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Feb 21, 2020
According to a survey conducted by DriveElectric - one of the UK’s leading EV (Electric Vehicle) leasing companies - eight out of ten employees who currently opt out of a company car scheme would be keen to move back to company cars if they were electric.
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Feb 20, 2020
A concrete barrier that can be set up within hours to keep Kent’s roads moving at times of cross-channel disruption will be available from December this year. The announcement was made by Transport Secretary Grant Shapps on 17 February.
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Feb 13, 2020
The UK’s largest independent road safety charity, IAM RoadSmart, has said it is disappointed at yet another year of stagnation in the annual drink-drive statistics announced on 12 February, saying the ‘hardcore’ of persistent drink-drivers are still not getting the message.
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Feb 11, 2020
Highways England announced on 6 February that Britain’s biggest road project - to improve the busy A14 - is set be completed more than half a year early and will open to traffic this spring.
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Feb 10, 2020
The announcement by Boris Johnson on 4 February that the deadline for banning the sale of petrol and diesel cars and vans will be brought forward to 2035 has attracted comments from both the Freight Transport Association (FTA) and the Road Haulage Association (RHA).
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Feb 02, 2020
On 5 February, entries will open for a brand-new event in the logistics industry, FTA’s Transport Manager of the Year competition (Freight Transport Association).
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Feb 02, 2020
Both the Freight Transport Association (FTA) and the Road Haulage Association (RHA) have responded positively to the news that an urgent government review will take place into the safety of so-called Smart motorways currently being rolled out in the UK.
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Feb 02, 2020
New images showing plans for Britain’s longest road tunnel connecting Kent, Essex and Thurrock have been released as the project begins its next phase of public consultation.
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Jan 30, 2020
The Road Haulage Association has warned that charging truck operators £100 to enter a clean air zone (CAZ) in Bath will put firms at risk.
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Jan 28, 2020
From 26 October, 2020, the Direct Vision Standard (DVS) scheme will require HGVs over 12 tonnes entering or operating in London to have a safety permit.
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Jan 24, 2020
DAF Trucks has introduced a new function to its DAF Connect fleet management platform - Remote Tacho Download – that transport operators can use to read, store and analyse the memory of driver cards and tachographs online and in real time. Remote Tacho Download helps the operator to maintain an accurate tacho administration system and to save time.
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Jan 22, 2020
IVECO, FPT Industrial and Nikola have recently unveiled the Nikola TRE, the first Battery Electric Vehicle (BEV) resulting from the joint venture between the companies.
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Jan 17, 2020
Transport operators are among the first to identify the benefits of switching to electric vehicles (EVs), according to the Freight Transport Association (FTA), with nine out of ten operators who are already using EVs planning to expand their fleets within the next three years.
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Jan 10, 2020
The Freight Transport Association (FTA) said 2019 was another successful year for Van Excellence with a further 91 companies achieving accreditation.
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Jan 10, 2020
Details of work to remove the steel barrier on the M20 in Kent, installed last year as part of Operation Brock, have been confirmed by Highways England.
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Jan 09, 2020
Plans for a Zero Emission Zone (ZEZ) in Oxford, published in January 2020, are effectively a tax on trucks and vans in areas of the city, according to the Freight Transport Association (FTA).
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Jan 07, 2020
The Road Haulage Association’s (RHA) latest Cost Movement Report, which gathers information from members and sets out to define industry trends, confirms fears that the ever increasing HGV driver shortage continues to hit UK firms hard.
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Dec 20, 2019
The Low Carbon Vehicle Partnership is appealing for HGV operators across the UK to take part in a new survey.
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Dec 19, 2019
IAM RoadSmart is calling for urgent action to tackle the number of people killed or injured in collisions involving drivers working or travelling on business.
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Dec 19, 2019
Volvo Trucks has announced it’s selling its Volvo FL and Volvo FE electric trucks in selected markets within Europe for use in cities.
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