• Gritter fleet boost helps keep roads open this winter

    Published On: Thursday 26 November 2020

    The Department for Transport (DfT) has announced a government contribution of more than £16 million to help Highways England roll out 93 new road gritters this winter, to help ensure [...]

  • DfT could trial 48-tonne trucks in intermodal work

    Published On: Friday 20 November 2020

    The Department for Transport (DfT) has opened a consultation into plans for a limited trial of six-axle artics with a maximum laden weight of 48 tonnes during domestic intermodal journeys, [...]

  • DfT publishes Brexit haulage guide as permit deadline arrives

    Published On: Friday 20 November 2020

    The Department for Transport (DfT) has published a new guide for hauliers to help them prepare for the end of the Brexit transition period on 1 January, as eleventh-hour negotiations [...]

  • Figures suggest licensed drivers still unwilling to take the wheel

    Published On: Monday 16 November 2020

    Research published last month has cast further light on the state of the perceived driver shortage, and the transport industry’s continued failure to recruit and, more importantly, retain, licensed truck [...]

  • Industry faces transport manager qualification crisis

    Published On: Saturday 14 November 2020

    Fewer than one in three candidates passed the most recent OCR (Oxford Cambridge and RSA) examination to obtain the transport manager (TM) certificate of professional competence (CPC) for road haulage. [...]

  • Annual tests to continue through lockdown

    Published On: Thursday 12 November 2020

    DVSA will continue to operate its annual tests for vehicles and trailers through the ATF network during the current lockdown. Operators have been asked to only book tests close to [...]

  • Network Rail reveals Britain’s ‘most-bashed bridges’

    Published On: Tuesday 10 November 2020

    Network Rail has named the Watling Street bridge on the A5 in Hinckley, Leicestershire, as winner of the dubious accolade of Britain’s ‘most-bashed bridge’ – having being struck 25 times [...]

  • Logistics sector faces major ‘no deal’ Brexit bill

    Published On: Tuesday 10 November 2020

    Logistics UK, formerly the Freight Transport Association, predicted last month that a failure of London and Brussels to reach a deal on the UK/EU future relationship by the end of [...]

  • Digitalise to survive, say aftermarket experts

    Published On: Friday 6 November 2020

    Messe Frankfurt, the organiser of the Automechanika events aimed at the automotive aftermarket, recently hosted a webinar discussion on the topic of how digitalisation is altering the way the sector [...]