Road transport regulatory

Providing advice and legal support in all areas of road transport regulation for the passenger transport and logistics markets

Road transport regulations present a complex and ever changing set of rules designed to protect operators, drivers, passengers and other road users. Their scope encompasses everything from vehicle maintenance and safety standards, to drivers hours, axle load levels and dangerous driving. What’s more, their application involves a similarly broad spectrum of bodies, including public inquiries, tribunals and criminal courts.

Weightmans’ Road Transport Regulatory Team can provide expert advice and representation for all sizes of operator, from small owner-operated fleets to multinational logistics organisations, including bus and coach operators and road hauliers.

We can offer experienced, expert representation for clients at public inquiries before the Traffic Commissioner and the Transport Appeals Tribunal and assist with Health and Safety Executive investigations, as well as defending prosecutions for all levels of tachograph, driving and maintenance offences, right through to serious criminal charges such as causing death by dangerous driving.

As a Solicitor Advocate, our expert advisor, Andrew Sanderson, can represent companies at all levels of hearings. His experience includes the Courts of Appeal, The House of Lords and the European Courts of Justice.

Perhaps more importantly, Andrew’s knowledge and expertise helps our clients to avoid such prosecutions by keeping abreast of all the regulatory changes and how they impact on day to day operations.  With regular training and updates on issues such as Working Time and Drivers Hours, Health and Safety and much more, clients can stay right up to date and stay on the right side of the law.

Andrew is considered such an authority in this field, that he is a regular contributor to Commercial Magazine, Route One, CDC News and other leading publications, as well as the author of The CDC Coach Driver’s Handbook. He is a member of the Honorable Society of Grays Inn and Solicitors Association of Higher Court Advocates, a member of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (UK) and The Association of Road Transport Lawyers.

For further information contact Andrew Sanderson on 0207 822 1979 or email andrew.sanderson@weightmans.com