RHA welcomes new emissions research
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Green fleet operators looking to improve their carbon performance and increase efficiency could benefit from a new study carried out by researchers at Heriot-Watt University, it has been claimed.
According to the Road Haulage Association (RHA), the new report will help redress perceptions of the industry as a heavy contributor towards climate change and provide new analysis in the debate over emissions.
Researchers discovered that the carbon intensity of freight operations involving HGVs in the UK has fallen by six per cent between 1990 and 2005.
This is despite official figures which recently suggested that the industry's emissions have risen by 11 per cent during that period, and the RHA's director of policy Jack Semple welcomed the new findings.
He said: "[The research has] provided much-needed balance and accuracy to the way we view road haulage, the dominant mode of moving goods and a key engine of our economy."
The RHA also spoke out this week on the recent rise in fuel prices that has seen both petrol and diesel increase "on an almost daily basis", leaving road hauliers facing up to a rise in costs in the coming months.
