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Irish Professional Driver’s Skill and ECO Driving Championships Awards Ceremony 2022

Irish Professional Driver’s Skill and ECO Driving Championships Awards Ceremony 2022

It was held at the Wynns Hotel in Dublin (6th August). All Professional Driver’s competed in the Irish Professional Driver’s Skill and ECO Driving Championship 2022 were first-time competitors.

Well done to all Professional Drivers who competed in the event, and thank you to the EPDA Irish Professional Drivers Championship Organizing Comment for their hard work to make this event happen.

Thank you to all our sponsors. It goes without saying that without you, it would not have been possible to do to hold the Irish Professional Driver’s Skill and ECO Driving Championship.

 

The Results

Picture Gallery ECO 

Picture Gallery Skill

Awards Ceremony

Owner Driver fined almost €2,000 for washing HGV during weekend rest

An Owner Driver has been left almost €2,000 out of pocket after police officers in Norway determined his weekend visits to a truck wash were a violation of drivers’ hour rules.

Electronic Parking Brake (EPB) becomes mandatory in Europe

Electronic Parking Brake (EPB) becomes mandatory in Europe

By 2024, the automatic hand or parking brake on commercial vehicles will be mandatory in Europe. This should greatly reduce the number of accidents with rolling vehicles.

Changes at the EU border crossing for the professional drivers’ from February 2nd 2022

Changes for the professional drivers’ from February 2nd 2022, the border crossings must be documented on the tachograph.

After crossing the border, the driver must enter the symbol or the country name at the next possible stop at or after the border and not, as was previously the case, manually enter it in the tachograph at the delivery location.

Volvo Trucks – New unique safety feature for Volvo’s electric trucks

Volvo Trucks launches a new, patented safety feature for electric trucks – Active Grip Control. The new technology significantly improves stability, acceleration and braking in slippery conditions.

There is No Driver Shortage

There is No Shortage of Professional HGV Drivers.

There is an absence of a professional road transport culture and a lack of understanding of what the role of today’s HGV driver is. There is a miss understanding that Haulage Associations represent the interests of professional drivers, their primary focus is on representing the interests of business operators. There is a misunderstanding that Government Road safety Enforcement Agencies only exist to impede business and to collect taxes.

Life on the road with people smugglers, fuel thieves and few toilets


LONDON, Sept 27 (Reuters) – For Tom Reddy, it was the disgusting conditions that convinced him to quit as a British trucker, with few toilets and even fewer showers forcing drivers into desperate solutions at the side of the road.

 

Austro bus drivers pay a fine of € 23,000 and lost of DCPC in Croatia

The Croatian Ministry of Sea, Transport and Infrastructure has imposed a fine of 172,400 HRK – around € 23,000 – for the VSI infringements, and a two-year ban to acquire a new required professional driver qualification for Truck and Bus

Dash cams complement – but don’t replace – the human element

Dashcams don’t lie. But dash cams also don’t tell the whole truth.

Eyesight is better than a dashcam, however, eyesight isn’t always translated properly to memory.

Fleet policies, tech needed to fight smartphone ‘addiction’

If you’re behind the wheel and reading this article on your smartphone, put it down. The news can wait.

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