Transport trade groups have responded positively to a number of key fiscal policies affecting the sector that were outlined by the chancellor Jeremy Hunt in yesterday’s autumn statement, while calling […]

The global shortage of truck drivers is set to double by 2028, according to a new report by the international union for road transport, IRU. The report found that over […]

Funding redirected following the cancellation of the HS2 rail project’s northern leg will be ploughed into resurfacing more than 5,000 miles of road across England, the Department for Transport has […]

The Road Haulage Association (RHA) has announced that the deadline by which fleet operators that have been participating in the longer semi-trailer (LST) trial must switch to the new, post-trial […]

The Road Haulage Association (RHA) last month urged the gov­ernment to incentivise hauliers and coach operators to shift to low-carbon fuels like hydrotreated vegetable oil (HVO) through the in­troduction of […]

West of England traffic com­missioner (TC) Kevin Rooney has questioned the relevance of the current Certificate of Professional Competence syl­labus to the core of the trans­port manager’s role: ensuring safety […]

MAN Truck & Bus has opened sales for its first heavy-duty electric truck, in the form of the MAN eTGX for long-distance transport and the MAN eTGS for distribution. The […]

Driver aids and safety systems, many of which were already offered on the recently-an­nounced XB range of distribu­tion trucks are to be standardised on all models of DAF New Genera­tion […]

Some concise and wise words on compliance were provided by Chris Yarsley, senior policy manager at Logistics UK (pictured, right), at the organisation’s Transport Manager conference. He reported that pass […]