News of the revised charges to the Dartford Crossing have not gone down well with users. After the Road Minister Mike Penning yesterday announced measures to improve the crossing would include a price hike, both the FTA and ABD have [...]

Volvo, long renowned for their development of car safety equipment, has come up with a world first on its incoming V40 hatchback – the pedestrian airbag. The question is – how does it work? In Europe 14% of traffic fatalities [...]

Wednesday 23 May 2012. Fleet Voice Column. Without wishing to sound like a Monty Python impersonator, what has motorsport ever done for us, eh? We see it on the television every weekend now the sun is out and summer is [...]

Taxes are not sufficiently reinvested in local roads. That’s the verdict of 85% of company car drivers surveyed as part of the RAC’s 24th annual Report on Motoring. The report – which included the opinion of 1,002 company car drivers [...]

Motor dealer giant Arnold Clark has described many young Scots as “unsuitable” for work, according to the BBC today. The comment was made during a submission to the Scottish Parliament before a summit on improving employability in the country. It’s [...]

The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) intends to increase driving license fees from April 2013. The consultation launched today contains three options: Apply the common driver fee of £20 to provisional and 5-yearly renewal applications for vocational driving licences; [...]

Stand-in becomes permanent Volvo MD Nick Connor has been named Managing Director of Volvo in the UK on a permanent basis following months as Acting MD. Stepping up from his role as Sales Director, Mr Connor took over the reins [...]

One in four business leaders have already making use of -or are considering introducing -alternative fuel vehicles to their business operations as oil prices remain stubbornly high. That’s according to a new report from business advisory firm, Grant Thornton, which [...]

The Toyota Motor Corporation has sold four million full hybrid vehicles worldwide. Over a tenth of the hybrids bearing a Toyota or Lexus badge went to buyers in Europe (423,000 units) while UK motorists have snapped up 94,000 hybrids since [...]

Isuzu will start delivering its new D-Max pick-up from July. With the pick-up attracting over 7,500 expressions of interest so far and plenty of attention at April’s CV Show, Isuzu is expecting a unique-in-class five-year/120,000-mile warranty to contribute towards some [...]