The Road Haulage Association’s third annual National Lorry Week runs from 11-16 September and a busy schedule of events will be taking place across the UK.

North East businesses large and small are showing off the best of the region’s talent in Gateshead today at Heathrow’s first ever Business Summit North East.

The RHA has won a significant concession from tax officials on Overnight Allowances for lorry drivers.

In the second year of Heathrow’s Race the Plane charity challenge, 27 teams of cyclists are hoping to race 3,546 miles faster than the time it takes for an Air Canada Boeing 777-300 to reach Toronto. This year’s event has already raised over £94,000 for Heathrow’s charity partners.

Philip Hammond has said the Northern Powerhouse is "at the top of" the Government's agenda, in a fresh hint it may receive a funding boost in the Autumn Budget. 

Over 120 sites from across Britain have applied to help build an expanded Heathrow, an overwhelming show of support for the nation’s most critical infrastructure project.

Heathrow CEO John Holland-Kaye has commented in response to the Government's consultation on landing cards.

Alstom has started work to repaint the 56-strong Pendolino fleet of Class 390 ‘tilting’ trains, which are used by Virgin on the West Coast Main Line.

The prospect of heavy goods vehicles travelling on motorways, operating through wireless technology, looks set to become a reality thanks to £8.1m government funding for trials.

Jeremy Corbyn has slapped down one of his frontbenchers after they said female-only train carriages may be needed to tackle a rise in sex attacks.

Driverless lorries are to be trialled on UK roads before the end of next year, the Government has announced.

Scotland’s transport minister has said a video promoted by pro-Jeremy Corbyn group Momentum condemning the SNP's railways policy borders on "xenophobic”.

The Government should scrap air passenger duty for those under 30 in a bid to recapture the youth vote from Labour, a thinktank has said.

After another night of violence in Calais the Road Haulage Association is deeply concerned that the lives of UK bound truckers are now at greater risk than ever.

Chris Grayling has told northern political leaders that it is their responsibility to produce plans for new transport networks across the country. 

Theresa May has hailed a deal to sell red double-decker buses to Mexico as evidence that the UK is a “great, global trading nation”.

Labour MPs have hit out at shadow minister Chris Williamson after he said women-only train carriages may be needed to tackle a rise in sex attacks.

A Labour frontbencher has said women-only train carriages may be needed to tackle a rise in sex attacks.

George Osborne has challenged the Government to prove it is “truly committed” to regional regeneration by backing high-speed rail between northern cities. 

HS2 will not only be the future rail network for the UK, it will also be the training ground for our future workforce, says Alstom HS2 Director Jason Baldock.

The Road Haulage Association has expressed reservations after the government has said it does not want any border posts between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland in its new position paper on Brexit - it suggests a ‘new customs partnership’ or a ‘highly streamlined customs arrangement’.

Road Haulage Association director of policy and public affairs Rod McKenzie who was in Downing Street for the announcement said: “Ministers said the plans would mean the ‘free-est and most frictionless possible trade’ with Europe. This could include a ‘temporary customs union’ after Brexit to prevent border problems.”

Atkins, one of the world's leading design, engineering and project management organisations, has been awarded a £29-million contract for the resignalling of the Norwich-Yarmouth-Lowestoft route by Network Rail.

Millions of rail users are to face a “staggering” fare rise of 3.6% next January.