Nearly half of motorists who clock up 12 points on their licence are still able to drive, according to a survey out this week. The road safety charity Brake and Direct Line Insurers have joined forces to commission a research study on the subject.
The figures do fluctuate, but the study has flagged up that more than 10,000 drivers have retained their licence despite totting up more than twelve points.
When a licence holder reaches 12 points the Magistrates must disqualify for a minimum period of 6 months. To escape a ban the driver and their Solicitor must present to the court an Exceptional Hardship argument . Click here to read more »
To mark the start of the UN Decade of Action for Road Safety a campaign to overhaul the learning to drive system in this country has been launched. Road safety charity Brake’s ‘Too Young to Die’ campaign urges the government to introduce graduated driver licensing (GDL) in an effort to curb some of the more reckless driving behaviour exhibited by younger people.
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One of the largest ever investigations into tachograph falsification has ended in the jailing of two directors of Boyle Transport.
Patrick Boyle and his son Mark were sentenced to two years and 18 months respectively after they pleaded guilty to conspiring with drivers to make false tacho records.
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As pay packets freeze, household bills fly through the hole in the roof that needs repairing and job certainty becomes a misty-eyed concept from days of yore, an interesting report from Which? initially provides a modicum of comfort.
The consumer watchdog found that we are all paying only slightly more for fuel now than we were in 1980.
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There’s an old joke about how many bureaucrats it takes to change a light bulb. More specifically is how long does it take, and if you replace light bulb with the law regarding diabetics and class C1 driving entitlement then the answer is 16 months and counting with no guarantee the law will be changed.
But first some history. In 1991 anyone with diabetes who relied on insulin injections to control their condition was banned from driving heavy goods vehicles.
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“Not just a short, sharp shock”. By the time this blog is published we’ll know if BBC weather forecasts are correct and we are in the middle of one of the earliest and most significant snowfalls for 17 years.
If so then the country’s motorists and the road transport industry will once again be heavily reliant on salt and its availability to help keep us all moving.
The Highways Agency says it has learned lessons from the previous two winters and has “strengthened its capability to face extended spells of severe weather.”
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