say hello?

Fuel prices are climbing dramatically

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Fuel prices are climbing dramatically

Our fuel prices have risen by 15p per litre in the last two weeks.

But we are not alone.

According to the Road Haulage Association (RHA) following a meeting with the All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for Road Haulage & Logistics its chairman MP Greg Smith said fuel costs are “the most urgent issue facing road haulage”.

Add in the costs of regular vehicle servicing and price pressure is growing.

RHA executive director of policy and public affairs, Rod McKenzie, said: “Our members have seen operating costs increase 17% for an HGV – it costs an extra £20,000 per year just to fuel one truck…we must reduce the tax burdens on our sector and address our skills shortage which otherwise will hinder UK growth”.

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Road haulage coronavirus updates

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Road haulage coronavirus updates

More information on all the following is available on the RHA website here.

Driver medicals.

On 17 April 2020 the Department for Transport announced temporary changes for applying for renewing vocational licenses. The changes apply to HGV drivers over 45 whose licences are due to expire, or have expired, since 1 January 2020.

Under this scheme, HGV drivers aged over 45 will be able to apply for a temporary 1-year licence, providing they do not have any medical conditions that affect their driving.

For HGV drivers over 45 years old & whose licence is about to expire, DVLA should have sent the D47 application form to renew the licence.

Temporary relaxation of driver hours rules

The information about this is on the Government website here.

The drivers’ hours relaxations apply from 00:01 on Monday 23 March 2020 and will run until 23:59 on Sunday 31 May 2020.

Anyone driving under the EU drivers’ hours rules or the GB drivers’ hours rules and undertaking carriage of goods by road can use the relaxations where necessary. The relaxations are not limited to specific sectors or journeys.

Operator licence renewals

RHA is reminding hauliers that they still need to renew their licences despite the lockdown if they are still working, but it can be done online. See this link: https://www.rha.uk.net/news/coronavirus-updates/operator-licence-renewal

The RHA has also written to the Government to stress that many hauliers have been affected by the lockdown and urging it to provide some help.

It calculates that nearly50% of lorries are now parked up, especially those hauliers whose businesses depend on work in the construction, removals, waste recycling, car transporting, retail, manufacturing, events and fuel sectors.

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National Pothole Day

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Our business efficiency depends on our being able to deliver on time

January 25 was National Pothole Day!

One of the election manifesto pledges made by our now newly-elected government was to spend up to £25b to upgrade key roads across the UK over the next 5 years, or which £2b would be spent on fixing the ever-growing problem of potholes.

Motorists will know the damage they can do to cars, but they can affect lorries even more severely.

The Road Haulage Association (RHA) is pushing the Government to honour its pledge.

Now that the decision to leave the EU is nearing being finalised the haulage industry will need to be even more competitive and efficient than it already is.

But that means that the roads we travel on must be fit for their purpose.

The FSB (Federation of Small Business) has calculated that local authorities received over 700,000 complaints about potholes and other road defects during 2018, that’s a pothole complaint every 46 seconds!

RHA Policy Director for England and Wales, Duncan Buchanan, said: “It is vital for road safety, and the competitiveness and productivity of UK businesses that highway authorities properly maintain our roads.”

For the sake of our customers, we can only support this demand for urgent action.

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