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Department for Transport announces consultation on trailer registration


BIFA has been advised that as part of the UK’s preparations for exiting the EU, the government will ratify the 1968 Vienna Convention on Road Traffic. The Haulage Permits and Trailer Registration Bill will establish a framework that provides: • The powers that will support British hauliers to continue to operate internationally after the UK leaves the EU;


• The government with the necessary framework to introduce new administrative systems if needed after Brexit;


• Flexibility to deliver any negotiation outcome. The key elements of the Bill are: • Arrangements to enable a permit scheme if required post-Brexit to ensure that UK hauliers can obtain the necessary paperwork to provide services to and from EU countries;


• The establishment of a trailer registration scheme in line with the 1968 Vienna Convention. Further information on the proposed legislation can be


found at: www.gov.uk/government/publications/road- haulage-and-driving-in-the-eu-post-brexit It is important to emphasise that this scheme relates


only to UK trailers that will operate internationally, but BIFA would encourage Members likely to be affected


to respond to the consultation. The Association believes that this proposed


legislation will become more important if the existing switch to non-accompanied trailers accelerates in a post-Brexit environment.


Alternatively fuelled vehicle exemptions


Following a consultation launched in July 2017, the UK government has announced plans to seek a derogation to the weight limits applying to category B (car) driving licence holders. In an effort to promote the


take-up of alternatively fuelled vehicles in order to meet CO2 emission targets, the government


has approached the EU for agreement to allow category B licence holders to drive alternatively fuelled vehicles weighing up to 4.25 tonnes, an increase from 3.5 tonnes. This is to allow for the extra weight


of electric and hybrid vehicles created by the power unit, and only applies to vehicles of this type.


The government is also


proposing a similar exemption from operator licensing requirements for alternatively fuelled vans used for own account haulage. This would help operators to


avoid becoming subject to the full operator licensing regime if they invest in cleaner, but slightly heavier, vans.


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You can find details of new member applications listed on the BIFA website, www.bifa.org. Simply select the tab MEMBERSHIP and you will see a separate page titled MEMBERSHIP APPLICATIONS. The new member applications


are published 14 days prior to the appropriate regional consultant to BIFA visiting the applicant for the final audit and welcome visit. If you wish to bring any information


to our attention regarding any application, an e-mail should be sent to Robert Keen (r.keen@bifa.org). BIFA has a Membership Group that can evaluate any contentious applications. We also list on the website those companies that have ceased membership. If you sign up for the BIFA


e-newsletter, it will make checking who has applied for membership really easy. It is sent to subscribers every two weeks and there will be a prompt enabling a one-click link to the appropriate page on the BIFA website. You can register to receive the


BIFA e-newsletter by a simple sign- up process on the front page at www.bifa.org. You can tailor the type of news that we feed to you. If you have any questions


concerning the website our resident expert, Spencer Stevenson (s.stevenson@bifa.org), will be pleased to help you.


By sea – Hague Visby rules (2 SDR): £2.03 per kg £677.87 per package


By road – CMR (8.33 SDR): £8.47 per kg


By air –Montreal Convention (19 SDR): £19.32 per kg


May 2018


By air –Warsaw Convention (17 SDR): £17.29 per kg


BIFA STC: (2 SDR): £2.03per kg


(The SDR rate on 17 April 2018, according to the IMF website, was 1.0168)


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