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Yesterday’s budget saw a raft of announcements of investment in road infrastructure, this is both welcome and long overdue. Investment in our roads is vital for boosting productivity in the logistics sector, so critically affected by congestion. According to research…

Tell us a bit about your business? When were you founded, where are you based and how many people do you employ? Tevva Motors Ltd, established in 2013, is a world leader in the development and production of technologies that have the…

February’s light commercial vehicle registrations figures released today by SMMT show a slight dip in numbers, down 2.0%. Although this follows two previous months of growth, any decline is always concerning and we hope that next week’s Budget will reflect…

Tell us a bit about your business? When were you founded, where are you based and how many people do you employ? Founded in September 2009, Exeros Technologies envisions a world in which road safety is a given for all road users…

The commodity areas of interest for Meet the Buyer on 3 June 2020 have been announced. The event is set to take place alongside the Open Forum conference at the Ricoh Arena. The below are some of the commodity areas…

Automechanika Frankfurt is one of the leading global aftermarket trade shows, with the last edition welcoming over 134,000 visitors. SMMT will organise a UK pavilion for British companies to exhibit on at the next edition in September 2020. The UK…

Today we published manufacturing figures for CVs, down -10.7% for January 2020. The numbers are however all relative: the decrease follows a remarkably buoyant January 2019, a seven-year high for the start of the year. As many of you know,…

Tell us a bit about your business? When were you founded, where are you based and how many people do you employ? Penny Hydraulics was founded over in 1978 by a mining engineer John Penny. Back then the company focused on mining…

Several years ago, government devolved responsibility for air quality to local authorities by giving them the power to set up Clean Air Zones. Giving these bodies the means to tackle pollution as it occurs in their area with some funding…

As regular readers will be aware, I have often mentioned in this column how bus ridership has, with some local exceptions, been in long-term decline. As well as being one of the most environmentally friendly forms of motor transport, buses…