The assessed effects of this option indicate gains in productivity and safety over not having LSTs. require operators to apply to the traffic commissioner on an annual basis for approval to continue to operate a LST once the trailer is over 10 years old. Operators would be required, should the police, Driver and Vehicles Standards Agency ( DVSA) or Traffic Commissioners of Great Britain request such data, to provide the data in a required format to identify whether the 80% requirement is being achieved require operators to be able to accurately track the routes LSTs take by GPS, and have a system in place to collect and store this data for a 5-year period.require drivers to undertake approved LST CPC training before their DCPC is renewed in order to retain entitled to operate LSTs.require operators to operate LSTs on a defined network consisting of major roads (this includes all motorways and A roads) for a minimum of 80% of each journey an LST undertakes.On top of the lighter specific regulatory option, this option would: This consultation also seeks evidence about a heavier additional regulatory option. The assessed effects of this option, based on the retention of much of the trial’s superior productive and safety performance, including significant reductions in the vehicle kilometres travelled and the resulting overall environmental benefits. operators will be required to undertake an appropriate level of compliance monitoring to ensure LSTs are being operated on the routes set and to take appropriate action where deviations are identified.the requirement for operators to undertake and retain a risk assessment of the proposed route an LST will follow and to have regard to and record feedback received from drivers on the appropriateness of routes.underpinning specific identification of LSTs in operator licensing.specific driver training, lasting a minimum of half a day, which could be provided by the operator, but which could also be done via periodic training for driver certificates of professional competence ( DCPC).the requirement to report incidents involving an LST where a person is killed or injured whether this occurs on a public road or private land and incidents involving LSTs only on public roads where damage is caused.The department’s preferred option is the lighter additional regulatory option, which on top of regulations applicable to standard heavy goods vehicles, proposes: Projections suggest that in a decade’s time about 16,000 LSTs could be operating - approximately 8 to 10% of the UK’s domestic semi-trailer fleet. The consultation also seeks views on the assessment that allowing LSTs to operate outside trial conditions would lead to a substantial growth in their use. This regulation would be targeted towards requiring or encouraging practices such as route planning, data collection, incident reporting and driver training, to maintain higher productivity and safety performance. The consultation seeks evidence on the merits of 2 alternative packages of specific regulation for LSTs (on top of the normal rules that apply to heavy goods vehicles). An important issue in considering the more general use of LSTs is how to ensure the safety performance remains as good as or better than standard trailers. Mainly qualitative information suggests that practices in the trial such as specific driver training, operator practices (including route selection, route assessment, driver selection and driver familiarity) contribute to the better safety performance of LSTs per kilometre. on a per kilometre basis LSTs have been involved in about 53% fewer personal injury collisions and casualties than the GB articulated heavy goods vehicle ( HGV) average.48,000 tonnes of CO 2(e) and 241 tonnes of NOx have been saved.
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