The Driver & Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) has announced the publication of its first Market Surveillance Unit (MSU) report on vehicle and component testing. The MSU’s testing scheme is designed [...]
Transport trade groups have responded positively to a number of key fiscal policies affecting the sector that were outlined by the chancellor Jeremy Hunt in yesterday’s autumn statement, while calling [...]
The global shortage of truck drivers is set to double by 2028, according to a new report by the international union for road transport, IRU. The report found that over [...]
Funding redirected following the cancellation of the HS2 rail project’s northern leg will be ploughed into resurfacing more than 5,000 miles of road across England, the Department for Transport has [...]
The Road Haulage Association (RHA) has announced that the deadline by which fleet operators that have been participating in the longer semi-trailer (LST) trial must switch to the new, post-trial [...]
The Road Haulage Association (RHA) last month urged the government to incentivise hauliers and coach operators to shift to low-carbon fuels like hydrotreated vegetable oil (HVO) through the introduction of [...]
West of England traffic commissioner (TC) Kevin Rooney has questioned the relevance of the current Certificate of Professional Competence syllabus to the core of the transport manager’s role: ensuring safety [...]
MAN Truck & Bus has opened sales for its first heavy-duty electric truck, in the form of the MAN eTGX for long-distance transport and the MAN eTGS for distribution. The [...]
Driver aids and safety systems, many of which were already offered on the recently-announced XB range of distribution trucks are to be standardised on all models of DAF New Generation [...]
