News / 'Road trains' to ease driver shortage? UK has the technology, 'but not the roads'

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28/09/2021

Hauliers have suggested the UK should consider allowing “road trains” to address the driver shortage, but hauliers claim this could be “fatal”.

Increasingly a common sight in Australia, ’road trains’ – multiple trailers linked to the one cab – measure more than 150ft in length and ...

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