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In a new study, carried out by Kwik Fit, 56% of drivers said that they avoid using the open hard shoulder on smart motorways, and with some stretches of smart motorway earning more than £6m in under three years through fines and convictions, you’d have to say that...

It wouldn’t be a usual week without a Brexit headline in the news. Often the story has relevance on the motoring world, hence why PetrolPrices.com writes about the European Union divorce so often. The latest news, though nothing too dramatic, is yet another thing for...

The annual Which? Reliability survey has been released and the consumer watchdog is now calling for automotive makers to act as it found that some of the UK’s most popular cars have dangerous and costly manufacturing faults. With some of these faults, there’s also a...

A few years ago, one of the motoring rescue services were found to be upselling car batteries to supposedly vulnerable users that had broken down with a flat battery; except these broken-down vehicles were part of a sting, created by the BBC Watchdog...

A new app set to be released at the end of this month is promising to help remove illegally parked cars by giving consumers the power to easily send videos of illegally parked cars securely. eFine, an app that will release on the 30th September, was the brainchild of...

August saw the biggest change to the Blue Badge scheme since it began in 1970. As we reported a year ago, and as part of trying to bridge the equality gap between physical and mental conditions, the government has granted people with a ‘hidden disability’ the right to...

When I was younger, the big screen movies were full of sci-fi styled vehicles; of course we had James Bond in his tricked out DB5 or Lotus Esprit, there was Michael Knight with his Knight Industries Two Thousand (KITT), and of course the time-travelling DeLorean from...

When I was a mere slip of a lad, at just 17, I remember listening to a friend of my brother on the phone to his insurance company, and I was amazed at just how little he paid for insurance. His wisdom rang a bell – it’s all about age: “Your insurance will drop when...

January 1st 1973 saw changes within the UK, that nearly 50 years later still have ramifications; we became part of the European Economic Community. Strangely, a year after we voted ‘Leave’, the UK government were still signing up for schemes that tied us to Europe, in...

Bright Blue; “A deep intellectual gene pool for the Conservative Party’s future”. Emission Impossible, a ‘jaunty’ take on the classic TV programme, or later film series, in which the good guys wrestle the bad guys, before self-destructing. Clearly, in this case, the...

Just in time for the holiday season, comes research by a major motoring organisation that says, this year, four out of five airports in the United Kingdom have increased the fees for drivers dropping off and collecting passengers. Travellers and those...

Since the introduction of the new Ultra-Low Emission Zone on April 8th, Transport for London has raked in around £26m in levies and penalty charges. That’s approximately £198,473 each day. We shouldn’t forget that the figure is on top of the regular congestion charge...

Someone using a mobile phone behind the wheel is four more times more likely to crash yet statistics show mobile phone use being a factor in collisions has actually risen every year since 2017. MPs warn that the current regulations make it seem like hands-free driving...

Politics; “the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies” – Groucho Marx. Here at PetrolPrices, we try and stay clear of politics, but very occasionally we need to dare to tread that path,...

Speed limiters will be made compulsory fitted to all new vehicles in 2022 under proposals put forward by the European Union and this will be copied by the UK Government, as confirmed by the Department of Transport. The official purpose of the speed...