HGV skills bootcamps Recent figures have revealed that job vacancies in the haulage sector decreased by 15.3% in the final quarter (October to December) of 2022. It is thought that the HGV driver shortage in the UK is still almost 50,000 but it is believed that these...
Ahead of the 2023 Spring Budget, Logistics UK has submitted its industry recommendations and concerns to the government. In this document, the main concern was the reported disproportionate rise in fuel duty compared to inflation. Logistics UK has proposed retaining...
Government announces £100m funding to improve truck stop facilities On 24th November the UK government announced a £100m package to improve HGV/truck facilities. Service station grant scheme Part of this funding will be used to open a grant scheme worth £32.5m to...
The government has launched a campaign called ‘Generation Logistics’, which will be an industry-led recruitment and awareness campaign supported by the government to help address the skills shortage in the transport and logistics sector. Why has the government...
Pallet-Track chief executive Caroline Green has reported there are promising signs that we could be through the worst of the HGV driver shortage crisis. Wage increases and more tests easing HGV driver shortage Since the height of the HGV driver shortage in...
Rail fares increase in line with July’s RPI inflation rate The government has confirmed that rail fares across England are due to increase by 3.8% in March 2022. This is the largest increase in rail fares within the last nine years with the increase being in line with...
Zero-Emission Vehicles The UK has confirmed that all new HGVs in the UK will be zero-emission by 2040. Furthermore, by 2035, the UK has committed to phasing out all-new non-zero-emission HGV’s weighing 26 tonnes or less. This is in addition to the UK’s 2030 phase out...
The government has recently announced plans that a new state-owned body called Great British Railways is proposed to replace Network Rail in what is being called the biggest shakeup in the rail sector for almost 25 years. Under the Williams-Shapps Plan for Rail, from...
As we move into 2021 and leave 2020 well and truly in the past, the HS2 project has reached some key milestones. Around 13,000 people are currently engaged directly on phase 1 of the project across approximately 240 work sites. Add in many thousands more employed in...
It’s all gone quiet over there…or has it? Now that we are approaching a month into the brave new world of the UK being outside of the confines of the EU and well into a third Covid “lockdown”, one could be forgiven for thinking that the much-predicted bedlam at the...
COVID-19 sends rail off the rails The Covid-19 pandemic has had far-reaching implications for many business sectors and on our way of life generally. Its impact on the rail industry has been particularly acute in the short-term, and although the long-term...
How has COVID-19 affected the haulage industry? In this article, we will be covering how COVID-19 has affected the haulage industry. The data we will be using in this article is from a series of surveys undertook by the Road Haulage Association (RHA) in April 2020. In...