Category: General Articles

The government has been focusing on many environmental issues recently, not least improving air quality across the country. One way in which it is proposing to make progress with this is to increase the road user levy for HGV drivers from February 2019.

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The increase in the levy is targeted at older vehicles and will most impact hauliers with an older fleet. The plans are to increase the rates by 20 per cent, with the older Euro 5 vehicles affected by the highest increases. At the other end of the rate rise, UK-registered Euro 6 trucks will see their rates reduced by 10 per cent.

The two schools of thought see this either as a penalty for firms with an ageing fleet, which are already arguably cash-strapped, or as a reward for firms that take the incentive to upgrade their lorries.

The levy

The levy is not a … Read more

The cost savings and flexibility of VoIP mean that it is an increasingly popular option for businesses. One of the things that worries firms intending to make the switch, however, is what happens to their existing phone numbers.

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With the old ISDN network due to be switched off in a few years, this is a problem more and more companies are facing, but fortunately there is a solution.

Understanding Numbers

In the UK phone numbers are issued by the regulator, Ofcom. These are given to service providers in batches, and individual numbers or blocks are then allocated to customers. At the moment there are around 600 companies in the UK that hold batches of phone numbers.

When you switch to a wholesale voice termination provider, your number needs to move from the original issuer to the new provider. The way this usually works is that calls are still … Read more

The ability to utilize a certain system which enables the flow of human waste has never been more convenient for our society and within our culture as well. The craziest thing about these products is that people hardly give any notice to what is happening to their sewage once it gets flushed down the drain. In this specific article we are going to be discussing a few things about septic tanks and how they impact the environment and how they work. The energy usage of these things will be brought up as well to more fully explain this interesting subject. 

What are these things exactly? Well according to Wikipedia this tank is a giant container that holds and carries large quantities of human feces in order to prevent unneeded disease in our environment. It is made from fabrications such as fiberglass, concrete, or plastic and while the sewage is sitting … Read more