For all the good intent and subsequent legislation from action groups and government, the ones that have to make the change from diesel-powered trucks to emission free vehicles are the hauliers, writes Kevin Swallow.
That means investment.
Driving change is the Scottish government’s Climate Change Act, the National Transport Strategy to reach net-zero emissions by 2045.
Some have made a start switching to HVO or biogas, others have embraced their first battery electric vehicles. Challenges are well voiced: cost, range, payload, charging and infrastructure.
Speaking at the inaugural Transport News Roundtable are Martin Reid (RHA), Andrew Malcolm MBE (Malcolm Group), Annette Nemethova (Gregory Group, representing Scotland’s group of companies; ARR Craib, Hayton Coulthard, John Mitchell, Pollock), Alan Bolsworth and Mark McElwee (A&D Logistics), Fraser Maclean (M&H Carriers), and Gordon McMurdo and John Murdoch (J&M Murdoch & Son).
In future editions of Transport News, the Roundtable delegates will tackle truckstops, road infrastructure and recruitment.
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