Longer lorries are ready to roll, but are they really a climate solution?

Cecilia Keating
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Longer lorries are ready to roll, but are they really a climate solution?

Calls are mounting for ministers to deliver a more detailed plan to fully decarbonise road haulage, as government touts legalisation of longer lorries as a climate win

Trucking decarbonisation is in the spotlight, as retailers and consumer goods firms around the world look to deliver on net zero goals and governments contend with squaring the year-on-year growth of the...

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