• DVSA updates load security guidance

    Published On: Tuesday 10 December 2024

    The Driver & Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) has updated its guidance for goods vehicle operators in England, Wales and Scotland on how to ensure cargo is secured and unloaded safely. [...]

  • TotalEnergies launches heavy-duty lubricant range

    Published On: Monday 9 December 2024

    TotalEnergies Lubrifiants has launched the new Rubia EV3R range, a heavy-duty OEM-approved lubricants offering based on high quality regenerated oils. The move follows the launch of Quartz EV3R, its first [...]

  • Haulier cost pressures revealed in annual RHA survey

    Published On: Friday 6 December 2024

    The Road Haulage Association (RHA) has published the results of its Annual Cost Movement Survey, which outlines how increasing cost pressures are continuing to impact the haulage sector. The survey [...]

  • Allied Bakeries adds 36 Tiger rigids to fleet

    Published On: Monday 2 December 2024

    The fleet run by Allied Bakeries, the national company whose brands include Kingsmill and Allinson’s bread, has welcomed its first vehicles procured from Tiger Trailers, in the form of 36 [...]

  • Heidi Alexander appointed to head DfT

    Published On: Monday 2 December 2024

    Swindon South MP Heidi Alexander has been appointed as secretary of state at the Department for Transport (DfT), following the resignation last week of predecessor Louise Haigh. Ms Alexander, who [...]

  • HaulTech boosts efficiency for S R Harradine

    Published On: Monday 2 December 2024

    Switching from pen and paper planning to a transport management system from HaulTech is reportedly bringing significant benefits to family-run haulage firm S R Harradine. Based on the outskirts of [...]

  • RHA: invest in roads to support tourism ambitions

    Published On: Friday 29 November 2024

    The Road Haulage Association (RHA) has said that roads and infrastructure projects must receive investment by the government in support of its ambitions to welcome 50 million international visitors each [...]

  • First Euro NCAP truck safety results published

    Published On: Friday 22 November 2024

    Vehicle rating specialist Euro NCAP has released the first set of results from its Truck Safe assessment programme, which has seen truck models from major European manufacturers gauged for their [...]

  • MPs’ report calls for freight crime action

    Published On: Friday 22 November 2024

    A new report has been published by a cross-party group of MPs, providing recommendations to the government on how it can clamp down on freight crime. The report from the [...]