Eddie Stobart has made the first-ever UK delivery using its new high-volume trailer operating under the Department for Transport’s ten year trial. The trailer carried 54 retail cages full of groceries for Tesco –a 20 per cent increase in payload
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The European commission has ruled that Deutsche Post DHL must pay back between 500 million and one billion euros of state aid paid by the German government
The government has set out plans for a scheme to charge foreign lorries up to £10 a day to use UK roads
The European Commission has set out plans to modernise public procurement within the European Union saying it had become a priority in view of current budgetary constraints
Signs warning lorry drivers that their sat-navs are directing them down unsuitable roads could soon become commonplace under new rules being introduced by the Department for Transport
Tachographs and plans for European transport networks are top of the agenda when EU transport ministers meet on Monday (12th December)
The European Commission has is to refer Germany to the European Court of Justice for failure to implement common rules on achieving inter-operability of European railways
The proposed 4m limit on trailer heights must be scrapped, the FTA has told the European Commission in a letter to EU transport commissioner Siim Kallas
International shipping should be included in UK carbon emission targets for 2050, according the Committee on Climate Change which advises the UK government
Heysham Port has seen a 25 per cent rise in ro-ro volumes in the past six months following a £1m investment in infrastructure improvements
