Transport

Whether you are an operator of a large or small fleet we can advise you on all aspects of road transport legislation.

Our team of specialist solicitors are all accredited RHA panel members and can  help you with a wide range of issues, including:

• Public Inquiries and appeals to the Transport Tribunal
• Tachograph and drivers’ hours regulation
• Magistrates’ Court defence
• Construction & Use Regulations
• Registered Services operation and monitoring
• Traffic Regulation Conditions and Traffic Regulation Orders
• Bus Service Operators Grant
• Civil and criminal liabilities for storage and carriage of dangerous goods

We also provide specialist employment law advice to the transport industry. Some examples of recent work include:

• Acting for a company from a national bus group at a Public Inquiry where punctuality, reliability and failure to display destination blinds were in issue.  After submissions, the Traffic Commissioner decided that the company should not be fined under the Transport Act. 
• Advising a national bus group regarding cross boundary bus service registration.
• Advising a national bus group regarding flexible registrations and whether it was appropriate to claim Bus Service Operator’s Grant.  Also advising regarding rebate claims for concessionary fares. 
• Acting for a national waste company in an environmental Public Inquiry in relation to an ex-military site in an Area of Outstanding National Beauty; 
• Advising representative organizations and local businesses in relation to proposed Traffic Regulation Orders on the A368 Somerset and in the Cotswolds.
• Advising a bus company where the local authority threatened to remove them from a competitive tendering process. 
• Advising a major utilities company on the interpretation of drivers’ hours and tachograph exemptions.

Also, numerous Public Inquiries for bus companies and hauliers regarding maintenance issues, magistrates’ court hearings including in relation to drivers hours and tachographs, and appeals to the Transport Tribunal.