Road Transport Law
JMW’s commercial road transport team has extensive experience advising and representing operators of all sizes across the haulage, coach and bus sectors nationwide. Their clients range from family-owned SMEs to some of the UK’s major bus and coach companies as well as well-known ‘household name’ haulage companies across sectors including retail, parcel delivery, waste, pharmaceutical and medical, animal feed, construction, scaffolding, fuel and agriculture.
Commercial road transport is the lifeblood of the UK economy. However, the logistics and passenger transport sectors are heavily regulated to protect road safety and ensure a level playing field. Poor compliance can attract the attention of enforcement agencies, resulting in prosecutions and/or a hearing before the Traffic Commissioner with the risk of action being taken against the Operator’s Licence, the directors, the transport manager and the driver.
JMW’s experts are recognised as leading lawyers on the full spectrum of matters relating to the licensing and regulation of commercial road transport. They are intimately familiar with the rafts of legislation and guidance and draw on decades of first-hand experience to provide strategic advice that recognises the practical and operational challenges operators face - enabling operators to successfully navigate the law while allowing them to concentrate on the day-to-day task of managing their businesses. JMW’s commercial road transport team also works closely with many of the trade associations supporting the road transport sector and their members.
The team is co-headed by Laura Hadzik and Scott Bell who have over 30 years of combined experience in this niche specialism. They are both recognised as leaders in their field and have developed enviable reputations for their unrivalled expertise in this niche area and their sector-specific knowledge.
If you are a transport firm and have any legal issues, our road transport solicitors can help. Call us on 0345 872 6666, or complete our online enquiry form and we will give you a call back at a convenient time.
How JMW Can Help
Whether the operation of vehicles is your core business activity, or an ancillary element of it, obtaining and retaining your Operator’s Licence is essential.
Our areas of expertise include:
- Operator's licence applications, requirements and variations
- Managing your operator's licence
- Buying or selling a road transport business
- Strategic Operator's Licence advice in connection with business restructures, acquisitions, mergers or insolvency proceedings
- DVSA roadside stops and investigations
- Traffic Commissioner Public Inquiries and Preliminary Hearings in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland
- Appeals against Traffic Commissioner decisions to the Upper Tribunal
- Vocational driver conduct and driver conduct hearings
- Vehicle maintenance
- Driver's hours rules
- Tachographs
- Bridge strikes
- Overloading and load security
- Bus reliability and punctuality
- Bus Open Data Service (BODS)
- The journey to net zero
- International road transport
- Police investigations and proceedings
- Environment Agency investigations and proceedings
- Health and Safety Executive (HSE) investigations and proceedings
- Trading Standards investigations and proceedings
- Road-transport-specific training for statutory directors, senior management and transport management
- Auditing
- Cabotage
- Clandestine entrants
- International van licensing
- Red diesel use
- Director's obligations
- MOT certificates
Talk to Us
Speak to the road transport solicitors at JMW today to find out more about how we can help you and your business in a FREE initial consultation without obligation. Simply call us on 0345 872 6666, or complete our online enquiry form and a member of the team will give you a call back at a convenient time.
