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Visit the Passengerfta stand at Coach & Bus Live

Passengerfta, which offers a range of services and products specifically designed for passenger transport operators, will be exhibiting at the Coach and Bus Live show, to be held at the NEC, Birmingham, from 5-6 October ...

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Fuel duty puts foreign truckers miles ahead of UK, says FTA

Foreign truckers get more mileage for their money thanks to the disproportionately high rate of fuel duty imposed by the Government on UK hauliers. The Freight Transport Association says that £1,000 of diesel bought at a forecourt in Europe will take a typical heavy goods vehicle over 280 miles further than one that filled up at a forecourt in the UK ...

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ASDA signs up to Logistics Carbon Reduction Scheme

ASDA has become the latest company to join an industry-led, voluntary scheme to measure and ultimately reduce carbon dioxide emissions from lorries and vans. Members of the Freight Transport Association's Logistics Carbon Reduction Scheme now represent over 50,000 commercial vehicles ...

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Suckling Transport Ltd scoops EuroTra Safety and Innovation Award

An intelligent approach to driver training has won UK’s Suckling Transport Ltd the EuroTra Safety and Innovation Award 2011. The Essex-based fuel distributor’s use of driver performance data to identify the specific training requirements of its 150+ drivers, along with specialist training for six in-house trainer/drivers ...

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High volume semi-trailers: good for business, good for carbon emissions says FTA

The Freight Transport Association has welcomed the announcement today (11 October) that the Government is pressing ahead with operational trials of high volume semi-trailers. Under the plans a limited number of permits will be made available for operators to run articulated lorries up to 2 metres longer than existing, standard articulated vehicles ...

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Pressure pays off as long-awaited House of Commons fuel duty debate is secured, says FTA

Following concerted industry pressure from the Freight Transport Association (FTA) and its partners in the Fair Fuel UK Campaign (FFUK), a formal debate on fuel duty will be heard in the House of Commons ...

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DAF puts quality first as 500th technician achieves FTA accreditation

Leading commercial vehicle manufacturer DAF Trucks, which has signed up to the Institute of Road Transport Engineers Certificate (irtec) technician accreditation scheme, has had 500 of its technicians accredited since becoming the first truck manufacturer to adopt the scheme throughout its entire dealer network ...

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Heads of the Valley upgrade gets thumbs up from FTA

The Welsh Government's proposals to inject £150m into dualling a crucial section of the A465, known as the Heads of the Valley, will reduce journey time and improve road safety, says the Freight Transport Association (FTA) ...

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Logistics industry concern over consideration of tax on rail freight

This week's announcement of a government consultation on the use of red diesel (as rebated gas oil is known) in non-road vehicles is a significant concern for the freight sector, according to the Freight Transport Association (FTA), whose members move more than 90% of the UK’s rail freight nationwide.

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Threat to rail freight growth defused as Brussels accepts need for 'flexibility'

A threat to the future growth of the UK’s rail freight market has been avoided following news that the EU’s Non-Road Mobile Machinery Directive will allow more flexibility to produce engines ...

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