The UK supermarket giant Sainsburys has announced that it will be conducting a trial using bio-methane to powers its HGVs. The trial will be used on the HGVs that run the Sainsburys Bristol to Dartmouth distribution route. This move follows a recent trial of the US company Clean Air Power’s‘Genesis’ Dual-Fuel.  This combination fuel is [...]

The FTA (Freight Transport Association) has stated it believes the HGV ban proposed in the Cotswolds is unworkable. Gloucestershire County Council is proposing a Lorry Management Zone in the Cotswolds to restrict any commercial vehicles over 7.5 tonnes.  The FTA believes this ban will neither produce any benefits nor should it be introduced.  The FTA [...]

The European Union (EU) has introduced a new directive aimed at improving lorry safety through improving the drivers’ mirrors. According to the regulations certain vehicles over 3.5 tones must be retrofitted with the proper devices by the 31st March 2009 to improve the driver’s field of vision.  The Freight Transport Association (FTA) has published a [...]

In these ‘difficult economic times’ as Gordon Brown is so fond of saying, the haulage industry is one sector of the economy that seems to be bucking the trend. With last month’s inflation rates at 3.8% – the price of everything is going up but most people’s salaries are not. Poor old public sector workers [...]