• HGV and PSV inspection manuals updated

    Published On: Tuesday 28 March 2023

    The DVSA has made changes to its HGV and PSV inspection manuals, which are used to as­sess vehicles being taken for annual test or undergoing road­side checks. Key changes high­lighted [...]

  • Call for UK progress on decarbonisation

    Published On: Monday 27 March 2023

    Logistics UK has called for more progress from government on road transport decarbonisation in the wake of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s warning that there is a “rapidly closing [...]

  • Electric DAF in capitals rally

    Published On: Saturday 25 March 2023

    DAF Trucks has entered the EV Rally 2023: a five-day 1,000+ mile driving event encompassing the UK and Ireland which will start in Cardiff before heading to London, Edinburgh, and [...]

  • DAF wins £160 million Asset Alliance order

    Published On: Friday 24 March 2023

    Fleet leasing and hire giant Asset Alliance Group has agreed an or­der with UK market leader DAF for 1,500 new electric and diesel trucks, in a deal worth more than [...]

  • Tevva’s hydrogen truck covers 1000km run

    Published On: Tuesday 21 March 2023

    Tevva’s dual-energy hydrogen-battery truck has covered a 1,000 km-plus return proving run from London to the Scottish border at Berwick-upon-Tweed in freezing conditions. On the return leg, the truck covered [...]

  • Survey: global vehicle emissions deadlines ‘unattainable’

    Published On: Monday 20 March 2023

    More than half of key experts working with the world’s vehi­cle manufacturers questioned in a recent survey believe that the current legislative timeta­ble for transitioning to electric vehicles is unattainable. [...]

  • Hydrogen funding expands horizons for H2Accelerate

    Published On: Sunday 19 March 2023

    Daimler Trucks, Volvo Group and Iveco’s H2Accelerate hydrogen collaboration has been confirmed funding for eight heavy-duty hydrogen filling stations from the Connecting Europe Facility, and a fleet of 150 hydrogen [...]

  • Accelera by Cummins to advance zero-emission transition

    Published On: Saturday 18 March 2023

    Cummins has launched a new brand for its non-diesel New Power business. Dubbed Accelera by Cummins, it is tasked with providing: “a di­verse portfolio of zero-emis­sions solutions for many of [...]

  • Proposed vehicle CO2 targets pose ‘enormous’ challenge

    Published On: Wednesday 15 March 2023

    The new, stricter carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions targets proposed last month by the European Commission for heavy-duty vehicles (HDVs) – trucks, buses and coaches – have prompted warnings from the [...]