Two very different UK operators have launched initiatives to address the driver shortage with in-house training. Container transport specialist Maritime Transport has teamed up with Scania and launched a year-long [...]

With the launch of its new Eurocargo medium-weight truck, Iveco has thrown down two challenges. One is to DAF, which dominates not only the UK truck market but more particularly [...]

Ford of Europe is heading a €3.5 million research project into the use of alternative fuels for road vehicles, concentrating on dimethyl ether (DME) and oxymethylene ether (OME1). Volvo Group [...]

Important questions regarding the recruitment and medical assessment of heavy vehicle drivers have been raised at the fatal accident inquiry (FAI) into last December’s Glasgow bin lorry incident, which adjourned [...]

Iveco has joined forces with pan-European logistics company SMET to trial an 18-metre articulated combination powered by liquid natural gas. The combination is 1.5 metres over the maximum length of [...]

The Driver & Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) is to focus its roadside enforcement efforts upon those operators that it believes to be serious lawbreakers, and work towards scrutiny of electronic [...]

DVSA has changed the way that it undertakes its approved tachograph centre and nominated technician checks. The routine visit check has been replaced with a biennial desk-based assessment for each [...]

DAF has added half a tonne of payload to its factory-bodied 12-tonne GVW LF truck, with the extensive use of aluminum chassis parts in place of steel. Dubbed the FTCC, [...]

While UK hauliers have been enjoying bulk diesel prices which have been as low as 89p/litre + VAT this year, oil industry experts have cautioned that the underlying reduction in [...]