Earlier in the month there was an increase in the cost of flights at London airports due to the cost in Air Passenger Duty (ADP). This increase in price was met by unhappy customers as a price increase always is, but that wasn’t the end of it there has been a recent proposal that airports want to yet again increase their price they are charging airliners for using the three main London airports, Stansted, Gatwick and Heathrow. (more…)

You may be shocked to find out that one in ten drivers within the UK admit that they have fallen asleep at one point in time behind the wheel. People are well aware of the dangers of falling asleep behind the wheel but many continue to do so with a staggering 43% of people saying they get less than the recommended seven to eight hours sleep a night but yet still get behind the wheel the next morning, one in four people also have said that they have felt drowsy enough to fall asleep behind the wheel. (more…)

The requirements to do with the building guidelines of Lorries like length, width and design were set back 30 years ago when environmental issues and safety features weren’t thought about as much as they are today. Many things often change with the times and other cars and vans and other type of road vehicles that share the routes with Lorries are far superior in terms of safety features, this also comes with the recent ambitions of the times for improving environmental use as many charities and companies set up in order to cut down emissions not to add the introduction of hybrid vehicles and further low emission vehicles that we now see everyday on today’s roads.

Lorries today as we know it as extremely bad from an environmental point of view because well frankly a lorry’s shape resembles that of a brick, at best. Most of us will realise that bricks aren’t the most aerodynamic objects, this in mind the new design is set to be far more aerodynamic which will help everyone the lorry companies will cut their fuel bill, the environment will be cleaner because less fuel is used and it will see profit for the companies that are receiving the lorries haul as its a more cost efficient process. The new greener lorry of the future, all from just making the shape more aerodynamic seems all too simple.

As well as being more fuel efficient it will also make it a lot safer for other drivers on the road. Lorries as you can image if in the event of a collision cause severe damage and majority of the time deaths, the introduction in the new lorry of a large crumple zone will spread the force of impact across the front of a lorry giving smaller cars much more of a chance of coming away from the collision unfazed. On top of this the new regulations rules that will be set in place will require the windscreen on a lorry to be larger which will reduce the amount of accidents as windscreens on lorries today aren’t adequate for the size of the vehicle. These improvements could save hundreds of lives each year and also help the environment what could possibly go wrong?

If I am hiring a car will I need a DVLA check? The answers to this depend purely on one thing. If you don’t have a counterpart or second part of your licence then you will be required to have a DVLA check. This can be awkward because the DVLA only have certain hours of operation and you can often be left stuck if you don’t arrive at the hours that the DVLA check is meant to be taking place since for a DVLA check you must be present at the location when it is to take place due to data protection purposes. (more…)