A report on the state of the road freight supply chain by the House of Commons transport select commit­tee, which was released last month, has been met with a mixed [...]

The 2022 Commercial Vehicle Show, which took place at the end of May, saw thousands of visitors descend on the NEC Birmingham to view a wide array of vehicles, products [...]

German axle manufacturer BPW displayed an electric drive axle at the recent Commercial Vehicle Show in Birmingham. Rather than supply the unit to third parties, the company is to install [...]

Mercedes-Benz will reveal what it calls the ‘concept prototype’ of its all-electric eActros LongHaul at September’s IAA Show in Hannover, Germany. The launch comes just two years after Mercedes first [...]

Rising material prices are impacting on profits at European trailer market leader Schmitz Cargobull, while production is now being constrained by the availability of wood, CEO Andreas Schmitz told journalists [...]

Failures to notify the authorities of substantive changes to O-licences are a big issue, senior traffic commissioner Richard Turfitt (pictured, right) warned delegates at the Microsoft Transport Conference in Coventry. [...]

Construction material supplier Tarmac has ordered the UK’s first battery-electric mixer truck for Autumn delivery to work at Tarmac’s Washwood Heath site in Birmingham. The truck will supply construction materials [...]

A £200 million funding package announced by the Department for Transport (DfT) last month has been praised as a key step in decarbonising the sector. The transport minister Trudy Harrison [...]

Truck drivers’ wages are contin­uing to rise, amidst signs that industry recruitment and train­ing initiatives are beginning to have a tangible effect in less­ening the severity of the HGV driver [...]