Light Goods Vehicles, often known as ‘white van man’, are involved in twice as many accidents as HGVs and have an MOT failure rate of 50%. Furthermore, in VOSA checks, light goods vehicles are prohibited six out of ten times, and when weighed, these vehicles are overweight three quarters of the time.

Motorway service areas are charging up to four times the high street price for basic food and drinks, according to research conducted by road safety charity, the Institute of Advanced Motorists (IAM).

Roads Safety Minister Stephen Hammond has announced that the Vehicle and Operator Services Agency (VOSA) and Driving Standards Agency (DSA), are to merge into a single agency bringing together their testing and standards services.

Crown Worldwide Group has moved to new premises in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.

International Assignment Return on Investment.

Small companies will have to reveal less information in annual financial statements as a result of a red-tape cutting measure formally accepted by a vote in the European parliament in Strasbourg on 12 June, 2013.

Preparation for Liquidated Damages Phase Begins.

Croatia has upgraded its borders since becoming the 28th Member State of the European Union on 1 July, 2013.

The government is launching a consultation on providing two new tax reliefs to encourage and support the creation and growth of employee-owned companies.

Britannia Bradshaw International Removals & Storage and BCL Office Moving are taking charity support and fundraising to a new level – by each painting a removals truck shocking pink in support of their new charity partner, Genesis Breast Cancer Prevention.

The Freight Transport Association and Road Haulage Association have welcomed the Driving Standards Agency’s consultation on the possibility of exempting technicians taking vehicles to test from the scope of the Driver CPC.

Move-it Channelmoving has recently launched a new website giving customers for the French market the opportunity of receiving online quotations using a rather whizzy drag and drop feature.

Robinsons Relocation has become the first relocation company in the UK to be awarded the EuRA Global Quality Seal for DSP services.

Registration for The Movers and Storers Show 2013, 22-23 October, is now open at www.themoversandstorersshow.co.uk

To celebrate its 25 years in business insurance brokers Pound Gates has woven the 25-year theme in to a range of corporate social responsibility and fund raising activities. On the last Sunday in June a team of 75 staff, friends and families completed The Orwell Walk.

Department for Transport will increase fixed penalties for motoring offences from 16 August 2013. The increases were made following a public consultation in 2012 and included road safety groups and police services.

The high and sustained levels of parking fines on delivery vehicles in London are a sign of policy failure rather than successful enforcement, the Freight Transport Association (FTA) has told the House of Commons Transport Select Committee. The Committee was taking oral evidence on the impact and costs of local authority parking enforcement on business from witnesses including FTA’s Managing Director of Policy & Communications, James Hookham.

Harrow Green has developed a way of moving commercial freezers over long distances while keeping their contents inside temperature controlled. An innovative device converts the vehicle’s power supply enabling the freezer to function normally during its journey.

Both Halifax and the Nationwide reported significant increases in house prices for the year to the end of June with the Halifax recording its highest rate of increase since August 2010 at 3.7%.