• FTA concern over journey time reliability

    Published On: Friday 22 May 2015

    The Freight Transport Association (FTA) has queried recently released figures from Highways England showing that journey time reliability has marginally improved over the last year, claiming that its members have [...]

  • RHA welcomes new late payment laws

    Published On: Thursday 21 May 2015

    The Road Haulage Association has welcomed government plans to implement a law in April 2016 which will oblige large businesses with more than 250 employees to publicise their payment practices [...]

  • DAF backs logistics skills initiative

    Published On: Wednesday 20 May 2015

    An industry-led initiative to encourage young people to consider logistics as a career has won ‘substantial’ financial backing for the next three years from DAF Trucks, Britain’s leading truck manufacturer. [...]

  • All change for VW truck firms as Scania boss leaves for Volvo

    Published On: Monday 18 May 2015

    Shortly after Volvo Group announced it had poached Scania’s CEO Martin Lundstedt to take up a similar position with the Gothenburg company, Scania’s owner, VW Group, announced the creation of [...]

  • Better loos for lorry drivers, demands petition

    Published On: Wednesday 13 May 2015

    The calls for the state of roadside toilet facilities for HGV drivers to be addressed have risen again in volume, with the launch of a petition by truck driver recruitment [...]

  • Senior TC Beverley Bell is new CILT president

    Published On: Tuesday 12 May 2015

    The senior traffic commissioner for Great Britain, Beverley Bell, used her inauguration lunch as president of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (CILT) to ask members to consider why [...]

  • Solving the driver shortage: FTA conference report

    Published On: Monday 4 May 2015

    Addressing the demographic imbalance in the truck-driving population is the key to easing the driver shortage, the FTA’s Summit, Solving the Driver Crisis, heard. Volvo Trucks UK & Ireland managing [...]

  • Brighter times are here, say UK truck bosses

    Published On: Sunday 3 May 2015

    Senior representatives of the heavy vehicle manufacturers attending the CV Show (and behind the razzmatazz there were some significant stay-aways) were generally confident about the future of the UK truck [...]

  • Industry welcomes foreign truck tax revenue figures

    Published On: Saturday 2 May 2015

    The Road Haulage Association has welcomed the government’s announcement that income from the HGV road user levy, designed to bill foreign truck operators for their use of the UK’s roads, [...]