The Competition Appeal Tribunal has today (8 June) delivered a landmark judgment entitling the RHA to proceed with its collective claim on behalf of hauliers seeking damages from the major European truck manufacturers who were found to have oper…
The RHA has renewed its call for an essential user rebate on fuel duty as the cost of diesel at the pump continues to rise sharply. The government’s weekly fuel prices shows that the increase is currently running at more than one pence per litre…
A small boost to the Government’s £950m Rapid Charging Fund (RCF) could deliver enough capacity for on-route HGV charging and hydrogen refuelling at all motorway service areas (MSAs) in England, according to an analysis by National Grid. The RCF…
Richard Meads, director of Meads Construction, has met with Treasury financial secretary Lucy Frazer to raise concerns about the rising cost of fuel. Meads Construction, which is an RHA member, runs 20 trucks as part of a construction and ground…
The industry has given a mixed reaction to new data suggesting nearly a third of the UK’s hauliers are at risk of imminent collapse due to record diesel prices and rapidly rising driver wages. Accountants Price Bailey checked the credit risk sco…
Her Royal Highness The Princess Royal, patron of transport charity Transaid, will address delegates at this year’s Microlise Transport Conference. The conference takes place on the 18th of May at the Coventry Building Society Arena. Microlise ha…
Government must act decisively and create a permanent parking site for handling queues of lorries when there is disruption crossing the channel, the RHA said this week. The call comes as this weekend saw lorries continuing to queue on the M20 an…
P&O’s decision to sack 800 workers and suspend services across the Dover Straits without warning has highlighted how vulnerable the UK’s major supply route across the Channel is to being cut off by “boardrooms on the other side of the world”…
The government scheme to bring 4,700 HGV drivers over on a temporary three month visa has attracted approximately 200 drivers in total and is now closed to new applicants, according to Home Office migration minister Kevin Foster. Appearing befor…
Europa Worldwide Group chief executive Andrew Baxter (pictured), who terminated his company’s membership of the RHA in October after slamming its handling of the petrol pump crisis and Brexit, has welcomed the departure of RHA chief executive Ri…
RHA chairman Moreton Cullimore (pictured) has written to Transport Secretary Grant Shapps this week to inform him that Richard Burnett has resigned as chief executive in the hope the association can resume direct communications with the minister…
Richard Burnett (pictured), chief executive of the RHA, has tendered his resignation after seven years in the role. RHA national chairperson Moreton Cullimore said Burnett had transformed the organisation during his tenure and worked tirelessly …
Bristol’s plan to launch its own clean air zone (CAZ) next summer will be “challenging” for hauliers and exemptions will be required to give firms time to upgrade, according to the RHA. The city council has secured £42m of government funding to …
The government’s decision to roll out all-lane running on smart motorways was “premature” and the programme should be “paused” until 2025 to properly assess its safety, according to a damning report published this week by the House of Commons Tr…