Not-for-profit tyre safety organisation TyreSafe has said the recent court sentencing of an illegal tyre seller should serve as a warning to the rest of the tyre retail industry. On [...]
Industry welcomes news on foreign truck tax revenue
Published On: Sunday 5 April 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, [...]
Road expansions to play key role in ‘northern powerhouse’ plans
Published On: Saturday 4 April 2015
Improvements in the road network are to form a major plank of the government’s new transport strategy for the north of England – the so-called ‘northern powerhouse’ project. In a [...]
The Road Haulage Association (RHA) has announced the addition of Eddie Stobart to its membership list. The logistics and warehousing giant – among the UK’s best-known operators with a fleet [...]
The Road Haulage Association (RHA) has spoken out about what it called the ‘woefully poor’ state of the country’s motorway service areas (MSAs), and called for government support to improve [...]
The transport industry needs to find its own solution to the driver shortage, Freight Transport Association managing director of policy and communications James Hookham told 600 delegates at the FTA [...]
The budget package unveiled by the chancellor George Osborne on 18 March has been met with a mixed response by the road transport industry. Among the measures announced that will [...]
The Driver & Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) has issued a reminder to operators regarding the speed limit increases for HGVs over 7.5 tonnes travelling on single and dual carriageways in [...]
The Energy Technologies Institute (ETI) is searching for partners with whom to develop technology for heavy-duty vehicles that could alter tyre operating pressure to adapt to a range of surface [...]
