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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 on social media and smartphones to make purchase decisions, and according to the CarGurus UK Buyer I ...

Do 20mph Speed Limits Work? Since 1935, up until most recently the UK's national speed limit has been 30mph for built-up areas, in Wales all urban roads have the default speed limit of 20mph and now several areas around the cou ...

Driving Offences and Punishments Even the most law-abiding citizens can find themselves in hot water for committing a driving offence. Lack of concentration out on the road can lead to big fines, penalty points, a loss of licence, o ...

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 a year, but the cash is already rolling in. Unless you’re brave enough to risk a fine, all owners ...

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 are three times more likely than their female counterparts to be involved in a road accident that k ...

Increase in Rogue MOT Testers Apparently, Sunday is the best day of the week to have your vehicle MOT with a reported pass rate of 82.5%, compared to Monday being the worst day with a pass rate of just 74.5%. Regardles ...

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 vehicles fail their MOT test on the first attempt because of faults with indicators and other electric ...

Can You Insure Alloy Wheels? Simple answer is you can get insurance for almost anything today. Alloy wheel insurance is no different, it will cover drivers in the event of any unexpected damage to one or more of their precious w ...

Queen Elizabeth II - Love of Land Rovers The passing of Queen Elizabeth II has left everybody deeply saddened, and our thoughts and condolences are with the Royal Family at this time.   As the UK’s longest reigning monarch, ...

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; more than 20,000 used vehicles were left totally abandoned and had to be removed and disposed of thr ...

Sleeping in Your Vehicle – The Rules Rules in the Highway Code suggest drivers should take a break after every 2 hours, this includes all private, business and motor trade drivers. If you’re feeling especially tired, the code also rec ...

Vehicle Rental Costs Skyrocket As many of us start travelling abroad again for the first time in a while, families will have noticed another significant increase in their costs, recent studies have revealed vehicle rental prices t ...

July New Vehicle Registrations Drop 9% According to the latest figures from the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT), new car registrations in the UK fell by 9.0% to reach 112,162 units in July 2022 to 112,162 units, the fift ...

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 always worry about happening to them, ok, maybe not drivers of electric vehicles. Most of us tend to pu ...

New 2022 UK Driving Laws - Recap In January 2022, we wrote an article about some of the UK’s proposed changes coming into effect that would impact both private, and motor trade industry drivers of new and used vehicles. Driving la ...

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 heartened to hear officialdom has been investigating the whole fuel-price saga. In June 2022, following ...

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 with sweaty summers, extended daylight hours, and all that annoying sunshine. These factors combined a ...

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 traffic police, or on speed cameras. In an effort to boost road safety and ensure widespread complianc ...

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 government published plans to set up the first official body with a remit to report on road safety. ...

Motorists Buy Their Own Petrol Pump The Motor Trade Industry fully understand how fuel prices have impacted on the average motorist. But hardly a motor dealer or filling station owner will have come across a motoring community that hav ...

Are You Fit To Drive? We tend to take mobility and ‘our own set of wheels’ for granted but, as a seasoned motorist, motor trade professional or insurance broker will confirm, it’s a privilege most of us will have to ...

UK Motorist Fined for Cycle Fly-By Motorists need to always be cautious when driving, not just by paying attention to other vehicles, but by taking in the road conditions and staying alert for pedestrians and cyclists. Nowadays, speed ...

How To Spot Motoring Scams At a time when money is already tight for most families, there has been an unprecedented rise in motoring scams. A recent estimate suggests that this cost British citizens close to 2.5 billion pounds ...

New UK Government Pothole Penalties New changes to the law will hopefully help prevent needless potholes from being caused nationwide. The UK government recently announced it will be bringing in new measures to penalise utility compani ...

Tailgaters As most motorists will already know only too well, the dictionary defines ‘tailgate’ as a verb meaning ‘to drive too closely behind another vehicle’. Tailgating is virtually guaran ...

EV Rapid Charging Prices Escalate Prices for rapid charging an electric vehicle (EVs) in the UK has risen sharply in line with increasing energy costs, although, EV charging is still cheaper than buying both petrol and diesel on fore ...

Record Breaking UK Fuel Prices If there’s one thing almost guaranteed to enrage UK drivers of new and used cars, it’s the soaring cost of petrol and diesel fuel, with prices now reaching £2.00 per litre, not to mention what m ...

VW Settles UK Dieselgate Scandal Seven years after the 'Dieselgate' scandal erupted worldwide, Volkswagen (VW) has finally settled claims to English and Welsh drivers totaling some £193 million. More than 91,000 owners of diesel ve ...

Trial Ban On Loud Engines And Exhausts The Department for Transport (DfT) has announced new funding and measures to try and clamp down on illegally modified car and van exhausts. These are often loud and can be very disturbing both for ot ...

Motorists Red Light Road Rage According to a recent motor trade industry survey, traffic lights can be a potential ‘hot spot’ for winding up drivers to the point where they are melting with road rage. It seems 46% of the 2,49 ...

What Is A Showroom Tax? Whether it’s just ‘window shopping’ to sample the latest deals, or something more planned and purposeful, spring is usually the peak season for drivers visiting motor trade forecourts. For some ...

Holiday Drivers Remarkably, a new study by the RAC and vehicle insurer Ageas, shows that around 30% of UK motorists will avoid country lanes and smaller roads when travelling on holiday. Drivers would rather add con ...

New And Used Car Prices In 2022 New and used cars have seen gradual price increases from the onset of the pandemic. Initially, the rise in prices of used cars was due to supply constraints during the global semi-conductor crisis, b ...

Guidance On Yellow Box Junctions Drivers will be aware that, especially in UK cities, it is increasingly common to find cameras ‘policing’ moving traffic. As a result, drivers will sometimes only learn about their motoring misde ...

Parking Under Street Light Increases Vehicle Theft Finding the best parking spots can be challenging but parking your vehicle under a streetlight is a costly oversight. You would think that shining a spotlight on your vehicle keeps it safe, unfortuna ...

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"; this can set some back up to £1,000 per year, though this figure varies widely by type and age of v ...

Traffic Wardens - What You Need to Know With soaring fuel costs, road tax, and increasing insurance policy premiums for private and motor trader drivers, it’s hardly surprising many motorists of new and used cars show little patience whe ...

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 cars have risen considerably with the used car market especially buoyant for sellers. Pr ...

UK Pavement Parking Rules The motor trade industry like many others is usually faced with parking problems, especially in large cities with minimal parking facilities or residential areas with narrow roads. Pavement parking p ...

The Cost of Parking at Work According to a newspaper report, another so-called “green” levy pulled from the hat by a dozen or so UK city councils is likely to have working motorists turning purple with rage. In a nutshell, ...

Motor Insurance Pricing Changes The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) brought in new regulations in January 2022 to end the practice known as "price-walking". Many loyal customers faced increasing insurance policy premiums each yea ...

UK Clean Air Zone Guide As motorists in Oxford have been the latest to discover, many more of the UK’s overburdened city drivers are scheduled to be hounded by two more acronyms: ULEZ and CAZ. So what do they mean and sta ...

What Power Do England Highways Traffic Officers Have? Somewhat disrespectfully known as ‘Wombles’ in some quarters, Highways England Traffic Officers (HETOs) have a strong visual presence on our motorways. But most motorists would probably be hard p ...

Crack Down on Private Parking Operators The latest major crackdown on rogue private companies is soon set to benefit millions of UK drivers, motorists will now start enjoying fairer, clearer appeals and reduced fines thanks to a new system ...

Where You Park Impacts Motor Insurance Costs The recent rises in the cost of living are affecting everyone. Despite some changes in the way that motor insurance premiums are calculated, there is one part of the policy that can often be overlook ...

2022 Car Of The Year Finalists The recent announcement of European Car of the Year Award finalists has seen electric vehicles (EVs) dominate the list, contrasting the 2021 finalists which had only two EVs. The annual aw ...

New UK Driving Laws 2022 For all private and motor trade industry professionals and drivers, in this article; we take a closer look at a few of the new driving laws that come in place during 2022. The Highway Code changes ar ...

The World's Bizarre Driving Laws UK drivers including motor trade professionals will be very familiar with our many motoring laws and rules as well as the smaller details of their private or motor trade insurance policy requirements ...

New Website To Assist UK Motor Traders Ben, otherwise known as the Motor and Allied Trades Benevolent Fund, is a motor trade industry charity that has worked alongside the automotive sector for well over 100 years. During all that time, a ...

Home Charging a Company Vehicle Despite financial incentives, electric vehicles (EVs) are still more likely to be owned by business users and those who are more affluent. Nevertheless, more and more all-electric and hybrid cars can ...

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