The roads minister Lilian Greenwood has said the UK logistics sector is at the heart of the government’s plan for change, and an “unstoppable force for economic growth”, as part [...]

Employers that do not provide adequate training to staff who drive for work could face prosecution, a new national road safety campaign has warned. The Driving Down Inequality campaign, led [...]

The National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC) has released new guidance, developed in collaboration with the road transport sector, to help individual police forces across the UK deal appropriately with the [...]

The European Commission has proposed a package of road safety reforms that would apply across the European Union if adopted. These would include mandatory load security checks whenever freight vehicles [...]

Transport trade associations have offered a qualified welcome to this month’s announcement of a new agreement between the UK and the European Union, including on sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) checks [...]

Investment in road infrastructure will be critical to the government’s aim to build 1.5 million new homes over the next five years, according to the Road Haulage Association (RHA). The [...]

Mercedes-Benz Trucks has announced that it will expand its portfolio of battery electric trucks with further variants based on its flagship long-haul eActros 600. New models will be available to [...]

The ZENFreight consortium, part of the UK government’s Zero Emission HGV and Infrastructure Demonstrator (ZEHID) programme, has expanded its ranks with the addition of John G Russell (Transport) Ltd, which [...]

Restrictions on the number of days British commercial driv­ers can spend within Europe’s Schengen Area are now threat­ening the future of the UK’s international haulage industry, industry representatives have warned. [...]