• Recovery agents given red light approval
    • 17/10/2023
    • Posted by: Alan Feldberg
    • Category: News
    Breakdown and recovery vehicles will be permitted to use red flashing lights according to the government’s Plan for Drivers. The change in legislation to permit breakdown vehicles to be fitted with rear-facing red flashing lights when recovering broken-down cars is not expected to come into force until 2025, but [...]
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  • Road fatalities surge 10%
    • 03/10/2023
    • Posted by: Alan Feldberg
    • Category: News
    A new report from the Department for Transport (DfT) has revealed a 10% rise in road fatalities from 2021 to 2022. It found that there were 1,711 fatalities on UK roads last year, up from 1,558 in 2021. However, this uptick is partly down to the lifting of Covid-19 restrictions, with the 2022 figure actually two [...]
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  • Autoglass warns against MOT revamp
    • 03/05/2023
    • Posted by: Alan Feldberg
    • Category: News
    The Department of Transport (DfT) consultation on its proposal for new vehicles to require an MOT test after four years rather than three concluded in late March. This is the second proposal following the government’s suggestion of shifting the annual MOT to a two-year cycle last year. Although the result of the [...]
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  • Drug-driving trend on the rise
    • 24/03/2023
    • Posted by: Alan Feldberg
    • Category: News
    New data has revealed a 260% rise in drug-related driving casualties between 2012 and 2021. According to the Department for Transport (DfT), there were almost 2,500 casualties in relation to drug-driving in 2021. Meanwhile, Criminal Justice System Statistics (CJSS) have disclosed that the number of drug-driving [...]
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  • Industry backs IMI stance on MOT extensions
    • 22/03/2023
    • Posted by: Alan Feldberg
    • Categories: Featured, News
    As part of its response to the Department for Transport’s MOT Consultation, The Institute of the Motor Industry (IMI) has revealed that nearly nine in 10 members believe extending the date of the first MOT or frequency of MOTs would increase road user risk. Hayley Pells, policy manager at the IMI, said: “We [...]
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  • IAAF urges new government ‘not to mess’ with MOTs
    • 28/10/2022
    • Posted by: Simon Wait
    • Categories: Featured, News
    The Independent Automotive Aftermarket Federation (IAAF) is urging Mark Harper, the new secretary of state for transport, not to mess with the current MOT test frequency and instead look to strengthen the current 3-1-1 testing regime through the addition of testing the vehicle’s electronically controlled safety [...]
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  • Gender gap revealed in collision statistics
    • 12/10/2022
    • Posted by: Alan Feldberg
    • Category: News
    New research has revealed that male drivers in Great Britain are three times more likely than women to be involved in a road collision that injures of kills a pedestrian. The data has revealed that 4,363 male drivers were involved in incidents compared to 1,473 females during 2020 and the first six months of [...]
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  • Record number of 100-year-old drivers
    • 27/04/2022
    • Posted by: Alan Feldberg
    • Category: News
    There are more than 133,000 drivers aged 90 or over in the UK, according to data analysed by car leasing comparison website LeaseLoco, while the number of drivers over the age of 100 has also reached a new high. The most up-to-date driving licence data from the Department for Transport revealed that the number of [...]
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  • VMs call for delay to ICE ban
    • 07/05/2021
    • Posted by: Alan Feldberg
    • Category: News
    Some vehicle manufacturers are asking for a five-year delay to the government’s 2030 ban on the sale of new petrol and diesel cars. Transport secretary Grant Shapps said that many had expressed concerns about meeting the 2030 deadline during the Second Zero Emission Vehicle Transition council meeting held at the [...]
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  • NAB discuss salvage with the DfT
    • 12/11/2015
    • Posted by: Simon Wait
    • Category: News
    The National Association of Bodyshops (NAB) met with Barry Sheerman, MP and chairman of the Parliamentary Advisory Council on Transport Safety, (PACTS) and Maria Ullah at the Department for Transport (DfT) to discuss their concerns surrounding motor vehicle salvage control and the risks it presents to the [...]
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