GOVERNMENT efforts to ease the transport sector’s driver shortage crisis with extended driving hours and ‘very limited’ exemptions to current Covid-19 self-isolation rules have been met with short shrift. Both Logistics UK and RHA dismissed […]
SCANIA is to participate in a feasibility study into the operation of long haul electrified trucks utilising charging provided by overhead wires on electric roads, the first study of its type to take place in […]
TIP-EX & TANK-EX is back with a live event happening from 30 September to 2 October! Organiser Road Transport Media says it has been working tirelessly to ensure a safe return which delivers the biggest, […]
Motorway trials of HGV platooning have begun after the project stalled during the start of the pandemic. The consortium behind the trials said that the trucks are on the roads and are likely to be […]
SHARP picture spotting by a reader from Inverness-shire has won this month’s model truck prize in our exclusive Transport News competition run in conjunction with Search Impex. On the receiving end of a Mercedes Actros […]
PRIME Minister Boris Johnson has strongly suggested that, emanating from Sir Peter Hendy’s Union Connectivity Review, the busy A75 Euroroute that links Cairnryan with the M6 will be ‘upgraded to offer higher capacity, and people […]
THE INAUGURAL Innovation and Technology in Transport (ITT Hub) event made its debut on 30 June-1 July 2021. Held at Farnborough International Exhibition & Conference Centre, the exhibition was attended by 4,000 members of the […]
RENAULT Trucks has expanded its dealer network with the opening of a new service point near Glasgow. Working with wholly owned dealer, Renault Trucks Scotland, A&D Logistics Ltd joins 74 other strategically located sites across […]
WARTON Freight Services has marked 30 years in the haulage industry by putting a new Volvo FH 8×2 rigid onto the road, equipped with a 70 tonne/metre Fassi crane. The West Thurrock based family-owned business […]
CROUCH Recovery has expanded its vehicle lifting capabilities at its Leicestershire workshop with a Y-MECH Lift from Totalkare. The Kibworth based, family run operator’s fleet of more than 70 heavy and light recovery vehicles, are […]
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