{"id":10801,"date":"2021-08-16T16:28:14","date_gmt":"2021-08-16T16:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/?p=10801"},"modified":"2021-09-07T18:38:43","modified_gmt":"2021-09-07T18:38:43","slug":"covid-19-testing-guidance-issued-for-hauliers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/covid-19-testing-guidance-issued-for-hauliers\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 testing guidance issued for hauliers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Department for Transport has issued new COVID-19 testing guidance for hauliers arriving in England and travelling from the UK.<\/p>\n<p>Hauliers must take a COVID-19 test if they are staying in the country for more than two days, plus a further test every three days after that if they are still in England, unless drivers are either:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>covered by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/guidance\/red-amber-and-green-list-rules-for-entering-england#green-list\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">green list rules<\/a><\/li>\n<li>covered by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/guidance\/get-a-coronavirus-covid-19-test-if-youre-an-hgv-or-van-driver#amber-list-rules-if-you-are-fully-uk-eu-or-swiss-vaccinated\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">amber list rules and have been fully vaccinated under the UK, EU or Swiss vaccination programmes<\/a> \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/guidance\/get-a-coronavirus-covid-19-test-if-youre-an-hgv-or-van-driver#france\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this does not apply if you have been in France in the 10 days before arrival in England<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The rules apply to drivers and crews of HGVs and drivers of vans and other light goods vehicles and applies to both UK-based and non-UK hauliers.<\/p>\n<p>Hauliers without proof of a negative COVID-19 test are being warned they could be fined up to \u00a32,000.<\/p>\n<p>Further information is available on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/guidance\/get-a-coronavirus-covid-19-test-if-youre-an-hgv-or-van-driver#where-test\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Government website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department for Transport has issued new COVID-19 testing guidance for hauliers arriving in England and travelling from the UK. Hauliers must take a COVID-19 test if they are staying in the country for more than two days, plus a further test every three days after that if they are still in England, unless drivers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":10802,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-driving-for-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10801\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}