• Top tips for a more energy-efficient fleet

    Published On: Wednesday 25 October 2017

    Paul Miller, product manager at vehicle tracking specialist Fleetmatics, offers advice for operators on how best to drive fleet efficiency Last year, LCVs racked up 48.5 billion miles on Britain’s [...]

  • Iveco outlines alternative fuel offerings

    Published On: Tuesday 24 October 2017

    Iveco consultant Peter Symons mounted a spirited defence of diesel as a heavy-vehicle fuel before discussing alternatives at the FTA transport manager’s conference in Sparkford, Somerset. “Is diesel dead?” He [...]

  • Big fleets ‘in firing line’ on emissions control sabotage

    Published On: Tuesday 24 October 2017

    Operators caught knowingly running vehicles with damaged, missing or sabotaged emissions-control systems will face action against their O-licences, the DVSA has warned. Speaking at the FTA’s transport managers’ conference in [...]

  • Transdek to showcase urban double-deckers at Freight in the City

    Published On: Friday 20 October 2017

    Transdek UK says it will highlight the environmental and cost-saving benefits of its Duet urban double-deck trailers on stand V09 at the third annual Freight in the City Expo, Alexandra [...]

  • Making allowances

    Published On: Friday 20 October 2017

    Nigel Morris, tax director at MHA MacIntyre Hudson, offers advice to help HGV operators cope with recent overnight allowance changes Under a 26-year-long agreement between the Road Haulage Association (RHA) [...]

  • Tougher fines on the way for drivers’ hours breaches

    Published On: Friday 20 October 2017

    The Driver & Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) has vowed to ramp up its enforcement effort against truck, bus and coach drivers caught breaking drivers’ hours rules, thanks to wider-ranging fine-issuing [...]

  • TfL reveals first star ratings for Euro 6 trucks

    Published On: Tuesday 17 October 2017

    Transport for London (TfL) has published the first of the ‘star ratings’ for its HGV Direct Vision Standard (DVS), which it will use to decide which trucks will be allowed [...]

  • Driver shortage ‘likely to worsen’

    Published On: Monday 16 October 2017

    The transport industry is failing to retain the relatively small number of young people that it recruits to truck-driving, the Freight Transport Association (FTA) has admitted. Addressing the FTA’s transport [...]

  • Trade bodies slam EU worker plans

    Published On: Thursday 5 October 2017

    The Freight Transport Association (FTA) has critcised proposals set out in a document leaked from the Home Office last month, suggesting that free movement of labour would end immediately after [...]