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European forwarders’ organisation CLECAT has produced a position paper highlighting opposition to European Union proposals to standardise trailer heights at 4m

As we approach the outcomes of the Comprehensive Spending Review it is perhaps worth pausing and thinking about some of the implications for skills, says Dr Mick Jackson, chief executive of Skills for Logistics

The amount of freight moved by truck in the UK fell to 132 billion tonne kilometres last year – 13 per cent lower than 2008, according statistics from the Department for Transport.

The Freight Transport Association (FTA) has set out where it thinks the government should be directing its future transport spending, and how industry-led initiatives can be trusted to achieve greater results.

A programme of annual eco-driving training must yield major benefits for both drivers and vehicle operators.

The Freight Transport Association has rejected Department for Transport proposals to make eco-driving training a mandatory part of Driver CPC training

The only “EU 15″members with lower productivity than us are Greece, Spain and Portugal, and look where they are.

There is to be a very clear skills element to the government’s drive to a low carbon economy

Transport minister Paul Clark has reinforced his view that quiet night-time deliveries will be able to tackle urban congestion, reduce carbon emissions and encourage more reliable deliveries without impacting on the lives of local residents at the FTA’s U

Wincanton has developed a concept design for a semi-trailer which will have space for an additional four pallets per load.