The Freight Transport Association (FTA) has responded positively to an announcement by the Department for Transport (DfT) and Office for Low Emission Vehicles (OLEV) of £4 million of funding to [...]

The House of Commons home affairs select committee has criticised French and British authorities over their handling of the issues caused, including for haulage operators, by illegal migrants trying to [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]