Change in the retail landscape is moving the goalposts for urban deliveries. Balancing the demands of high street and home deliveries is creating new challenges – and then there is the drive to be greener and cleaner. Malory Davies reports
Browsing: Policy and legislation
Bibby Distribution is lobbying the Department for Transport to extend its current allocation of 15.65m trailers after reaching the 25 originally allocated under the trial scheme
Scania has claimed a world first by delivering its first gas truck complying with the Euro 6 emission legislation to a customer. Bring Logistics is a Nordic player with a declared ambition of offering its customers the latest environmental solutions
The Freight Transport Association and the Road Haulage Association have both welcomed the Driving Standards Agency’s review on the possibility of exempting technicians testing vehicles from the scope of the Driver CPC
The European Commission has told the British and French governments to stop “excessive track access charges for passenger and freight trains in the Channel Tunnel”
Sat-nav firm TomTom has created an all in one fleet management system dubbed Webfleet Tachograph Manager
The Freight Transport Association has become a consortium member of the new Research Centre for Sustainable Road Freight, supporting the new initiative to develop technical and operational solutions to road freight transport challenges
Government departments must produce a ‘joined-up’ policy on the transport of biomass, John Smith, managing director of GB Railfreight has told the House of Commons Committee for Energy and Climate Change
CLECAT, which represent European freight forwarders, is pressing the European Commission not to abandon its goal of a liberalised single European transport area
The Freight Transport Association and Road Haulage Association have together voiced their concern at the recent advice issued by the Department for Transport regarding garage technicians and mechanics driving HGVs to statutory annual tests being considere
