Volvo Trucks has supplied CEMEX with its first fully electric, zero-emission heavy-duty concrete mixer – the Volvo FMX Electric. This battery-electric truck is part of an ongoing global collaboration between the two companies to develop and scale emissions-free transport for the demanding construction industry.
MAN Truck & Bus is donating one million euros as emergency aid for the victims of the earthquakes in Turkey and Syria. In addition, the Volkswagen Group is also donating one million euros on behalf of its brands for emergency aid in the affected countries.
During National Apprenticeship Week 2023, the British International Freight Association (BIFA) is calling on freight forwarding and logistics companies to consider recruiting apprentices.
Following a winter of discontent in the Supply Chain and Transport industry, today Amazon workers have announced a series of potential strikes
Civil engineering firm Kier has been fined more than £4m after its staff twice struck overhead powerlines while working on the M6 motorway
Millions of families, commuters and school children are being encouraged to take up healthy habits this year. Local councils will benefit from skills training and a boost to green jobs thanks to a £32.9 million scheme launched today (2 January 2023) which will enable them to develop thousands of well thought-through local walking and cycling schemes, co-created by the communities that will use them.
2022 presented itself as another highly challenging year for the UK road haulage network. Record high fuel prices added further crippling costs to the already beleaguered industry that was recovering from Covid and Brexit restrictions.
On 16 November 2020, Robert Gifkins, who worked for Arnold Laver & Company Ltd, was delivering timber to a company in Whaddon near Salisbury. He had climbed onto the bed of his trailer to sling the load and attach it to the vehicle-mounted crane.
Lorry drivers will benefit from improved and safer rest areas and roadside facilities thanks to up to £100 million investment from industry and government, the Roads Minister Richard Holden has announced.
Having faced unprecedented rises in fuel costs during the last ten months, fleets have been warned they government may be plotting to increase fuel duty by 23% at the spring budget.
