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Driver CPC: training deadline reminder

10 September 2014 is the deadline to finish your first round of Driver CPC periodic training if you’re a lorry driver with ‘acquired rights’. Acquired rights are where you have obtained a Certificate of Professional Competence (CPC) through existing experience…

Tagged with: Driver CPC, theory test, training
Posted in Heavy Vehicle, News

NZ mandates electronic stability control on all cars – will this affect what you can buy?

Electronic stability control (ESC) is an electronic safety system that detect if your car is skidding. By selectively applying the brakes in varying forces individually on each wheel it helps the driver regain control. It’s so good that it’s estimated…

Tagged with: electronic stability control, ESC, New Zealand
Posted in Car, News

IAM embarrasses itself again with shonky research

The Institute of Advanced Motorists should stick to doing what it does most excellently: teaching people how to drive awesomely. It should stop doing poorly conducted and contradictory research. The latest embarrassment for the IAM is new research outlining what…

Tagged with: distracted driving, IAM
Posted in Car, Heavy Vehicle, News

M6 ‘smart motorway’ undergoing final testing in Birmingham

Over the weekend a section of the M6 in Birmingham was tested with a new ‘smart motorway’ scheme aimed at getting traffic moving. It’s the same system that has been used on the M62 between junctions 25 and 30 and…

Tagged with: gantry, hard shoulder, M6, M62, Regional Control Centre, smart motorway, speed limit
Posted in Car, Heavy Vehicle, Motorbike, News, Passenger Vehicle

Some rural roads may be abandoned through lack of funding

With the most recent bout of flooding due to the Thames bursting its banks, residents of rural towns are all too aware that water can be destructive. It accelerates the deterioration of roads and, faced with a £10.5 billion repair backlog…

Tagged with: Department for Transport, DfT, funding, potholes
Posted in Car, Heavy Vehicle, Motorbike, News, Passenger Vehicle

Highways Agency proposes new motorway speed cameras

If you drive on the M25, M1 or M6, the Highways Agency has you in its speed camera sights. It is proposing ‘stealth cameras’ – ones that are grey rather than bright yellow – to enforce the 70mph limit. Until…

Tagged with: Brake, fuel economy, M1, M25, M6, motorway, speed cameras
Posted in Car, Motorbike, News

What affects how people travel to work?

The European Commission has studied 112 European cities with populations between 100,000 to 500,000 residents to see what factors influence how people travel to work. The rationale is that work-related travel contributes to traffic pollution and traffic congestion and discovering…

Tagged with: car pooling, cycle lane, pollution, public transport
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