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20 Million Getaways Before Christmas Largescale strikes by UK workers last month have led to experts warning of increased traffic on our ...

Do Dogs Prefer Riding In Electric Vehicles Compared To A Diesel? Dog lovers often travel with what many might refer to as our ‘best friends’, and more motorists ...

How Does The Cold Weather Affect Electric Vehicles? In this article we look at whether winter conditions impact an electric vehicles (EVs) efficiency. ...

Do Speed Cameras Have Tolerances? Most drivers believe all speed cameras flash if you go above a certain speed, many might be surpris ...

New London-Wide ULEZ - Ultra Low Emission Zone For a few months now there have been rumours of plans to expand the UK capital city Ultra Low Emiss ...

The New Highway Code Rules As Winter Hits It has been recently reported UK temperatures will start dropping sharply over the coming weeks, mo ...

Consumers Use Social Media And Smartphones To Research Car Purchases A new trend is emerging in the consumer purchase of new and used cars. Motorists increasingly rely ...

Do 20mph Speed Limits Work? Since 1935, up until most recently the UK's national speed limit has been 30mph for built-up areas, ...

Driving Offences and Punishments Even the most law-abiding citizens can find themselves in hot water for committing a driving offenc ...

ULEZ Cash Boost For Transport For London Of Almost £100m London’s newly expanded Ultra-Low Emission Zone (ULEZ) has been up and running for just short of ...

Male Drivers Are More Likely To Be In A Road Collision With Pedestrians Following a new report from The Guardian, it has been discovered that male drivers in Great Britain ...

Increase in Rogue MOT Testers Apparently, Sunday is the best day of the week to have your vehicle MOT with a reported pass rate o ...

Is the MOT changing to Every Two Years a Good Idea? Millions of vehicles in the United Kingdom undergo an MOT annually, nearly a third of those used ve ...

Can You Insure Alloy Wheels? Simple answer is you can get insurance for almost anything today. Alloy wheel insurance is no diffe ...

Queen Elizabeth II - Love of Land Rovers The passing of Queen Elizabeth II has left everybody deeply saddened, and our thoughts and condolen ...

Over 20,000 UK Vehicles Left Abandoned In 2021 The motor trade industry will be interested to learn from recent council figures recorded in 2021; ...

Sleeping in Your Vehicle – The Rules Rules in the Highway Code suggest drivers should take a break after every 2 hours, this includes al ...

Vehicle Rental Costs Skyrocket As many of us start travelling abroad again for the first time in a while, families will have notic ...

July New Vehicle Registrations Drop 9% According to the latest figures from the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT), new car ...

What To Do If You Put The Wrong Fuel In Your Vehicle Putting the wrong fuel in a car, whether it's petrol or diesel is something many motorists will alw ...

New 2022 UK Driving Laws - Recap In January 2022, we wrote an article about some of the UK’s proposed changes coming into effect t ...

Competition And Markets Authority Increase Spotlight On UK Fuel Prices Motorists currently struggling to afford the cost of putting fuel into new and used cars may be hea ...

Guide To Extreme Heat and Summer Driving Extreme heat and sunshine are a fact of life for much of the UK, but it's not just about dealing wi ...

Speed Limiters Now Added to New Vehicles Home Office figures for 2021 reveal more than 6,000 drivers a day were caught speeding by either tr ...

UK Government Launches Road Safety Investigation Team Everyone in the motor trade industry will be interested to read that back in June 2022, the UK gove ...

Motorists Buy Their Own Petrol Pump The Motor Trade Industry fully understand how fuel prices have impacted on the average motorist. Bu ...

Are You Fit To Drive? We tend to take mobility and ‘our own set of wheels’ for granted but, as a seasoned motorist, m ...

UK Motorist Fined for Cycle Fly-By Motorists need to always be cautious when driving, not just by paying attention to other vehicles, ...

How To Spot Motoring Scams At a time when money is already tight for most families, there has been an unprecedented rise in mo ...

New UK Government Pothole Penalties New changes to the law will hopefully help prevent needless potholes from being caused nationwide. ...

Tailgaters As most motorists will already know only too well, the dictionary defines ‘tailgate’ as a verb ...

EV Rapid Charging Prices Escalate Prices for rapid charging an electric vehicle (EVs) in the UK has risen sharply in line with increa ...

Record Breaking UK Fuel Prices If there’s one thing almost guaranteed to enrage UK drivers of new and used cars, it’s the soar ...

VW Settles UK Dieselgate Scandal Seven years after the 'Dieselgate' scandal erupted worldwide, Volkswagen (VW) has finally settled c ...

Trial Ban On Loud Engines And Exhausts The Department for Transport (DfT) has announced new funding and measures to try and clamp down on ...

Motorists Red Light Road Rage According to a recent motor trade industry survey, traffic lights can be a potential ‘hot spot’ ...

What Is A Showroom Tax? Whether it’s just ‘window shopping’ to sample the latest deals, or something more planned and ...

Holiday Drivers Remarkably, a new study by the RAC and vehicle insurer Ageas, shows that around 30% of UK motorists ...

New And Used Car Prices In 2022 New and used cars have seen gradual price increases from the onset of the pandemic. Initially, the ...

Guidance On Yellow Box Junctions Drivers will be aware that, especially in UK cities, it is increasingly common to find cameras ‘p ...

Parking Under Street Light Increases Vehicle Theft Finding the best parking spots can be challenging but parking your vehicle under a streetlight is a ...

UK Car and Van 2022 Tax Bands One of the main costs for motorists can be Vehicle Excise Duty (VED) otherwise known as "car tax"; ...

Traffic Wardens - What You Need to Know With soaring fuel costs, road tax, and increasing insurance policy premiums for private and motor t ...

High Fuel Costs Spike EV Interest Motorists have had a tough time over the past couple of years. Since 2020, prices for new and used ...

UK Pavement Parking Rules The motor trade industry like many others is usually faced with parking problems, especially in lar ...

The Cost of Parking at Work According to a newspaper report, another so-called “green” levy pulled from the hat by a dozen ...

Motor Insurance Pricing Changes The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) brought in new regulations in January 2022 to end the practic ...

UK Clean Air Zone Guide As motorists in Oxford have been the latest to discover, many more of the UK’s overburdened city ...

What Power Do England Highways Traffic Officers Have? Somewhat disrespectfully known as ‘Wombles’ in some quarters, Highways England Traffic Officers ...

Crack Down on Private Parking Operators The latest major crackdown on rogue private companies is soon set to benefit millions of UK drivers ...