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THE RHA has welcomed the publication of a Road Freight on Clean Air Zones’ report that concludes that CAZ is a case of ‘right policy, wrong approach’. Noting the reports of changed travel patterns during […]

IN ORDER to keep up with recent increases in paper prices, coupled with a January rise in Royal Mail postage costs, the publishers of Transport News have had no alternative but to raise the cover […]

ROAD TECH Computer Systems are celebrating the success of Tachomaster, their tachograph analysis system which was launched in 2006, when tachographs went digital and last month Tachomaster’s servers recorded that it had successfully analysed 173,656,087 […]

FLEET managers are warned there is a hidden deadline to applying for Transport for London’s Direct Vision Standard (DVS) permit. As of October, goods vehicles over 12 tonnes required a permit to drive into Greater […]

AN ALLIANCE of Daimler (Mercedes-Benz), Scania, MAN, Volvo, DAF, Iveco, plus light commercial/van maker Ford have signed a pledge to phase out pure diesel engines and focus on hydrogen, battery technology and clean fuels, all […]

WITH approximately 10,000 trucks backed up ahead of Christmas waiting to get into France and beyond, the DfT said 15,526 coronavirus tests on lorry drivers were carried out, with only those that test negative allowed […]

COMMERCIAL Vehicle Auctions (CVA) has moved to a weekly online sale of HGVs and trailers, replacing the fortnightly sales at Doncaster and Hemel Hempstead and the monthly sale at Livingston. The popularity of digital sales […]

THE RHA has confirmed that the UK-French border has reopened for accompanied freight services and some passenger services. However, this is on the proviso that everyone travelling from the UK into France is able to […]

THE FIRST half of December has seen bridge strikes in Kent and South East London at nearly double the average rate, leading to renewed calls for drivers to know the heights of their vehicles. Railway […]

REACTING TO international border closures, Stena Line brought forward the introduction of its Stena Foreteller ferry on the Rosslare-Cherbourg service to Tuesday 22nd December. The freight-only ferry will join the Stena Horizon which already operates […]