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

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 offer up to 180 tonnes of cargo capacity.

“It is a solution that could be implemented pretty quickly, and would allow a single driver to deliver two to three trailers’ worth of goods in a single ...