Air Liquide and TotalEnergies aim to deploy more than 100 hydrogen stations for heavy-duty vehicles on major European roads in the coming years. The two companies are creating a joint venture for this purpose.

More than 100 hydrogen filling stations for HGVs to be built in Europe by TotalEnergies

Carrier fraud, in which criminals imitate hauliers and other sub-contractors, including drivers with falsified documents, accounted for 84% of claims involving fraud or deception in 2022, according to TT Club, an independent provider of mutual insurance and related risk management services to the international transport and logistics industry.

Criminals imitating hauliers or subcontractors on the rise, insurer warns

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

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

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

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

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.

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