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Apr 11, 2013

* UK - LETHAL COLLISIONS

* UK - Suffolk Police targeting unlit LGVs after series of 

Suffolk,EN,UK -Commercial Motor, by Chris Tindall -11 April 2013: -- Suffolk police said they will target unlit LGVs (Light commercial vehicles = Light Goods Vehicles) parked overnight in lay-bys after a series of lethal collisions along the A14... Hauliers will be contacted and encouraged to use designated lorry parks, and if lay-bys are used at night by LGVs then by law they must remain lit... Chrys Rampley, crime and infrastructure manager at the Road Haulage Association, said that if sub-standard lay-bys were upgraded then LGVs wouldn’t have to remain lit all night... The Highways Agency was unable to respond...


* UK - Number of people taking and passing LGV driving tests finally on the rise 

London,EN,UK -Commercial Motor, by Chris Druce -10 April 2013: -- The number of people taking an LGV test and passing increased last year, bringing a six-year period of decline to an end... A CM analysis of the latest available figures, covering the 2011/12 period, shows that, when combined, both tests taken and passed at category C and C+E have increased year-on-year... It means 44,173 people sat an LGV test in the year ending 31 March 2012, 6.6% ahead of the 41,441 in the 2010/11 period (CM 12 April 2012). The pass rate improved also, with an 8.4% uplift to 22,835 (2010/11: 21,054)... While an improvement, the latest combined totals are still lower than 2008/09, and significantly down on the 86,826 tests taken and 39,220 passed (C and C+E) in 2005/06, an issue highlighted last year by CM...

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