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February 19, 2019

February 2019 Newsletter

Dear IFRTT subscriber, Hopefully the new year started promising for you! In October I took over from John de Pont as president of the IFRTT. I want to thank him for having led the IFRTT so well and knowledgeably. There are plenty of challenges and developments in trucking that endorse the value of a global community like the IFRTT. It is precisely the diverse expertise and various professional functions within the community that make the IFRTT valuable as a platform for exchanging knowledge and experience. There are two current leading publications from the International Transport Forum of the OECD that deserves our attention: Policies to Extend the Life of Road Assets. By mitigating deterioration caused by trucks (date of publication: 20 December 2018) and High Capacity Transport: Towards Efficient, Safe and Sustainable Road Freight (date of publication: 19 February 2019). Both reports are in line with the latest insights about...
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