The EU is overhauling the rules for road transporters. The changes mean better working conditions for drivers, stricter rules to fight illegal practices and  smart technologies to enforce the rules. The result will be a safer and fairer industry.

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Updating road transport rules

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Service stations don't get their deliveries."

Today, he's making a relatively short haul

The European Parliament wants to improve their rights

and ensure better living and working conditions.

the driver can't take them any more in the truck.

that sometimes the drivers are really living in their trucks

to overhaul how haulage companies operate.

Transport companies based in one EU country

will have to ensure their lorries return

preventing them from operating only lucrative routes

The changes will prevent systematic cabotage

to gain commercial access to certain countries,

bypassing legal obligations in areas like

"Some companies are really using drivers

If you wanted to control these companies

Because it was only one post box in a building."

which record every detail of a lorry's journey in real time

from the driver's breaks and the vehicle's cargo

to its location, including border-crossings.

which increasingly make cross-border deliveries.