• Buffaload to produce own gas for expanded truck fleet

    Published On: Friday 17 January 2025

    Three-hundred truck strong oper­ator Buffaload intends to become self-sufficient in fuel by producing its own bio-LNG (liquefied natural gas) from an in-house methane digester. The Huntingdon operator announced the plans [...]

  • Amazon places mammoth Merc electric truck order

    Published On: Friday 17 January 2025

    Online retail giant Amazon has or­dered over 200 battery-electric trucks: choosing the Mercedes- Benz eActros 600. This is the larg­est order for electric trucks in the history of both Mercedes-Benz [...]

  • Dennis Eagle wins 151-strong RCV order

    Published On: Tuesday 14 January 2025

    Birmingham City Council is replac­ing an owned fleet of worn-out vehicles and hired-in trucks with 151 new Dennis Eagle refuse col­lection vehicles. The new trucks will begin arriv­ing in March [...]

  • RHA calls for reform of rules on ‘clandestine entrants’

    Published On: Wednesday 8 January 2025

    The Road Haulage Association (RHA) has urged the government to introduce reforms to the penalty scheme applied when so-called clandestine entrants are found on vehicles coming into the UK, which [...]

  • DfT consults on relaxing rules for electric vans

    Published On: Tuesday 7 January 2025

    The Department for Transport (DfT) has opened a consultation into proposals that would reduce the regulatory burden on operators of zero-emission vans in terms of drivers hours’ rules and roadworthiness [...]

  • RHA: roads investment will drive economic growth

    Published On: Wednesday 18 December 2024

    The Road Haulage Association (RHA) has urged the government to boost road capacity as a means of growing the economy, warning that a reliance on merely repairing existing routes will [...]

  • Trade groups: put logistics at heart of devolution plans

    Published On: Tuesday 17 December 2024

    Key industry trade associations have responded to a new white paper published by the government yesterday, which sets out its planned direction for devolution across England. The white paper proposes [...]

  • MPs debate freight crime in parliament

    Published On: Thursday 12 December 2024

    Members of parliament held an in-depth discussion on the subject of freight crime in a Westminster Hall debate last week, with a focus on reducing the financial and personal burdens [...]

  • O-licence changes go digital-only

    Published On: Wednesday 11 December 2024

    The Office of the Traffic Commissioner (OTC) has announced that all alterations to transport managers on operator licences, and applications to surrender licences, will need to be performed digitally from [...]