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The EU are about to do it to us again, impose a new law on us concerning eye tests. The impending legislation will require van drivers to have their eyes tested every 5 years and private motorists to be tested every 10-15 years. In the past there has been no law governing eye tests although most responsible employers offered them to their employees Read more »

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Have you seen a road sign recently meaning ‘no overtaking’? Did you know that’s what it meant? Apparently 23% of drivers don’t according to a recent survey carried out by Goodyear. Along with many other deficiencies the well known tyre manufacturer surveyed 5,000 motorists and found that there were many instances where drivers were Read more »

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Whilst I’ve reported on drug driving on several occasions it now seems that the Government is about to start taking more positive action against offenders. Transport minister Philip Hammond has given the green light to proposals to tackle the problem. One proposal is to introduce a new criminal offence that will be specific to drug driving. This will Read more »

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One of the smaller changes to the benefit in kind tax rules following the budget was the removal of the upper limit when applied to company run prestige cars. In the past there was a limit placed on the list price used when calculating personal benefit in kind tax of £80,000. This has now been removed so taking a Bentley Flying Spur as an example with Read more »

I’m actually in a state of shock – ish! Whilst thumbing through the advice pages of Autoexpress I noticed that someone had asked the question, should you blur out the car’s registration number when advertising your car online? Now this is something I’ve had an issue with for sometime. It seems quite obvious that you should blur out the number to me Read more »

Are you one of those nutters that likes to fill up your diesel car with petrol? If you are I’ve a gadget for you as the famed Graham Hill gadget of the week! There are still 150,000 motorists misfuelling their cars each year with repairs costing between £200 and £7,000. Most instances involve diesel cars being filled with petrol. As diesel filler nozzles are wider Read more »

Our gadget this week is a cloth. If you like your car to look spotless after you’ve washed it but can’t dry it fast enough with a chamois leather to avoid the water spots, help is at hand from Autoglym with their HiTech Microfibre Drying Cloth. Described as a 60cm large towel it soaks up water incredibly quickly, avoiding smears and water spots that are caused by water sitting on the car waiting to be dried off. And it only Read more »

As Europe attempts to run their cars on anything other than petrol or diesel including chip fat, wee and rapeseed oil, otherwise known as bio fuel, new evidence is emerging that it may not be as environmentally friendly as it was thought. Reuters put in a freedom of information request to the European Commission for information on bio fuel CO2 emissions and found that biofuels produced from rapeseed had an Read more »

A recent report in Fleet News has revealed that the EU is planning a new carbon tax on all motor fuel. This would add a further tax to VAT and fuel duty already charged. Thomas Carroll, the EU’s taxation directorate general, told a recent meeting of European accountants that the new commission could review the EU’s 2003 energy taxation directive as early as the New Year. The draft proposals insist that excise duties Read more »

I reported recently that the Committee for Climate Change had submitted a report suggesting that there should be wide scale introduction of road charging in order to reduce car usage and emissions. However, quite unexpectedly the Government has stated that it would ‘not be proceeding with a national road user charging scheme in the next Parliament’. Not that I’m complaining but its yet another instance of asking experts for their opinion then totally ignoring them. By Graham Hill