On 21 February, the Spanish and Portuguese authorities introduced a ban on drivers taking weekly (45-hour) rests in their cabs. The penalty of €2,000 is higher than many other European countries.

Van drivers are risking accidents by failing to leave enough distance to stop, according to research by Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles, which shows over half of van drivers don’t know how heavy loads impact braking distances.

Southampton City Council has scrapped plans to introduce a Clean Air Zone (CAZ) that would have seen non-Euro VI lorries facing £100-per-day charges.

According to data supplied by Road Haulage Association (RHA) members during October 2018, wages for HGV drivers in the UK are increasing faster than inflation.

The Freight Transport Association (FTA) says businesses operating in and around Leeds urgently need clarification on Leeds City Council’s newly-approved Clean Air Zone (CAZ).

The UK government announced in January that it is investing £7.2m in robots to help repair the UK's vast underground pipe network and prevent the disruption caused by roadworks in the future.

From Tuesday, 29 January, 2019 the way the UK’s Driver & Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) collects roadside payments changed. Instead of paying by chip & PIN, fixed penalties are now collected using a secure payment portal.

Last November the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) in the UK announced that if its inspectors found truck tyres being used that were more than 10 years old, follow up investigations would be carrier out on the vehicle’s operator.

Scania has opened a new service centre in Bridgewater, Somerset. The facility was opened on 5 December 2018 by His Excellency Mr Torbjörn Sohlström, Sweden's Ambassador to the UK.

The German Bundestag has amended federal highway toll law to exempt trucks powered by natural gas from tolls from 1 January, 2019 for a period of two years. The change is intended help to reduce the country’s growing CO2 emissions from the transport sector and provide a stimulus for the natural gas vehicle sector.

Volvo has recently launched a range of improvements to its trucks including the map-based I-See software that uses map data to preview the topography of the route, and takes care of gear selection, acceleration and engine braking.

CVC Capital Partners Fund VII (“CVC”) recently signed an agreement to acquire a 20% stake in DKV MOBILITY SERVICES Group (“DKV”).

A recently released report, European Road Freight Transport 2018, claims that Europe has a shortage of HGV drivers of around 150,000. The UK is the worst affected with 52,000 vacancies and Germany has 45,000 vacancies.

The UK government has issued guidance on the permit application scheme.

Did you know suicide is now the biggest killer of men under the age of 45 in the UK? Many of those who take their own lives struggle with mental health issues and suffer in silence for fear of isolation, ridicule or lack of support from those around them.

Tolls on both Severn Crossings will be abolished on Monday, 17 December 2018, just in time for the festive getaway, the UK government has announced.

Homeowners with charging points for electric vehicles on their driveways can now make extra cash by renting them out as parking spaces to motorists with electric vehicles (EVs).

Lucy Sadler from Sadler Consultants Europe GmbH has provided advance warning of a likely Euro 6 diesel low emission zone in Berlin in 2019.

The Freight Transport Association (FTA) in the UK has commented on October’s report from the National Audit Office (NAO) confirming that the fears of the UK transport industry over border readiness for Brexit in the event of no deal are justified.

Volvo Trucks has launched a new tyre management service in Sweden as well as a major test pilot for advanced monitoring of trucks in Europe. By also applying machine learning, the accuracy of predicting and preventing unplanned stops will be improved even further.