Month: June 2019

FTA HAS reacted to Leeds and Birmingham Councils’ decision to delay the start of their Clean Air Zones, by saying it was the only step available to them, and the right thing to do. FTA […]

DVLA IS no longer accepting any medical reports on lorry drivers from the company Doctors on Wheels, following an investigation by Trading Standards and the DVLA into claims that D4 medicals were not being completed […]

FTA IS calling for the government to include vans in its consultation on banning 10 year old tyres. With more than 4.2 million of these vehicles on UK roads, van operators must be held against […]

TRISCAN Group, manufacturer and supplier of fuel management systems, are fuelled for further growth with the acquisition of Liquid Management Solutions Ltd. LMS, based in Wolverhampton, have been providing a range of fuel management systems […]

FOR MANY professional lorry drivers in the UK the deadline to complete their driver CPC periodic training and maintain their current card is approaching. Drivers who haven’t already done so, need to make sure they […]

BULLET EXPRESS has purchased over 180,000sq.ft of land behind their Baillieston storage centre to build a £5m multi-temp storage warehouse. This purchase has been driven by the ‘phenomenal response’ to the company entering the storage […]

LOGISTICS businesses anticipate that 15% of their current HGV driver vacancies will not be filled due to the nationwide skills shortage, according to the 2019 Logistics Report, launched by FTA that polled the opinions of […]

IN A MOVE designed to accelerate the growth of the biofuel market, Eminox and Johnson Matthey have signed an agreement where Eminox has developed an engineered solution to package the catalyst within the Fischer Tropsch […]

EDINBURGH City Council has released proposal for its Low Emission Zone (LEZ). The plans include two zones: one within Edinburgh’s city centre, and a second phase that encapsulates the city wide boundary marked by the […]

NOx EMISSIONS from trucks have been halved in only five years, according to Department for Transport figures that show a 52% fall between 2013 and 2018 as haulage firms have upgraded to cleaner Euro 6 […]