Driver Shortage Hits One In Two

• Almost half of Britain's hauliers are unable to recruit experienced HGV drivers, and an overwhelming 61% write off the HGV driving test as irrelevant to their day-to-day......

Tolled You So . . .

• Big increases in Humber bridge tolls planned for January will cost local hauliers up to 220,000 a year extra and could even force some firms out of business, warns the Road......

Groves Goes For Steyr As Austrians Get Ready

• Austrian truck builder Steyr-Daimler-Puch is forging ahead with its plans to enter the UK HGV market in the autumn. S-D-P has revealed which models it will be selling in......

Kent Gets Heavy With Overloaders

• Overweight lorries entering the UK through Britain's busiest Channel ports are being blitzed by Kent County Council. Prosecutions by the local authority rose considerably in......

• Erf Looks Like Becoming The First Uk Truck Manufacturer...

The Sandbach-based builder is looking to fit the air-to-air charge-cooled 6CTAA8.3 engine in a new range of multiwheelers and lightweight 32-tonne GCW tractive units which will......