The Road Haulage Association (RHA) has outlined how UK hauliers are working to help bring humanitarian aid to the Ukrainian people, as the war with Russia continues to devastate the [...]
Recent reports have highlighted apparent signs that the HGV driver shortage is stabilising, seemingly due in part to increased provision of driving tests by the Driver & Vehicle Standards Agency. [...]
UK transport rates up 15% but costs bite into profits
Published On: Tuesday 1 March 2022
British road freight operators enjoyed a year-on-year rate increase of 15 per cent in January, but this is tempered by the highest fuel costs in Europe and the most acute [...]
British market leader DAF will launch a new range of distribution trucks featuring a cab based on the latest XF design before the end of the year. Expected to be [...]
The Department for Transport (DfT) has implemented regulatory changes that officially permit a new generation of more environmentally friendly, aerodynamic HGVs to operate on Britain’s roads. The new rules, which [...]
MAN Truck & Bus has reported that it is accelerating its timetable for the introduction of zero-emission CVs, with planned production of heavy-duty electric trucks in Munich brought forward by [...]
Aberdeen, the UK’s first ‘hydrogen city’, has put a fuel-cell powered refuse collection vehicle into service. The converted Mercedes Econic chassis will be fuelled with renewable ‘green’ hydrogen produced by [...]
More truck parking is now urgently required around Dover, reports suggest, as post-Brexit delays start to take their toll following the introduction of export controls at the start of the [...]
Commercial vehicle fleet hire giant Ryder System is planning to exit the UK market with an “orderly withdrawal” over the next 12 to 18 months. A statement from the American-owned [...]
