Budget measures offer some respite for struggling fleets
Published On: Thursday 11 November 2021
Several measures announced in the Autumn Budget last month by the chancellor Rishi Sunak were broadly welcomed by transport trade groups, including a continued freeze on fuel duty. Logistics UK [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 – [...]
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 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]