Alcott Global’s Fei Yu on which IT employment trends are prevalent in supply chain

Piotr Roczniak, Head of Business Consulting at Trans.eu Global, is one of the many experts contributing to CargoOn's quarterly Market Insights ON reports, which cover the key developments in the road transport sector as well as what challenges may await in the near future.

Trans.eu’s Piotr Roczniak explains the key factors impacting road freight rates as 2023 draws closer

The build up to this year's Fifa World Cup in Qatar was dominated by allegations of migrant construction workers being mistreated in the country. What about lorry drivers though? To get at least one driver's first-hand experience, we contacted <a href="http://www.novalifeglobalrecruiters.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Novalife Global Recruiters</a>, who help HGV drivers with experience working in the Middle East find work in Europe.

Indian trucker tells of his experience in Qatar and how he found work in Europe

Hungarian road freight and logistics services provider Waberer’s International Group acquired Polish haulier Link back in 2018, merging the company with Waberer's Polska in October of that year. In this interview, Barna Erdélyi, a member of Waberer’s board of directors, and Marcin Kakol, CEO of Link, look back on the merger and the years that have followed<em>.</em>

How did Link’s merger with Waberer’s help both companies grow stronger?

Hauliers in Bosnia and Herzegovina, much like the rest of Europe, are struggling to deal with a driver shortage. However, on top of all the universal factors impacting the shortage, such as tough working conditions and the nature of the job itself, hauliers from Bosnia and Herzegovina are also having to grapple with truckers being poached by firms in countries like Slovenia or Germany.

Bosnian hauliers paying for tests and training of prospective drivers amid labour shortage

Genie Insights has revealed that McBurney Transport Group, recently acquired by DFDS, has opted to fit all of its new refrigerated trailers with solar panels, following an extensive one-year trial. 

McBurney Transport Group to have 146 trailers fitted with solar panels

In recent days, industrial action has been ongoing across France as trade unions strike against pension reforms being brought in by the French Government. This has caused a degree of disruption across the country, with further industrial action planned for tomorrow. To add fuel to the fire for international hauliers, UK Border Force staff are due to go on strike again on Wednesday, with the UK Government warning that hauliers should be “prepared for potential disruption and longer queues at ports and inland border facilities".

Fears of Dover-Calais disruption due to strikes on both sides of the channel

A Swiss road transport company has covered 3000 kilometres with an electric truck travelling from Switzerland to Spain and back. While the distance travelled by Krummen's electric Volvo lorry is a record-breaking achievement in the history of electric road transportation, it also showed the weaknesses of available infrastructure on the road.

Electric HGV breaks record: 3,000 kilometres travelled with 20 tons of load

Container shipping and logistics company Maersk has announced the integration and unification of different Maersk brands including the more-than-150-year-old Hamburg Süd and SeaLand.

Maersk axes the names of two historic shipping companies

Girteka has reiterated its determination to recruit even more drivers from Asian nations such as India and the Philippines. In an update on its website, the Lithuanian transport giant said no “effort is spared" in its attempts to attract drivers from the continent of Asia. 

Girteka “sparing no effort” to recruit more Asian drivers

Container hotel accommodation provider Roatel opened its latest hotel in Saxony-Anhalt at the end of January and is launching another one in Schleswig-Holstein in the coming weeks, the company announced. Roatel also added that its European expansion is on the horizon in 2024.

Two new container hotels to open in Germany in coming weeks

A logistics company from Düsseldorf has decided to test a 4-day working week for employees. A pilot has been running since the beginning of this year.

German logistics firm begins trialing 4-day working week

Passengers will be boarding the world’s first fully sized, self-driving bus service in Edinburgh from spring after it was awarded a share of £81 million in joint UK government and industry support for self-driving transport technology. The project is one of seven successful projects from around the UK partly funded by the state, out of which two projects are about building sustainable self-driving HGVs.

UK Government grants handed out to 7 autonomous vehicle projects

Official figures from the Irish government have shown a record level of articulated lorry traffic at the ROI-NI border in 2022. The number of HGVs crossing the border has been steadily increasing since 2013, when the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (Nisra) began collating the figures.

Official Irish data shows record level of HGVs border-crossing in 2022

Iveco is starting public road testing of its next generation highly automated HGVs in Germany. As a part of the public road testing, the truck manufacturer and its autonomous driving solutions provider partner Plus will collect road data to validate their autonomous truck’s operations and start designing the potential factory production.

Iveco’s highly automated HGV public road tests start in Germany this month

The seemingly insatiable appetite of the Lithuanian road transport industry for non-EU and EEA lorry drivers has been laid bare in official data <a href="https://uzt.lt/naujienos/8/uzsienieciams-isduota-maziau-leidimu-dirbti:152?__cf_chl_tk=PphHEaXErnF5.zTdj.6RoFTiOHyQSoqMN7JiN8WE85I-1675330653-0-gaNycGzNB9E" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">recently published by the country's Employment Office</a>.

Almost 80% of Lithuania’s 3rd-country work permits went to HGV drivers in 2022

More stability, better handling, shorter turnaround times and thus more efficiency in part-load transports, these are promises made by the new double-deck trailer presented by the Europäische Ladungs-Verbund Internationaler Spediteure (ELVIS) last week.

Latest double-deck Vario trailer creates 62 pallet spaces

Figures shared by road toll operator Viapass have shown that the number of kilometres covered by lorries in 2022 fell for the first time in Belgium since the company began recording the data.

Toll data shows fall in truck mileage in Belgium for 1st time since records began

International road transport company Boekestijn Transport has continued its rapid fleet growth by ordering 500 Mercedes-Benz Actros trucks.

Dutch haulier Boekestijn Transport orders 500 Mercedes-Benz Actros trucks

London-based zero-emission vehicle company First Hydrogen has shared some images of its coming Generation II light commercial vehicles that will allow for customization to suit operational use and can be employed for a wide range of applications.

First Hydrogen reveals 1st images of futuristic looking next-generation LCV

The Mayor of London has announced a new vehicle scrappage scheme to help eligible Londoners prepare for the expansion of the Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ) across all London boroughs from 29 August 2023.  The scrappage scheme is open for applications from 30 January 2023.

TfL updates scrappage scheme ahead of August’s ULEZ expansion

trans.iNFO is delighted to announce the launch of its Ukrainian-language news and analysis service, which is aimed at Ukraine’s exporters & importers, logistics companies, and lorry drivers.

trans.iNFO launches in Ukrainian, making its service available in 8 European languages

The EU won't ban diesel HGV production until 2040, according to a leaked document seen by Euroactive, a pan-European news website specialised in EU policies.

Report: EU draft proposal recommends no ban on diesel HGV production until 2040

Earlier this month, Girteka used the “celebrate" icon under a LinkedIn post detailing the EU Commission's clarification that HGV inspectors cannot demand documental evidence of past weekend rest spent outwith the cab. Girteka has since clarified what was meant by this gesture, and also offered its wider thoughts on weekend rest requirements as a whole.

Girteka offers thoughts on weekend rest rules and benefits of AI tools