The Department for Transport has announced that more truck operators will be given the opportunity to join the 10-year trial of longer semi-trailers. The scheme initially allowed operators to bid for a [...]

The Freight Transport Association has claimed that not enough funding support is being allocated to the heavy goods vehicle sector for the development of ultra low emission HGV fleets. A [...]

Large-scale UK shale gas production could create a double boom for Britain’s truck operators, by simultaneously increasing demand for transport services and reducing the cost of fuel.  A report by [...]

The Department for Transport (DfT) and the Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, are to establish what is being billed as a “new industrial HGV taskforce”, which they claim will “take [...]

With the periodic training deadline for bus and coach now passed, VOSA has clarified that it will not issue fines or penalties to those found breaching Driver CPC rules if they are to [...]

The government has called for fuel retailers in remote parts of the UK to provide details of how much they are charging for petrol and diesel, as it prepares to [...]

Plans to install average speed cameras along a 136-mile stretch of the A9 to Inverness have been slammed by the haulage industry, which points out that trucks travelling at their [...]

Isuzu Motors has appointed a managing director designate at its Isuzu Truck UK subsidiary in preparation for the departure of Nikki King, who is retiring at the end of October. [...]

Operators have been reminded by a deputy traffic commissioner that the condition of thirdparty trailers, including those travelling unaccompanied from mainland Europe pulled by British traction providers, is the responsibility [...]