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This best-seller for busy fleet operators, now in its 42nd edition, is the definitive guide for anyone in the road transport industry.
 
Clearly structured for quick and easy access, the book is packed with essential information on transport legislation, technical standards and goods vehicle operations. The Transport Manager’s and Operator’s Handbook is a truly comprehensive guide to the legal, operational and environmental factors that are of the utmost importance in today’s road transport industry. It presents the legal requirements in a coherent and easily digestible format, as well as offering operational advice on many of the problems faced by the industry.
 
This new edition includes a brand new chapter on intermodal transport, as well as the latest updates including changes to operator licensing fees, new rules on the driver CPC and different tachograph recording systems. This 40th edition includes the most current information on:

• issues relating to goods vehicle operator and driver licensing
• professional competence for transport managers
• working time and new driving hours rules
• ADR 2007 provisions
• drugs testing for drivers
• speed cameras and tougher speed penalties
• changes to the carriage of dangerous goods regulations
• tougher legal action for lack of adequate risk assessments
• increased haulage competition from EU enlargement
• maximum vehicle weights and dimensions in Europe
• new Special Types Order for abnormal and projecting loads
• the London “Low Emission Zone” (LEZ) for lorries
• entry to the international road haulage market
• the re-introduction of the Reduced Pollution Certificate
• the new OCR syllabus for the CPC examinations
• the introduction of LGV Driver CPCs

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RRP: £55.00 * 784 pages
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