UK DELIVERY company DPD is launching an air quality monitoring programme across six UK cities. ‘Project Breathe’ is live in London with 100 mobile air quality sensors on the roof of DPD vans and 20 […]
APRIL’s, light commercial registrations saw a huge +798% improvement compared to last year, although it is significant that April 2020 was the first full month of lockdown in the UK. Last month was the busiest […]
INTERNET retailers and companies that import products from the Far East to the UK are facing major supply chain disruption and increased logistics costs as a result of a global shortage of shipping containers which […]
P&O FERRIES is returning a fifth Ro-Ro ship on its Dover-Calais route on the English Channel. Pride of Burgundy with capacity to carry 120 lorries, will return in June, restoring the P&O Dover-Calais fleet to […]
THE RHA is calling for urgent government action to ease the driver shortage, made worse by the introduction of IR35 tax changes. The situation was critical before the pandemic with many EU truckers heading home. […]
“THE ARRIVAL of self-driving vehicles on UK roads is seen as something of an evolution rather than revolution, but it does threaten to tear up the rulebook when it comes to motoring law,” says Paul […]
Iveco launched T-WAY, the successor to the construction behemoth Trakker, to complete its renewal of the heavy truck range. Done virtually from Turin, T-WAY is the tougher sibling to the highway-friendly X-WAY range. T-WAY is […]
LOGISTICS UK, has welcomed news that the European Parliament has accepted the terms of the Trade and Customs Agreement (TCA) which was announced on 24 December 2020. Sarah Laouadi, European policy manager for the organisation […]
An HGV driver found in possession of a stun gun and pepper spray, which he claimed was for his protection after illegal immigrants broke his arm during an attack in France, has been jailed for […]
THE RHA reminds drivers that if their lorry driving licence was automatically extended by 11 months they won’t be sent another ‘application for renewal of lorry and bus entitlement’ form before their extension ends. Drivers […]
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