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MEPs support lorry safety, but Commission signals backtracking and delay
Progress towards new design and safety standards for lorries will be jeopardised if the European Commission backtracks on safety requirements, environmental and road safety campaigners fear.Transport...
View ArticleFull Parliament votes for safer, cleaner lorries, but faces national roadblocks
The full European Parliament today almost unanimously [1] voted to change rules for lorry cabins that could save hundreds of lives and reduce fuel consumption and emissions. The vote marks the...
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Will EU governments stand in the way of world’s safest lorries?
New rules for lorry design, which campaigners hope will reduce fuel consumption and emissions and save hundreds of lives, have been accepted almost unanimously by the full European Parliament. For the...
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The return of the long-nose lorry
European lorries, and in particular the cabins, look like oversized bricks with flat noses and blunt shapes. That wasn’t always the case. Not so long ago long-nose lorries thundered over European...
View ArticleFrance and Sweden lead call for 8 year prohibition of safer lorries
Representatives of EU Member States today reached an agreement on changing weights and dimensions rules for lorry cabins. The provisional agreement sets a delay of eight years [1] before redesigned...
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Governments want 8-year prohibition of safer lorries
EU transport ministers will this week decide whether to approve changing the design rules for lorry cabins which will make them safer and more fuel efficient. Last month, governments reached a...
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Lorries: 21st-century fleet or dinosaurs on our roads?
Driving Europe’s transport industry in a more sustainable direction is a formidable challenge, not least because it means a fairly fundamental change in the way fairly large industries do their...
View ArticleMinisters reject megatrucks but stall safer lorry designs for 8 more years
EU transport ministers decided today to delay changes to the weights and dimensions rules for lorry cabins, which would allow safer and more fuel efficient lorries to be produced [1]. Under...
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Commission vague about lorry CO2 plans
The Commission’s proposed new lorry carbon dioxide strategy lacks decisive action to reduce the sector’s growing emissions in Europe, green transport campaigners have said. Under the plan, lorry CO2...
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Public support for urban car bans
Measures that limit the movement of cars in urban areas actually attract public support – if they are understood.Transport Mode: CarsLorriesVansRelated issues: Air PollutionClimate Change and...
View ArticleEnding lorries' deadly track record: a matter of (direct) vision
Lorries are involved in 4,200 fatal accidents in Europe every year. Many of the fatalities are vulnerable road users such as cyclists or pedestrians. Poor driver vision and lorry blind spots are a...
View ArticleDirect-vision lorries to save hundreds of lives – study
An 80cm longer cab with a rounded nose, smaller dashboard, expanded glazed areas and a slightly lower driver position could drastically reduce fatal blind spots [1] around the lorry cab, a new study by...
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Reduced-blind-spot lorries to save hundreds of lives – study
Redesigning lorry cabs to reduce blind spots could save hundreds of cyclists’ and pedestrians’ lives every year, according to a new study by a design research team. It found a ‘direct vision’ lorry...
View Article'Climate and energy portfolio needs Commissioner unencumbered by conflicts of...
Transport & Environment's reaction to the Parliament hearing for Commissioner-designate for Climate Action and Energy, Miguel Arias Cañete.Despite three-hours of grilling by MEPs of the...
View ArticlePutting transport in the ETS will hinder job growth, stall emissions cuts –...
Even if carbon prices in Europe’s emissions trading system (ETS) trebled from today’s levels [1], including road transport in the ETS would only reduce oil use and CO2 emissions from transport by 3%...
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Climate and energy targets finally agreed, but what does it mean for transport?
Last week, the European Council composed of heads of states and governments reached an agreement on the EU’s climate and energy targets for post-2020. We ended up with three targets: greenhouse gas...
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Modest climate and energy targets won’t cut it
EU governments last week agreed three modest targets to cut greenhouse gas emissions, increase the share of renewable energy and improve energy efficiency by 2030. Environmental groups said the goals...
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The sweet smell of cartel: why truckmakers oppose cleaner and safer lorries
Margrethe Vestager, European Competition commissioner has announced that she is stepping up the anti-trust and cartel investigation against EU truckmakers. The Commission suspects several truckmakers...
View ArticleHauliers and T&E's open letter to decision-makers on lorry weights and...
Ahead of trilogue negotiations on the European Commission's lorry weights and dimensions proposal, the International Road Transport Union (IRU), representing hauliers, and Transport & Environment...
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MEPs block push to delay safer lorries
MEPs and the European Commission were united in rejecting EU governments’ demand for a 10-year delay in introducing safer, cleaner lorry designs during negotiations this week.Transport Mode:...
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