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Saturday, 16 October 2021

BBC News

• Solihull students' driverless technology trainingStudents are appreciating an opportunity to get hands-on experience of the technology.
• Self-driving Waymo cars clog up dead-end San Francisco streetWaymo says its automated vehicles are following traffic orders when they enter the dead-end street.
• COP26: How will road closures affect Glasgow?Travel in Glasgow will be
• Pump prices for petrol and diesel are near a record highAverage petrol prices are just 2p off their record high from April 2012, says the RAC.

Financial Times

• UK government criticised over move to relax foreign truck driver rulesRoad Haulage Association says proposed changes would sabotage domestic industry

The Guardian

• Students solar-powered camper van turns heads on 1,800-mile road tripDutch team designed and built two-person van with kitchen, bed, shower, loo and range of up to 450 miles a day. A team of students from the Netherlands are due to complete an 1,800-mile (3,000km) road trip across western Europe in a solar-powered camper van that they designed and built themselves.
• What is cabotage and why have UK road freight rules changed?Grant Shapps has announced policy aimed at foreign lorry drivers to help ease supply chain problems. Foreign lorry drivers to be allowed to make more UK deliveries. Ministers have announced plans to allow foreign lorry drivers to make an unlimited number of pick-ups and drop-offs within a fixed period in the UK in a move aimed at tackling supply chain problems. Announcing the rule change, the transport secretary, Grant Shapps, said: We don't want abotage to sabotage our industry.

Times Online

• Cabotage rule relaxation ‘taking work from British HGV drivers’ [subscription]Tensions between the haulage industry and government escalated yesterday after ministers announced plans to make it more attractive for foreign companies to send lorries to the UK.
• Motorists could pay per mile to fill black hole in public finances [subscription]Road pricing is also not expected to feature in a string of announcements planned for next week on the government’s net zero strategy in the run-up to the Cop26 climate change conference in Glasgow.

Other Regional Press

• Journey times mean most people will choose car over train, north rail campaign group is toldA rail campaign group that criticised Highland Council over its support for major road upgrading has been told that most people will continue to travel by car north of Inverness because of the much shorter journey times.
• A66 and A1 link road faces long wait to become reality as travel official warns of funding roadblockThere is currently 'no logical funding route' for the scheme
• Motorway camera change means drivers could face £100 finesHighways England has said automatic motorway cameras can now catch drivers using closed lanes

Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport

• GM Clean Air Zone Financial Support Scheme for HGVs to launch in NovemberA financial support scheme to upgrade or retrofit Heavy Goods Vehicles (HGVs) to comply with the Greater Manchester-wide Clean Air Zone will open to applications this Autumn.   Greater Manchester-registered HGVs will be able to apply for funding support from 30 November, if approved by the GM Air Quality Administration Committee this week.    The Clean Air Zone, launching on 30 May 2022, is a key component of Greater Manchester’s green revolution, helping to tackle the problem of air pollution, which contributes towards at least 1,200 deaths per year in the city-region. &n...