TRANSPORT Scotland (TS) has confirmed the Scottish government’s intention to create Low Emission Zones (LEZs) in four cities between February and May 2022. The air quality improvement initiative will be enforced in Glasgow, Edinburgh, Dundee […]
IN A transport infrastructure initiative more befitting the 22nd century, designers sweating over a possible fixed link between Scotland and Northern Ireland have come up with the concept of an underwater, yet floating tunnel, 50 […]
CNG FUELS has started building Scotland’s first public access renewable biomethane HGV refuelling station. The station near Glasgow will refuel up to 450 lorries a day when it opens in November, enabling HGVs to make […]
SCANIA Truck Rental celebrates its Silver Jubilee this year, having begun rental operations in the UK in March 1996 with a 200 strong fleet of 3-series trucks and four dealer network base rental offices. Since […]
ASSET Alliance Group has confirmed an order for 200 DAF tractor units, worth over £17 million, which include 4×2 and 6×2 tractor units with a range of cab sizes, delivered between April and August for […]
IN THE coming months many HGV workshops will for the first time have to perform a periodic smart tachograph inspection to the new Annex 1C legislation. From the summer of 2019, the DTCO tachograph was […]
THE ARRIVAL of Volvo’s I-Shift intelligent automated manual transmission (AMT) continues to be an important milestone in the truck manufacturing industry. By the end of 2020, more than one million Volvo trucks around the world […]
Transaid has launched its 2021 UK Cycle Challenge with a 170-mile ‘Way of the Roses’ coast-to-coast challenge. The route between Morecambe in Lancashire and Bridlington, East Yorkshire, will take place on 24-26 September 2021. Money […]
THE RHA welcomes the news that from 6 April, Covid testing will apply to all commercial vehicle drivers entering GB from continental EU (not Ireland) if they stay in GB for more than 48 hours, […]
The government must resolve groupage and parcel service issues to the EU after evidence showed that high rates and increased paperwork were threatening the profitability of SMEs, according to a Lords report. The EU Goods […]
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