• Exhibitors gear up for CV Show 2015

    Published On: Wednesday 25 February 2015

    Preparations are well underway for this year’s Commercial Vehicle Show, which takes place from 14-16 April at the NEC Birmingham – as show bosses have revealed that there will be [...]

  • Renewed calls for NI fuel laundering crackdown

    Published On: Tuesday 24 February 2015

    A committee of the British-Irish Parliamentary Assembly (BIPA) has expressed alarm at what it called “evidence of the widespread presence” of fuel laundering plants and illicit fuel sales around the [...]

  • TfL’s FORS scheme privatised for nationwide rollout

    Published On: Thursday 12 February 2015

    Transport for London (TfL) has handed its Fleet Operator Recognition Scheme (FORS) over to a consortium led by Aecom, and including the Chartered Institute of Logistics & Transport and Fleet [...]

  • Dongfeng cements Volvo Group joint venture

    Published On: Monday 9 February 2015

    Chinese manufacturer Dongfeng Motor Group has formalised its co-operation with Volvo Group, sealing the deal on a joint venture that will be owned 55/45 by the Chinese and Swedish companies [...]

  • DAF tweaks its heavy trucks for diesel savings

    Published On: Friday 6 February 2015

    UK market leader DAF has introduced a number of refinements to its Euro 6 XF and CF trucks and MX-11 and MX-13 engines, with the objective of achieving fuel savings [...]

  • New truck market showing signs of recovery

    Published On: Thursday 5 February 2015

    The UK heavy truck market showed its first signs of returning to normality in January after a difficult 2014 in which new vehicle registrations dropped by almost 30 per cent. [...]

  • More vehicles exempt from EU hours rules

    Published On: Wednesday 4 February 2015

    GB or domestic drivers’ hours rules apply to some 7.5-tonne and livestock transport vehicles, instead of EC drivers’ hours rules, from 2 March. The changes are the result of new [...]

  • Road user charge fines top £450,000

    Published On: Tuesday 3 February 2015

    Penalty charges totalling £450,000 have been issued since the HGV road user levy – which is designed to bill foreign operators for use of UK roads – was introduced last [...]

  • London’s HGV Taskforce reports enforcement success

    Published On: Wednesday 28 January 2015

    Transport for London (TfL) has announced that the capital’s Industrial HGV Task Force (IHTF) has issued more than 1,000 fixed penalty notices to unsafe and non-compliant HGVs since its operations [...]