In Volvo Trucks’ new Live Test – ‘The Flying Passenger’ – a paraglider and a Volvo FH are about to go on a breath-taking journey. The truck needs to keep the paraglider in the air while giving it a lift uphill, on winding mountain roads, so to succeed the truck must maintain speed
Read More »The latest innovative software feature to join TruTac’s TruControl tachograph analysis product is, TruDocument. This powerful feature provides an online document management and storage system
Read More »
Minor road collisions are costing HGV fleets many thousands of pounds because of the difficulty of proving liability and the high risk of fake personal injury claims. Video footage recorded by Intelligent Telematics’ IT1000 3G vehicle camera highlighted the difficulties faced by road transport operators recently when it captured the moment a car clips an HGV operated by retailer Poundworld on the M60 near Prestwich, Greater Manchester. Such incidents are occurring across the UK, often resulting in fraudulent claims against HGVs and increased insurance costs to the companies involved
Read More »A HGV transport and driver training school in Birmingham saved around £1,600 a week in bogus cash for crash claims after installing vehicle incident cameras.
Read More »
Specialist livestock haulier, Frank Hanna, has fitted ContiPressureCheck (CPC) systems onto his dedicated Volvo artic and drawbar trucks. To meet their demanding delivery deadlines, the busy livestock rigs operate from 3.00amin the morning transporting large loads of pigs, sheep and cattle
Read More »
Leading ferry company Stena Line is celebrating the fifth anniversary of its Belfast – Cairnryan service. The new service opened in 2011 and was part of an £80m investment by Stena Line which saw a new 27-acre state-of -the -art Loch Ryan Port being built at Cairnryan in Scotland and the introduction of two Superfast ships, the largest ferries ever to sail between Northern Ireland and Scotland
Read More »
Hundreds of young people tried their hand at driving a fork lift or sitting behind the wheel of an HGV during the three-day Skills Show 2016 at Birmingham
Read More »
Lancashire – based operator GBA Services has added a further 22 Krone trailers to its fleet as demand for the company’s services in the pharmaceutical and high-value, time-critical logistics sectors continues to expand
Read More »
Under new rules, motorists committing the offence of using a hand held mobile phone while driving will get six points on their licence and face a £200 fine
Read More »
As a direct result of the meeting of the Abnormal Loads Liaison Group, the haulage industry and other key stakeholders including highways, structure owners and enforcement authorities in April, it became clear that there were many issues affecting the abnormal load industry.
Read More »
Haulage Today © 2025
Site by Reverb Studios Design
