MV COMMERCIAL has opened its fifth depot, near Oxford to serve new and existing customers in the area and provide HS2 contractors easy access to Euro 6 equipment. The new one-acre site on Field Driveway, […]
RENAULT Truck Commercials has opened the first dedicated parts recycling centre and launches a new parts website. Located at Renault Trucks South dealership in Reading, the recycling centre is a fully Authorised Treatment Facility (ATF) […]
Tesco is offering lorry drivers a £1,000 joining bonus in a bid to secure food deliveries as the UK’s driver shortage crisis worsens. The supermarket giant is offering the bonus for candidates who join before […]
The UK Government is funding a major trial of long haul electrified trucks powered by overhead wires. Money will come from a £20m budget set aside for zero emission road freight trials under the government’s […]
The government has warned operators that exemptions to current Covid-19 self-isolation rules will only be for ‘very limited’ exceptional circumstances, assessed on a case-by-case basis, and added that it was ‘not designed to mitigate acute […]
A lack of secure parking facilities means more than 1,400 lorry drivers will be spending the night in unsafe conditions, claimed Logistics UK. Despite government assurances over the past three years that ‘provision of adequate […]
VAN operators throughout the nation have had no representative body, no-one to fight their corner when needed, suggests the Road Haulage Association. Who better to fly the flag for vans than the RHA? “Backed by […]
Sainsbury’s has followed Tesco in hiking its primary distribution charges in response to rising haulier rates driven by the HGV driver shortage. The 2.9% increase was revealed in a letter to the supermarket’s primary suppliers. […]
SMMT’s recent Low Volume and Specialist Vehicle Manufacturers report outlines how Britain is a world leader in producing low volume, high value vehicles, everything from 250mph hypercars to campervans, limousines to electric taxis, motorhomes, wheelchair […]
Government plans aimed at tackling the HGV driver shortage crisis stops short of issuing temporary visas to foreign drivers and will focus on training and recruitment. In a statement (issued 20 July) the government said […]
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