• TEG: transport pricing stabilises after record high increase

    Published On: Wednesday 10 November 2021

    Road transport pricing in the UK stabilised in October according to recent figures from the Transport Exchange Group (TEG), following the highest price-per-miles average over 33 months in September 2021. [...]

  • CNG Fuels to host HGV hydrogen trials

    Published On: Tuesday 2 November 2021

    Low-carbon fuel supplier CNG Fuels has announced plans to host hydrogen fuel trials across its rapidly expanding UK network of public access biomethane refuelling stations, to support the future decarbonisation [...]

  • Fuel-cell hybrid to power Tevva’s 7.5-tonner

    Published On: Thursday 28 October 2021

    Tevva, the British-based, Israeli-owned electric truck start-up, has received a £4.2 million grant from the government-backed Advanced Propulsion Centre to develop long-range zero-emissions medium-duty trucks. Powered by fuel-cell hybrids, the [...]

  • Look after the drivers, says agency

    Published On: Wednesday 27 October 2021

    More needs to be done to keep experienced truck drivers behind the wheel to help address the current shortage, with more respect and improved conditions top of the list – [...]

  • Record electric Volvo order for DFDS

    Published On: Wednesday 27 October 2021

    Logistics giant DFDS has ordered 100 FM Electrics from Volvo Trucks. The deal is the largest commercial order to date for Volvo electric trucks, and one of the largest ever [...]

  • Scania unveils three-axle LNG tractor

    Published On: Tuesday 26 October 2021

    Scania has launched a 6×2 lift-axle equipped LNG (liquefied natural gas) tractor unit. Equipped with a lightweight Hendrickson centre lift-axle, the vehicle is available to order immediately, and means Scania [...]

  • Gasrec: steady as you go on gas prices

    Published On: Friday 22 October 2021

    James Westcott, chief commercial officer of gas road fuel supplier Gasrec, has warned operators should not be put off switching to the fuel by headline-grabbing price increases. “It’s a commodity-based [...]

  • Government plans to relax cabotage rules

    Published On: Friday 15 October 2021

    The Department for Transport (DfT) has launched a week-long consultation into a plan to relax the rules around cabotage by foreign operators within Great Britain, in its latest bid to [...]

  • AdBlue supply may face threat from gas price rises

    Published On: Thursday 14 October 2021

    The high gas prices that have caused the much-reported shortages in industrial CO2 supply may yet have a more serious consequence: an interruption in the supply of AdBlue that modern [...]