Legislation

Mobile phones

It is illegal to use a hand-held mobile phone while driving. Ensuring all staff, including senior managers and line managers, understand the law and their responsibilities is essential.

Legislation 26 Feb

The Highway Code is one of the most widely recognised books in the country. It lists everything that we must and must not do when driving a car. It also lists best practice in driving behaviour in areas where the government has decided not to legislate.

Legislation 26 Feb

Dangerous goods

If your vehicles carry dangerous items you need to register with the Environment Agency. For this purpose, dangerous items include: toxic gases; butane gas; propane gas; explosives; fireworks; other flammable items; strong acids; and radioactive materials.

Legislation 26 Feb

Drink drive limits

Make sure your drivers stay legal - guidance to the drink drive limits

Legislation 26 Feb

Driver Licence Check Guide

The requirements for all fleets are essentially similar, regardless of fleet size or business sector, in the UK, the legal minimum requirement is for the driver of a vehicle to hold a full and valid driving licence for that vehicle category.

Legislation 24 Feb

Commercial Vehicle Tax Rules

Light commercial vehicles, including double-cab pick-up trucks with payloads in excess of 1000kg, are classed as a benefit in kind if they are also provided for private use. Unlike cars, tax on use of commercial vehicles provided by an employer is levied at a flat rate.

Legislation 24 Feb

BiK Tax on Free Fuel

Provision of free fuel for private mileage has faced repeated attempts to curtail it during the last 10 years with a very small percentage of employees being offered the perk.

Legislation 24 Feb

Company Car Tax: National Insurance contributions

Companies are liable to pay Class 1A National Insurance contributions where staff are provided with vehicles on which they are taxed for private use.

Legislation 24 Feb

Company Car Tax - How Capital Allowance rules reward low CO2 cars

The rules surrounding capital allowances for company car tax incentives worth hundreds of thousands of pounds for companies running low emission cars.

Legislation 24 Feb

Health & Safety Legislation Table

There are several key pieces of health and safety legislation the fleet managers and their drivers should be aware of.

Legislation 23 Feb

Fleet legislation - drink driving

Over 9,000 road crashes in 2007 involved a driver who was over the legal limit for alcohol. As a result, 2,170 people were killed or seriously injured.

Legislation 23 Feb

Duty of care: Eye tests

There is no legal imperative for industry to make sure drivers comply with minimum sight requirements. But this is about to change, as the EU is considering introducing uniform standards of vision for employees that drive during the course of their work.

Legislation 23 Feb

Fleet legislation - mobile phone use while driving

From February 2007 motorists have faced tougher penalties for breaking the law by using a hand-held mobile phone while driving. The fixed penalty includes three penalty points as well as a £60 fine.

Legislation 23 Feb

Fleet legislation - a guide to speed limits

Brake the road safety charity has produced a guide to the country's speed limits.

Legislation 23 Feb

Fleet legislation - smoke-free vehicles

The Government has produced an official guide to the smokefree law.

Legislation 23 Feb

Grey Fleet Policy - Own Vehicle Policy

HSE Guidelines, 'Driving at Work' state that "health and safety law applies to on-the-road work activities as to all work activities and the risks should be effectively managed within a health and safety system".

Legislation 22 Feb

Foreign Driving Licences

This document provides a general guide to the main principles governing driving in the UK for those without a UK-issued driving licence.

Legislation 22 Feb

Advisory Fuel Rates

New Advisory Fuel Rates were published by HM Revenue and Customs in late November 2009. They came into force on December 1.

Legislation 22 Feb

The Road Safety Act 2006

This extensive legislation makes provision about road traffic, registration plates, vehicle and driver information, hackney carriages and private hire vehicles, and trunk road picnic areas.

Legislation 22 Feb

The Workplace (Health,Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992

The Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations cover specific areas of health, safety and welfare to supplement the general duties on employers under the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974. The aim of this legislation was to provide a consistent set of minimum workplace standards.

Legislation 22 Feb

Legislation

Mobile phones

The Highway Code

Dangerous goods

Drink drive limits

Driver Licence Check Guide

Commercial Vehicle Tax Rules

BiK Tax on Free Fuel

Company Car Tax: National Insurance contributions

Company Car Tax - How Capital Allowance rules reward low CO2 cars

Health & Safety Legislation Table

Fleet legislation - drink driving

Duty of care: Eye tests

Fleet legislation - mobile phone use while driving

Fleet legislation - a guide to speed limits

Fleet legislation - smoke-free vehicles

Grey Fleet Policy - Own Vehicle Policy

Foreign Driving Licences

Advisory Fuel Rates

The Road Safety Act 2006

The Workplace (Health,Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992

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Legislation

Mobile phones

The Highway Code

Dangerous goods

Drink drive limits

Driver Licence Check Guide

Commercial Vehicle Tax Rules

BiK Tax on Free Fuel

Company Car Tax: National Insurance contributions

Company Car Tax - How Capital Allowance rules reward low CO2 cars

Health & Safety Legislation Table

Fleet legislation - drink driving

Duty of care: Eye tests

Fleet legislation - mobile phone use while driving

Fleet legislation - a guide to speed limits

Fleet legislation - smoke-free vehicles

Grey Fleet Policy - Own Vehicle Policy

Foreign Driving Licences

Advisory Fuel Rates

The Road Safety Act 2006

The Workplace (Health,Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992

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